Video 'The Bang-Bang Theory', the narrator of Medellín (Colombia) Mauro Franco has won the second edition of the international contest 'short Story. " In just over two minutes, Franco models narration refers traditions with contemporary shapes rewrite cinematic texts and stories, creating a history of temporal sequences of responses to violence, met with a modern metaphor that faced with injustice. "Story in short is an initiative of the International Storytelling Network and Writers School in order to convert new technologies into an ally of the oral tradition.
This second edition of the event 225 showed videos of storytellers in Europe and Latin America (with a significant participation of English storytelling, Colombia and Argentina). The jury made a first selection of eleven videos finalists from which the winner was chosen. These videos can be viewed on the contest website: Http://www.cuentoencorto.com/
For the award, the jury assessed the staging, the literary, expressive gestures, voice inflections and creativity and innovation used storytelling, innovation and technical resources of the video camera and editing.
Finally, the narrator of living in Medellín and Bogotá, Mauro Franco, won for his piece "Bang Theory - Bang 'of the Jury noted that "links the cumulative models of narrative traditions and jingles, so common in stories for very young children, to contemporary forms of rewriting texts and film narratives, finally creating a history of temporal sequences of responses to situations inflicted violence, which is resolved with an excellent modern metaphor facing injustice. "
Members of the Jury, composed of school teachers and coordinators writers and members of the International Storytelling "was awarded a special mention for its high quality the video-story finalists 'Alligator Man', the also Colombian Fernando Cardenas, based in Buenos Aires.
videos The other nine finalists are the narrators
convert new technologies into an ally of the oral tradition is the goal of the contest 'tale short', the first contest stories organized through the video distribution system in Internet Youtube.com. "Story in short 'summons writers storytellers around the world to write, perform and record stories theme and with a duration not exceeding five minutes of footage.
videos The other nine finalists are the narrators
- MIiguel Ángel Tenorio (Mexico) Video under the uniform.
- Maria Inês Mendonça (Brazil) Video El Mono Old.
- Alexis Herrera (Guatemala) Video 'll tell you what I am.
- Marissa Vallejo (Mexico) Video Amadis De Anise, Amadis Quail. Text Francisco Hinojosa)
- Maria Lucia Miranda Miranda (Brazil) Video Who will help the bad wolf. Text Walther Moreira Santos Moreira Santos).
- C arlos Map s (Vilaltella) (Argentina) Video Little ghost.
- Grimland Inés (Argentina) Video Gauchos and Mitzvah. Isaiah Text Leo Kremer
- Rataus Giselle (Argentina) Video Waiting. I hope.
- Ivan Perez Arguedas (Spain) Video El Tomate. Text Eva M ª Sánchez Córcoles
convert new technologies into an ally of the oral tradition is the goal of the contest 'tale short', the first contest stories organized through the video distribution system in Internet Youtube.com. "Story in short 'summons writers storytellers around the world to write, perform and record stories theme and with a duration not exceeding five minutes of footage.
This initiative is a School of Writers ( http://www.escueladeescritores.com/ ) and the International Storytelling ( http://www.cuentacuentos.eu / ), an organization of more than eight storytellers from 45 countries on five continents. "A story belongs to the magical land of childhood, but is an activity that triggers more intense creativity, imagination, and intercultural communication, "explains one of the founders of the International Storytelling Network, the writer Enrique Paez Madrid.
Páez, along with thirteen other narrators, founded the International Storytelling Network in September 2009 to "keep alive the legacy of Scheherazade, the heroine of 'The Thousand and One noches'-in a time in which orality is being displaced from interpersonal relations to new technologies. " Writers School, which collaborates with the International Storytelling from birth, and who teaches building through Internet literary past twelve years, took up the challenge of organizing a contest in which new technologies were just serving the ancient tradition of storytelling.