Background
Punto de Vista has an antecedent in the Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival, a festival celebrating audiovisual creations held from 1993 to 2002. Videos, computer animation, and auteur documentary films had a prominent place in this festival; there even was a competition for them. In 1998, CD-ROM and Internet creations were added to the competition, in an attempt to include the new artistic languages that emerged from the use of new technologies.
The Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival welcomed artists working in the new media as well as programmers and scholars who reflected about the changes in the industry. In 1996 and 1998, two series of meetings were held -Video Meetings in Pamplona and Video/AlterMedia Meetings in Pamplona-, gathering specialists like Eugeni Bonet, Lourdes Cilleruelo, Marcelo Expósito, Gabriel Villota, Carles Ameller, Laura Baigorri, and María Pallier, among others.
Directed by Ana Herrera, the Festival was under the artistic guidance of Rafael Baliña in its first four editions.
In 2002, the Festival was redesigned and the Punto de Vista project was conceived. The last editions of the Navarra Audiovisual Creation Festival included retrospectives that paved the way for the new Festival to explore the territory where the documentary and the experimental converge. Carlos Muguiro was the curator of the retrospectives dedicated to José Val del Omar (1997) and Alexander Sokurov (1999). In 2000, the Festival focused on Chris Marker, with a retrospective curated by Mercedes Alvarez. Finally, in 2002, the festival introduced in Spain, thanks to Efrén Cuevas, a retrospective dedicated to Alan Berliner.
The year 2005 marked the beginning of a new stage: the Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival was created. Just like its predecessor, Punto de Vista was sponsored by the Directorate-General for Culture of the Government of Navarra. In the period 2010-2014 was organized by the public foundation INAAC
After the Punto de Vista festival had been held uninterruptedly for seven editions, from 2005 until 2011, it was agreed to make Punto de Vista biennial in subsequent editions. Therefore, the festival would be held every two years. In order not to disappear from the map for 24 consecutive months, the management body of the festival decided to develop seminars every other year (2012 and 2014). In 2015, Punto de Vista will be yearly again in a edition organized by the Government of Navarra until 2018, when it began to be fully organized by NICDO.
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