Awards 2024
For 5 years has consolidated the Usina itself as a fertile ground for the exchange and cinematographic creation through a common language: Spanish.
Olimpia Pont Cháfer, Sophia Mocorrea and Maren Schmitt, the international jury of this fifth edition, awarded the script AGAR by Florencia Almirón.
The script tells the story of Agar, a brickyard worker who develops a strange illness. Focusing on the mechanized nature of physical labor, the author explores the implications of the exploitation of natural resources, creating a disturbing rural fable.
According to the Jury, it is a script that "impacts sensorially from the moment it is read. Through an effective mix of genres ranging from drama to science fiction, documentary and experimental, the author brings us closer to the important theme of the human-nature binomial.”
Florencia Almirón is a visual artist based in Berlin. She holds a degree from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes UNA (Argentina) and a Master’s degree from the Dutch Art Institute ArteZ (Holland). She has received the Kunstlerkontakte Scholarship from the IFA Institute für Auslandsbezhieungen, UNESCO Aschberg and DAAD, among others. She has shown her work at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano MALBA Puertos (Buenos Aires), Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart) and Kunstverein Hildesheim, among others.
According to the author, “in times of increasing contaminated land, the script crosses imaginations of the past and catastrophes of the present as a portal for more habitable futures to emerge.”
Florencia will receive advice for the production of her short film from Catalina Flórez -urua Films-, Juan Castro -Latin Quarter- and Lara Franzetti.
