Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MAYARA BEZERRA JERONIMO DA SILVA BARRETO

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STUDENT : MAYARA BEZERRA JERONIMO DA SILVA BARRETO
DATE: 26/04/2022
TIME: 18:00
LOCAL: Online
TITLE:

THE MOVIE THEATER IS A MEETING: THE AUDIODESCRIPTION IN THE URBANCINE FESTIVAL

KEY WORDS:

Audiodescription; Cultural accessibility; Visual impairment; Movie Theater/Cinema and Festival.

PAGES: 40
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The concept of communicational and cultural accessibility has been gaining ground in
debates with the social networks’ popularization. People with disabilities have been
giving visibility to their rights, especially those related to incentive policies of fostering
the inclusion of people with disabilities and their consequent access to cultural goods
and products. In the case of visually impaired people, audio description, which is an
intersemiotic translation that translates images into words, is one of the resources that
allows the right to information, equal opportunities, and the training of more critical
citizens with a keen sense of observation. In this context, “How to make the movie
theater a meeting?” is the question that challenges cultural and audiovisual filmmakers
in order to provide visually impaired people with participation in this meeting. In this
way, thinking about new ways of seeing and making cinema, that reorganize the
existing structures and that does not focus only on the parameter of clairvoyance, is the
challenge that arises. We understand that audiovisual filmmakers need to be aware of
accessible communication resources so that, from there, they can begin to tread a new
path of consumption and production of art and culture. The study therefore proposes
experimentation in an accessible cultural context, focusing on the visually impaired
audience, in order to propose the construction of a film festival that contributes to the
promotion of accessible practices in audiovisual, through audiodescription. We chose as
a field of investigation the third edition of the Urbancine film festival, held in 2021,
organized by filmmakers from the city of Natal and which, due to the pandemic, took
place hybridly, with online and itinerant display, presenting national and local short
films. The festival also had a program of livestream with themes that discussed the
experiences of the visually impaired people with the movie theater and a conversation
with the directors of the displays. The subjects-participants of the research will be the
filmmakers of the audiovisual collective and visually impaired spectators. This research
is part of the qualitative-based paradigm, and we chose to make use of intervention research with reference to Bakhtin's epistemological reflections. As instruments for the construction and analysis of data, we activated participant observation as we collaboratively built the festival's accessibility, in addition to holding collective interviews and using the field diary. At the end, we will systematize a documentary, as a way of sharing the experiences of building communicational accessibility, focusing on the audio description of the festival.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149574 - JEFFERSON FERNANDES ALVES
Interna - 2313711 - FLAVIA ROLDAN VIANA
Externa à Instituição - MARTHA MILENE FONTENELLE CARVALHO
Externo à Instituição - EDUARDO CARDOSO