PROJECT MANAGER &

LOCAL COORDINATOR

Project Manager: Ambulante

Ambulante is a non-profit organization that focuses on supporting and promoting documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation. Founded in Mexico in 2005 by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Pablo Cruz and Elena Fortes, Ambulante brings documentary films and training programs to places where they are rarely available in order to create a participative, informed and critical public, cultivate new forms of expression, and encourage debate in Mexico and abroad.

 

Each year, Ambulante organizes an international film festival that tours Mexico for three months. Ambulante presents over 100 documentaries, invites more than 100 guests from Mexico and abroad, and holds screenings in over 150 venues. Ambulante’s objective is to promote documentary film within Mexico and reach a broader audience by screening films in a wide array of venues.

Ambulante is currently the largest documentary film festival in Mexico. It includes film screenings, workshops, talks, seminars, symposiums, networking panels, documentary theater, drive-in cinema, and a showcase of documentaries at the Ibero-American Music Festival Vive Latino held in Mexico City. Ambulante opens up different ways of experiencing and understanding documentary film. It is a non-competitive film festival, and over 60% of its program is free.

 

Additionally, Ambulante Beyond aims to train new filmmakers from Latin America who have limited access to the resources that would allow them to share their stories with a wider audience. Through modular workshops designed to meet the specific needs of its participants, Ambulante Beyond fosters independent production and alternative forms of aesthetic expression so that stories can be told from a unique cultural perspective without being constrained by conventional storytelling models.

Vision: Promote documentary cinema as a conscious-building tool and safeguard the democratization of culture. Uphold the potential of documentary film as a form of independent expression that contributes to social transformation. Traverse geographical, political, cultural and social borders in order to open new channels of expression and reflection.

 

Mission: Ambulante is an autonomous and nonprofit organization that travels to areas with little exhibition and development of documentary films, with the aim of promoting cultural exchange and encouraging the formation of a participative, critical and informed perspective in spectators. We also support Mexican filmmakers and aim to discover emerging talent by offering grants and fellowships that contribute to the development of new cinematic contents. Likewise, we organize cross-disciplinary events, develop audiovisual production and cultural management abilities, as well as foster permanent film exhibition programs.

 

Strategic aim 1. Promote a documentary film exhibition model that is replicable in diverse contexts in order to reach and create new audiences that are participative and critical, by means of cross-disciplinary activities, for diverse sectors of society, prioritizing communities with little access to documentary film.

Strategic aim 2. Discover new cinematic talents and promote the training of Mexican filmmakers and the impact of their work in both national and international markets.