On Friday the award will be given for the documentary "Fue en la calle" produced by Unicanal and the UNR Gender and Sexualities Area.
The first chapter of the series Fue en la calle, “Las chicas de la Plaza” will receive the Juana Manso award this Friday. The production of Unicanal and the Gender and Sexualities Department of the UNR was highlighted for its originality and the quality in the treatment of the subject.
The delivery of the Juana Manso awards to journalistic productions that promote the rights of women and dissidence will take place this Friday, March 17 at 19:XNUMX p.m., at the City Museum.
The activity is organized by the Municipality of Rosario to recognize the work of communicators in the country in the graphic categories, social networks, photojournalism, radio, advertising and television.
It was in the street
Plaza Libertad, for years considered a red zone in the city and the meeting and departure point for the Pride parade, was the center and scene of a key event in the history of the diversity movement: the removal of the Chief of Police of Rosario in 1998, based on the complaints of transvestites and trans organized to make visible the persecution and police harassment.
The jury highlights the originality and quality in the treatment of the theme: “The work shows an excellent aesthetic presentation, in which interviews and archival documentation are linked, giving narrative value. Furthermore, it is made from various visual resources and with great technical quality in terms of lighting, photography, camera effects, editing, production and text highlighting. Finally, the importance of collective work is highlighted and that it is the Universidad Nacional de Rosario through its Gender Area together with UNICANAL who commit to the realization of this type of productions.”
Hosted by the journalist Martín Paoltroni, the documentary features the testimonies of Karla Ojeda (Trans Rosario Travesti Community), Pedro Paradiso Sottile (Arco Iris Collective. Equality Foundation), Mariana Antonelli (Arcoiris Collective Lawyer) and Natalia Cocciarini (Historian of the Program University of Sexual Diversity, UNR). The material was produced by Unicanal, the audiovisual platform of the UNR and the Gender and Sexualities Area of the university.
The production is directed by Mario Armas, content coordination by Victoria Noya Neirot and Lucia Rodríguez, production by Belen Bertero and Rocío Luna, camera by Mario Armas and Camilo Postiglione, and post production by Dana Tameron and Fabián Gallego.
Last year the Unicanal production "Mujeres con Historia" had been distinguished with the same award for considering it "a very good documentary about women who, from various spaces of struggle, had a positive impact in different territories of Santa Fe in the empowerment of women in pursuit of equity and for considering it a training tool for university students, which aims to disseminate women's stories”.
The awardees
In addition to the award in the Audiovisual Productions category for "Las chicas de la plaza" from the series Fue en la calle de Unicanal, UNR, a special mention is given to "Collective Programs" from the Uner Medios Platform.
In the category Content on Social Networks, the winner is Paula Turina from Lectora Voracious. In this category there are two special mentions, one for Ivana Mondelo for the newsletter "Always a Cyborg, never a goddess" and another for Micaela Garbarini for the Instagram profile "Stay calm".
In the Photojournalism category, a special mention will be given to Luba Balcarcel for “Trans Unionism”. And in the Podcast category, a special mention was also awarded to Carmen Asenjo for “Viva la moda”.
The Graphic and Digital Productions category had two award-winning stories. One is "Las Visitantes: historia de mujeres que cuidan a los presos", an integral journalistic work carried out by Carina Bazzoni, María Laura Cicerchia and Celina Mutti Lovera from the newspaper La Capital. The other is “Resistances and Territories” for Chicas Poderosas Argentinas, directed by Guadalupe Sánchez Granel, María Fernanda Romain, Jorgelina Hiba, Laura Charro, Sol Oliver.
Special mentions in the Graphic and Digital Productions category went to Virginia Giacosa. "The imperfect mother" in REA Magazine; for Lucía Ruggeri, “Girls' mobilities are not a girl thing”, for the “Circulantes” website; and for Ludmila López and Bianca Forconi "It's not love, it's work: four stories of domestic employment" for Rosario3.
In the Radio Productions category there were two winners: Julia Moscaltelli for the Gender and Diversity Segment in the program "Nobody is perfect"; and Cintia Mignone for the Report Rethinking journalistic practices, in the gender column of the program “Te la resumo” on Radio Nacional Santa Fe. In this category, the special mention goes to Lorena Panzerini, Gabriela Di Cicco, Lilian Alba from “Les impertinentes ” on the Bichosraros.com site.
Journalist: Micaela Pereyra.