Available online at http://www.journalijdr.com ISSN: 2230-9926 International Journal of Development Research Vol. 09, Issue, 11, pp. 31739-31743, November, 2019 RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL FESTIVALS IN CONTEMPORARY BAHIA: MEMORY AND CULTURAL FORMATION *1Tamara Chéquer Cotrim and 2Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão 1Mestre em Memória: Linguagem e Sociedade, da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia – PPGMLS UESB-Brasil 2PhD in Social Sciences, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Human Sciences of the State University of Southwest of Bahia (UESB) and in the Graduate Program in Memory: Language and Society of the State University of the Southwest of Bahia (UESB), Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil, Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: This article presents observations about the conditions of possibilities for the execution, Article History: ReceivedReceived 12xxxxxx,th August 2019, 2019 structuring and continuity of two cinematographic and audiovisual exhibition actions, from the ReceivedReceived inin revisedrevised formform state of Bahia, Brazil, being: the “Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema” [Panorama 26xxxxxxxx,th September 201,9 2019 Internacional Thing of Cinema] and the “Mostra Cinema Conquista” [Conquista Cinema AcceptedAccepted 09xxxxxxxxxth October, ,20 201919 Festival], carried out from 2002 and 2004, in Salvador and in Vitória da Conquista, respectively. PublishedPublished onlineonline 30xxxxxth November, 2019 , 2019 By analyzing documentary data, interviews and participation on respective actions, we start from the hypothesis that they were not only sustained by material and objective conditions, related to Key Words: the period’s economical and political conjunctures, linked to the structural transformations Cinema, Exhibitions, Festivals, occurred from the Brazilian Cinema recapture, but also to symbolic matters, from cultural Memory, Cultural Formation. formation processes, perceived from the comprehension of their makers’ formation trajectories, the paths they have made for the events, from local conditions and networking articulations in which they partook. It does such seeking theoretical methodological support on sociologist Norbert Elias’ The Symbol Theory and his concept of “configuration”, as well as on Pierre Bourdieu’s praxiological theory that considered interaction processes and the knowledge generated by them, observing human expressions in the modeling of practices. Copyright © 2019, Tamara Chéquer Cotrim and Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Citation: Tamara Chéquer Cotrim and Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão. 2019. “Film and audiovisual festivals in contemporary Bahia: memory and cultural formation”, International Journal of Development Research, 09, (11), 31739-31743. INTRODUCTION possible practices of cinematographic consumption in alternative spaces to those of the big exhibition market, enable The theme dealt with in this article came to light after the regimes of professionalization and cultural formation (VIEIRA unprecedented research done on the alternative exhibition and GUSMÃO, 2017). From this work arose the concerns that cinema circuit to commercial movie theaters, more resulted in the research later developed, already within the specifically, film festivals and exhibitions in Bahia, a study scope of the academic master's degree, in the research line in initially dealt with in the scientific initiation research project “Memory, Cinema and Cultural Formation Processes” of the linked to the Bachelor of Cinema and Audiovisual at the State Postgraduate Program in “Memory: Language and Society” of University of Southwest Bahia, titled: “Alternative Exhibition the same institution. In this instance, the intention was to Circuits: A Mapping from Incentive Policies for Film Clubs understand the conditions that allowed the continuity of two of and Film Festivals in Contemporary Bahia”. On the occasion, the events of audiovisual diffusion, which continue to happen the research identified the holding, between 2003 and 2014, of periodically throughout the years being held in the state, which 48 film festivals in Bahia, whose profiles, structures and are: “Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema” [Panorama dimensions were described and systematized in a previously Internacional Thing of Cinema]1 that happens in the city of unpublished information panel. It was found that, through the increase of public funding, some of these events were consolidated and started to appear in the cultural calendar of 1 “Panorama International Coisa de Cinema” is a festival that exhibits and awards cinematographic and audiovisual works, which began in 2002, in the the state, producing creative experiences that, besides making city of Salvador, by the initiative of its coordinator Claudio Marques. It has an 31740 Tamara Chéquer Cotrim et al. Film and audiovisual festivals in contemporary Bahia: memory and cultural formation Salvador and the “Mostra Cinema Conquista” [Conquista personality characteristics that guide his actions in the social Cinema Festival]2 that takes place in the city of Vitória da and cultural world the guidelines of your choices, combined Conquista. The focus of the study turned to these exhibition with the programs of the initial ten years of these events, in events because they inaugurated the practice in Bahia in the order to understand the processes of cultural formation, the 2000s, emerged in the years 2002 and 2004, standing out for different formative pathways of individuals, the generation of their relevance, as they are events scheduled3 by the Bahia knowledge, based on the perception, incorporation and State Department of Culture, and that total more than 10 expression in the social world of certain gestures learned in the editions. According to the data collected in the preliminary encounters and relationships between them. For this, we take research, it was observed that, although these events arose in as a methodological reference the symbolic theory (1994c) of the same period, sharing a conjuncture of structural, political sociologist Norbert Elias, as well as the notion of configuration and economic aspects, including favorable, in the same (1994b), associated with the concept of habitus (2009) federative entity and having similar general characteristics, developed by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, seeking to draw their profiles, that is, the way in which they presented their an arrangement that gives to understand the strategies created activities, differed visibly. From this fact came the hypothesis by people to deal effectively and productively in face of the that its directors made different arrangements, also forged demands and obstacles arising from the dynamics of the social according to the difficulties and opportunities presented in world. Thus, we aim to understand how the practices of the each context, so that the events could effectively arise and individuals mentioned above took place, analyzing on what continue to exist over the years, something we believed to basis they are based and under which symbols are based. For reflect on how the events present themselves, that is, also this we turn the focus of our interests to the learning about sculpting their shape and profile. Thus, thinking about the cinema that took place along its formation trajectories, that is, material and also symbolic conditions of realization and the accumulation of knowledge of the lived experiences, which structuring, it was possible to elaborate the research question, we believe constitute these practices. Ultimately, it is worth which concerns the relations that were established, and the noting that we consider the individual as part of social knowledge generated through them, which allowed the processes, in constant movement in the social conjuncture of realization of festivals and film shows in the state of Bahia in the time, also contributing to the social dynamic as a whole. the 21st century. This is because, we already noticed, in the previous research, the indications that these exhibition MATERIALS AND METHODS activities were informed by symbols incorporated by their directors, through the intergenerational transmission of The analysis of the object presented above is anchored in an experiences and knowledge. In addition, even though their empirical research work that seeks to understand, in a deeper actions are conditioned by the political and economic context, way, the social practices of cinematographic and audiovisual a situation that intends to choose, we observe the different diffusion that occur in alternative exhibition circuits, that is, in ways of creation in the spaces of the possible. exhibitions and/or film festivals. It takes into account, more generally, the Brazilian panorama of the audiovisual festival In view of this, we proposed to study the possibilities of the circuit, which according to information published in 2011 in existence of “Panorama” and the “Conquista Festival” under the report entitled Sectorial Panel of Audiovisual Festivals, the bias of memory, because inserted in this field it would be based on indicators from 2007, 2008 and 2009, is one of the possible to consider not only certain objective and structural most important