The workshop
In 1980, the Ateliers Varan set up a Super-8 workshop in the film school of Mexico, the very first time for a school which trained students in 35 mm feature filmmaking.
The programme
In 1980, a workshop was created at the Mexico Cinema School (Department of Cinema Studies of Mexico’s National Autonomous University). It was the very first time a Super-8 Documentary film course was taking place in the school which traditionally trained students in 35 mm feature filmmaking.
A dozen students enrolled, happy to be perfectly free to film real characters by themselves – firemen, prostitutes, priests… Each film, because of its approach and singular viewpoint, was able to describe a certain reality in Mexican society of the time.
The documentary in your own home
Find out about new films by sifting through our media library to find all the films made in our workshops since 1978.
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