Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar RomeroSeptember 17, 2019

Equinox Film Festival

Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar RomeroSeptember 17, 2019

Stories of our Environment

Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero

From September 20th to September 22nd, on the weekend of the Autumn equinox, I will be part of the jury of Equinox Mountain Environmental Film Festival, an environmental film festival organised by Ninth Wave Global in partnership with Levity Mountain. This two-day event is taking place in Manchester, Vermont, and will be the culmination of a grassroots effort to find and share stories of our environment and our role within it. Alongside the screening of the selected films, there will also be talks, workshops, hikes and an array of events that celebrate the community and environment.

Ninth Wave Global is an organisation, community and think-tank working to re-imagine exploration and generate space for investigation and positive change in environmental and community settings. I have been collaborating with them since 2016.

Levity Mountain is a family-run organic farm, homestead, and symbol of community engagement in the town of Manchester, Vermont. The Levis family have helped shape the organic movement and have given the residents of Manchester a place to unite for the first Equinox Mountain Film Festival.

The other judges of the festival are Garry and Ross Ferrier, an award-winning independent filmmaking partnership based in Edinburgh and Inverness, Scotland, and Michael Ellenbogen, a film producer based in Vermont.

We will post a summary after the festival highlighting selected films from the festival.

Banner image by Dragos Gontariu

Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero

Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero studied Audiovisual Communication BA (Hons) at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. During those years he was awarded an Erasmus grant that allowed him to study Film and Communication at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. He lived and worked in Lisbon thanks to a Leonardo Da Vinci grant and in London. Gonzaga has also developed his work in the UK, Spain, France, Morocco, India and Malta. He has exhibited in Spain, India and the USA. He is currently the Co-director of A LA LUZ, an arts organisation that focuses on documenting contemporary art with film and photography and disseminating it to a global audience. He also works with ‘Joya: arte + ecología‘, a non-profit arts organisation based at Cortijada Los Gázquez, in the Sierra María-Los Vélez natural park (Almería, Andalucía), where he collaborates with artist and scientists from all over the world. Gonzaga also collaborates in audiovisual projects as director of photography and film editor.