MICEscola

MICEscola is a MICE’s educational project focused on introducing secondary school students to the fundamentals of cinema and ethnographic method, and using them as tools for collecting the memory of the past and the present.

Its purpose is to provide students with the necessary technical and narrative tools to read up on and narrate their vision of the world through short films created with easy-to-access and easy-to-use devices.

The programme, oriented to secondary school students, is supervised by the DEAC—the Education and Cultural Action Department— of the Museo do Pobo Galego and the filmmakers Coral Piñeiro and Bruno Arias. In this MICEscola third edition, the participating schools are the Secondary School from Oroso (Oroso, Galicia), the Secondary School from Cacheiras (Teo, Galicia), and the Multilingual All-through School Cernadas de Castro (Lousame, Galicia).

Over the course of several on-site sessions at the schools, they will work on different aspects of the creative process: the choice of a topic, the writing of a script, the elaboration of a directing proposal, the filming, and the editing of the final piece, which will be screened at the Museo as part of the extended programming of the 20^th MICE.

Short films created in the MICEscola during 19th MICE

CORAL PIÑEIRO

Graduated in audiovisual communication from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has collaborated in developing documentaries such as Eu máis eu, which explores the effects of loneliness and isolation in rural areas of Galicia; Única, a personal take on the notion of identity as someone who was born a twin. Piñeiro has also participated in the creation of Dores, a documentary on concentration camps in Galicia that first emerged as a final assignment for her bachelor’s degree and which she developed in collaboration with her then classmates Laura Piñeiro (who was the screenwriter and editor of the project), Maite Martínez (screenwriter and producer), and Clara Miñán (screenwriter and camera operator). Dores earned Piñeiro the Best Documentary Award at SOCINE, a university film festival based in Valladolid and devoted to social cinema. In the domain of fiction, she was part of the crew that created Desencontro, a short film recognized with the Fasmuvis Award at the Ourense International Film Festival.

BRUNO ARIAS

Director, scriptwriter and film editor of Os espazos en branco, his first feature film, released in 2023. He holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2016-2020). He currently works as film editor and graphic designer in different projects, and he is an instructor for MICEscola.