With the presentation of the Grand Prize to the work “Dos sillas”, under the direction of José Ñamandú, the 17th edition of the National Audiovisual Festival “Por primera vez” dedicated to the promotion and visualization of the creation of young Cuban filmmakers culminated in Holguin.
The jury, made up of Lázaro Alderete, president of the National Federation of Film Clubs, Lino Verdecia, film critic and filmmaker Osnel Ferrer, decided on Saturday night to award the material due to its power of synthesis, good use of cinematographic resources and the photographic proposal made in the art direction.
For its part, the Grand Prize in the pitch contest went to the documentary “You are someone’s son”, by Franks Daniel Linares, for being a necessary film about the resistance of a group of artists that has marked the history of contemporary theater in the country.
Franks Daniel Linares, in statements to ACN, said that the material is about “Teatro del Espacio Interior”, a group from Camagüey to which he belonged, which in May celebrates 35 years of founding, and which has influenced his way of creating.
He also assured that the current edition of the contest became a place where young people interested in the seventh art have been able to create and feel safe with those projects that at some point they gave up for lost.
Therefore the city of Holguin hosted for five days the 17th edition of the National Audiovisual Festival Por Primera vez, where young filmmakers from all over the country had the opportunity to exchange with important figures of Cuban cinema such as Fernando Pérez, Jorge Molina, Jorge Martínez and René de la Cruz.
With information from Agencia Cubana de Noticias/ Translated by Radio Angulo
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