The work of Cuban film director Fernando Pérez will be honored during the 17th edition of the National Audiovisual Festival Por Primera Vez that will take place in the city of Holguin from February 19 to 23.
Maylán Heredia, head of the promotion department of the Provincial Film Center, commented at a press conference that the event will have the presence of the Cuban creator, who will also teach a workshop on film direction and during the opening day the feature film he authored “El mundo de Nelsito” will be screened.
He expressed that the director Jorge Molina will also attend the event, who will talk about how to deal with artistic creation from the scarcity of resources, while Hamlet Paredes will exchange on directing actors, and Rubén Ricardo Infante and Rafael Grillo will address the topic of audiovisual production from their work experiences.
For his part, Enrique Betancourt, communicator of the institution, emphasized that the program includes a tribute to the recently deceased Jorge Luis Sánchez, a filmmaker with an extensive career that includes more than 30 audiovisual productions and a participant in the previous edition of the contest.
The International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños will also be present during for the first time and the occasion will be used to inform young filmmakers from all over the country about the opportunities that the center offers in the training of professionals in Latin America, he stressed.
The nearly 20 theoretical spaces will take place at the Cine Martí and the Las Tres Lucías café, and some of the 35 works in competition will be presented at the Ateneo Cinematográfico, while La Casa de Iberoamérica will join the screening of feature films at night.
Sponsored by the Provincial Film Center of Holguin, the National Audiovisual Festival For the First Time aims to stimulate film creation in the country and in its 17th edition it will be dedicated to the promotion and visualization of young Cuban filmmakers.
With information from the Cuban News Agency/ Translated by Radio Angulo
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