The Gibara International Poor Film Festival (FICGibara). In the eastern Cuban province of Holguin, begins today with particularities in its agenda. As an entrepreneurship fair with a technological side and another for these services.
The Villa Blanca, as Gibara is also known. It is the head of the municipality of the same name and will host the XIX edition of the event until April 19. Whose executive direction will be in charge of the director of Culture of the Holguin territory, Jaqueline Tapia.
Tapia will assume that responsibility, while Sergio Benvenuto will take the place of president of the evento. With a screening of national cinema as well.
The agenda of the National Festival “For the First Time” (held in February).
Articulated as a prelude to FicGibara, returned to the date dreamed of by filmmaker Humberto Solás since he created the Manifesto of Poor Cinema, Tapia said.
At a press conference, the members of the of the International Festival of Poor Cinema Aldo Benvenuto Solás.
René de la Cruz, Rubén Ricardo Infante, Rafael Grillo and Tapia announced the promotional spot designed for this year by Nelson Ponce. A veteran in the visual campaigns of the event.
As coordinator of theater and galas of the FICGibara. René de la Cruz gave a brief account of some of the cultural proposals that the 2025 program will have. From the Matanzas and emblematic Teatro de las Estaciones.
The presence of the Holguin companies Palabras al Viento, of oral narration, and Codanza, to the visit of actors such as Jacqueline Arenal as a jury. Tahimí Alvariño, Ernesto Jiménez, Osvaldo and Andrea Doimeadiós.
This edition has a portfolio of more than 500 registered works and. According to its president, it is a very complete edition that has managed to insert international juries. Even creating an animation and documentary jury. With Cuban professionals and from different parts of the world.
For the host nations, 25 films were chosen; from Argentina, 11. Spain, nine; Mexico and Peru, six; and five from Colombia, the United States, Chile and Uruguay. This time it competes in the category of Films in Progress. In support of films that will be made in the future, and more strongly this year for the presence for the second time of Horizonti.
To which the Mexican studios Churubusco join, guaranteeing support in the post-production of the award-winning film. The name Poor Cinema at the Festival is not fortuitous. He had detractors in his time and when we elected him again we knew what was coming our way, said Rafael Grillo.
Also a member of the press team of the Gibar event. National cinema is not only that of Havana. Everywhere in Cuba cinema is made, and it must have its spaces. In this sense, the Poor Cinema Factory takes up Solás’ Manifesto: cinema with a low budget, but with artistic quality and humanistic, ethical resources.
We want to think of Gibara as a party for everyone who approaches, he added. The Gibara Festival has always been a festival of thought, creation and projection.
The theoretical forums address the reality of creativity in cinema in a more urgent way. Gender, diversity, film heritage, production, distribution, environment, filmmakers’ meetings, among others, he concluded.
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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