Adrián Suar spoke about polka and targeted the Government for funding culture

After rumors of the closure of the Polka production company, Adrian Suar spoke about it and revealed what the future of the company is for the coming years. In addition, he criticized the new policies that the national government plans to implement on the financing of culture, among them, the INCAA and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Within the framework of the premiere of the new film in which he stars for Amazon Prime Video, Checkmatethe producer spoke with LAM (América TV) and expressed his point of view about two issues that are directly relevant to current national politics.

Last week a version emerged about the alleged definitive closure of Polka, a company run by Suar. Given this, he bluntly stated: “Years passed and I knew that sooner or later, reality and how everything was changing, I was going to have to reconvert, change to Polka (…) Added to that in the last two years, with the productions I did, I could not achieve the success I wanted. I tried and I couldn’t.”

Regarding the continuity of the company, he stated: “Polka did not close. It’s a see you soon. It is an end of the cycle with all the sadness. I had already been grieving for two or three years. But I feel like at some point I’m going to come back, I don’t know when. In 2024 there will be no fiction. I don’t know 2025, but I hope to return at some point. I have to reinvent myself.”

“Although I make films, I have some ideas for some platforms that buy me, I am going to produce in Spain (…) When I can I hope to return, but I don’t know when. I hope it will be a see you soon and soon,” Suar expressed and then referred to his emotional state regarding this decision: “Personally, I needed to turn the page. There were many years of doing many strips in a row, which is what I love the most. And I hope to live up to it.”

Adrián Suar’s criticism of the Government for the policies that would be imposed in Culture

At the beginning of the talk with Ángel de Brito, Adrián Suar criticized the defunding planned for the areas of national culture, among them the INCAA, the National Fund for the Arts and the National Theater Institute. He bluntly defended local production and made a strong comparison with a Latin American country.

“It seems to me that it is a shame, a serious mistake, to defund it. You can improve it, but not defund it. It can be made more efficient. The INCAA is an autonomous entity, although it receives money from the State, you can say ‘I want it this way’. Besides, Talking about culture in only economic terms, what it gives me, what it doesn’t give me, seems like a total backwardness to me. (…) Not everything is money, the identity of a country with culture is how you value yourself in the world,” said the producer.

“When we talk many times in some speeches that we have distanced ourselves from the world, one says, ‘yes, that’s true, it could be.’ But with these measures you begin to distance yourself from the world and you begin to look like Venezuela (…) Culture is partially financed throughout the world,” Suar insisted and pointed out: “I feel that when you provide incentives from the State, from the private sector, you encourage production and generate sources of work. When you unplug, with the pretext that everything is stolenwhich in principle, I say it with respect, too much ignorance not to understand, which does not mean that there are not things to improve, that perhaps they are poorly managed, but do not defund; that’s a setback. “It is something that has strong consequences for a country.”.