Last night Cecilia Roth reiterated her Friday criticism of the management of Javier Milei’s government in the Incaa. But voices from the host country also joined against a 2020 measure by López Obrador.
Cecilia Roth, Juan Antonio Bayona (director of “The Snow Society”), and the Chilean Pablo Larrain (“No”, “Jackie”, “Spencer”) led this Saturday an international demonstration in defense of Argentine cinema. Among others, the Spanish Lola Dueñas, Daniel Burman, Santiago Mitre, Dolores Fonzi, Marcelo Subiotto, Alejandra Flechner, Pilar Gamboa, Santiago Korovsky, the Brazilian Alice Braga and the Uruguayan Enzo Vogrincicprotagonist of “The Snow Society”.
The event took place in the Xcaret Park in the Riviera Maya, minutes before the Platinum Awards ceremony for the best Latin American films and series, where Argentina was a candidate for 25 awards. Last Friday, as this newspaper reported, Roth, who received the Platinum Honor, He had already anticipated some of the statements that he reiterated and underlined last night: “It is very likely that the next edition of the Platino Awards will have very little or no Argentine representation and that we will lose the spaces and markets that our production occupies today”, he said at the demonstration. Also during the ceremony there were several statements in defense of Argentine cinema, insisting on the risk of its reduction due to the current measures of the INCAA auditor.
“These calls are not foreign to Mexico”commented the journalist from that country Becka Salasremembering that the government of Lopez Obrador “He also made harsh cuts that significantly impacted the industry, and his push to eliminate Fidecine, a trust aimed at promoting film production, has caused a lot of uncertainty and has led to excessive dependence on private companies, mostly foreign, to keep film and series production active in the country.”
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Created in 2001, the Fidecine favored the realization of more than 400 productions, but in 2020 Lopen Obrador decreed the dissolution of 109 funds and trusts, repealing in this case the articles of the Federal Cinematography Law that gave legal support to the Fidecine. After two years of protests and judicial appeals, he created the Promotion of Mexican Cinemaa budget program 68% lower than that of the missing fund.
As for the Platinum, created by the main producer associations in Spain and Latin Americathe great winner was “The Snow Society” (Best Film, Director, Actor, Photography, Editing, Sound), followed by the Spanish “20,000 species of bees” (Screenplay, First Feature, Ane Garbarain Supporting Actress), “My robot friend” (Best Animation and Music), “Close the eyes” (José Coronado, Cast, co-production with Argentina), “Under therapy” (Best Comedy), “One Love” (Laila Costa, Actress) and the miniseries “The Messiah” (Lola Dueñas, Best Actress, Carmen Machi, Cast).
Chile won three: “Infinite memory” (Documentary film), “Count” (Art Direction) and “The thousand days of Allende” (Alfredo Castro, Best Actor in a Miniseries).
Argentina shone in the Miniseries category: “Barrabrava” (Best Miniseries, Argentine-Uruguayan co-production), “Iosi, the repentant spy” (Daniel Burman, Creator) and “The love after Love” (Andy Chango, Best Supporting Actor as Charly García). There was no award for his films, which had to settle for having reached the final among nearly a thousand candidates from Latin America and Spain. Mexico, Brazil and the rest of the countries fared worse.
Source: Ambito
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