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After his visit to the Chamber of Deputies in January within the framework of the debate on the Omnibus law, Leonardo Cifelli returned to the legislative sphere to debate his management in the Culture Commission. Their presence occurred in the midst of the closure of organizations and a growing controversy between film institutes and the Mar del Plata Film Festival.
The Culture Commission of Deputies It moves forward with a work agenda that brings together the interests of all political blocks. An exemplary case was the half-sanction that the creation of the National Regime of Intangible Cultural Heritagewhich was promoted by Union for the Homeland and the PRO to manage concrete actions aimed at the preservation of customs and traditions. In the last meetings, the intention to consolidate a National Patronage Law to promote the cultural industry.
However, the presence of Leonardo Cifelli He anticipated a possible conflict, which the current Secretary of Culture paid for in his interventions. “The cultural battle What we had to give was gigantic: There was a culture that believed it could not sustain itself by its own means. and without the help of the State,” the official analyzed and opined that the “houses of culture had structures and programming full of militancy and political content.”
Likewise, he reiterated arguments about spending in the national film industry: “Millions of pesos were spent for films with 4, 5, 8, 20 viewers.” To conclude his opening speech, he noted that “our cultural battle is to break with the corruption that they had as a rule, in which a few benefitedthe same as always, the caste that gave millions of pesos to friends to sing at their events, to name them in their works or to show them in their movies.”
Criticism of his initial intervention came from different blocks. “When you listen to it, it seems like you have the secretary of revenge in front of you,” said the woman from Jujuy. Natalia Sarapura (UCR). The porteño Maximiliano Ferraro (CC) stated that “you say that you have to take care of Argentines’ money but not their cultural policies and made a pamphlet review of your management.” The Cordovan Pablo Carro (Unión por la Patria) described it as “McCarthyism of the worst kind” and asked that, if they existed, lists of artists who were friends of the last administration be presented.
Culture Commission: intervention by opponents
The first deputy who asked to speak was from Buenos Aires Fabio Quetglas (UCR) emphasized the complaints for editorial plagiarism that Javier Milei received: “It degrades us as a nation that our President writes citing authors and expresses himself in international forums without citing them.” “You ask me things about the President that don’t apply,” was Cifelli’s response.
For her part, the Buenos Aires Marcela Passo (Union for the Homeland) expressed his repudiation of the Closing of the Costume Museum and inquired about the demotions in rank of museum directors despite the fact that they fulfill the same functions. “The Costume Museum does not disappear but becomes dependent on the National Historical Museum because it is a building that has serious problems. All the heritage will be taken care of and the workshops will continue in the same place,” the Secretary of Culture promised.
In the meeting, which was characterized by permanent interruptions, he intervened Maximiliano Ferraro (Civic Coalition) who asked if the State received a sum of money for carrying out the Madrid Forum in it Freedom Palace (exCCK). From there, in the second half of the match, Leonard Cifelli He delegated the responses to other officials in his portfolio, who pointed out that the administration of the Libertad Palace and other spaces correspond to the State Assets Agency.
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
The latest news Mar del Plata International Film Festival They are not linked to its programming or its international presence. This week, film industry organizations decided to abandon their participation in the country’s main film event. Thus it was that the organizations that make up the Federation of Associations of Professionals of the Argentine Audiovisual Industry (groups of editors, sound engineers, art and photography directors) will not carry out their usual awards ceremony.
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“This decision responds, in principle, to the lack of necessary guarantees so that the juries of our associations can carry out their work in a respectful manner with the participating films, with our institutions and with the festival itself,” they stated in a statement. The artists of the Independent Cinema Project (PCI) that they will not deliver the Artistic Innovation Award, while at the same time Argentine Film Directors (DAC) created its jury for the distinction for Best Argentine Film Direction at the festival.
For their part, different sectors that make up the Argentine film industry are advancing in the design of a unofficial event that takes place in Mar del Plata in parallel to the festivalwhere the projection of national films exhibited during this year and artistic interventions in opposition to the cultural policies of the current administration are planned.
Source: Ambito
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