If by next Friday the Bolivian Cinema and Audiovisual Development Agency (Adecine) does not honor the debt of two efforts for Ibermedia memberships, Bolivian cinema will be orphaned, without financial support, reported Viviana Saavedra del Castillo, director and producer film and audiovisual executive.
Ibermedia is a program to encourage the co-production and co-development of fiction, documentary and animation films and series, made in the community made up of 23 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Saavedra, also director of Bolivia Lab, explained that Bolivia owes some 300,000 dollars to the international organization for adhesions corresponding to the 2021-2022 administrations and, if the debt is not honored, the national cinematography will not enjoy financial support for the projects that They are on the verge of materializing.
The film director reported that the Government, through the Foreign Ministry, promised Ibermedia to settle the debt in the first quarter of this year, that is, until March 31, an obligation that has not been fulfilled to date, which is why the film producers decided to send notes of support directly to President Luis Arce Catacora.
“Germán Monge (Adecine’s director) began the process at the Ministry of Culture and this is referred to Foreign Relations and this goes to the Ministry of Economy, that is the route of the process for payment, although there is no certainty that the document is in that division,” he said.
Later, he said that Bolivia is in category C of the Ibermedia Program, for which its annual quota reaches 150 thousand dollars.
“Bolivia is among the countries with the least quotas; Those 150,000 dollars that he contributes in a management go into a common bag, where others put much more money. The total sum is distributed to the projects that are endorsed by the Technical Unit of the international organization”, he maintained in time to point out that in recent years Bolivian cinema has received double what it contributes each year.
“Without these resources, we disappear from the map in the international context, since films like Utama, which have won so many awards, among others, documentaries, fiction, have received funds from Ibermedia and have allowed them to shoot their films,” said Saavedra.
Later, he reported that four to five national films are favored each time Ibermedia’s financial support is given.
Meanwhile, film producers remain on the lookout, confident that the Government will disburse the economic resources in the following days.
2023-05-05 22:44:02
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