Havana, Nov 9 (EFE).- The Cuban Ministry of Culture (Mincult) announced this Thursday that journalist Alexis Triana will be the new president of the state-run Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic).
“Triana assumes the presidency of the ICAIC at a time when the institution is working together with the creators in the preparation of the proposals that are being presented to the Temporary Working Group to focus on the development of Cuban cinema,” the Mincult note states. published on the CubaCine portal.
Regarding Triana’s career, he says that he has a long history as a cultural manager and promoter, as well as serving as vice president of the Gibara Film Festival, in the province of Holguín (east).
He also adds that he is also vice president of the National Council of Performing Arts, in Havana, and also director of Communication and founder of the Multimedial Studio, the digital channel CrearTV and the Cuba Streaming Network in the Ministry of Culture.
In recent months, Icaic had been directed by its vice president, Susana Molina, who replaced Ramón Samada last July following his resignation from the position amid the controversy generated in the filmmakers’ union by the censorship of the documentary “La Habana de Fito”. “, directed by Juan Pin Vilar.
After that incident that occurred last June, the independent collective Assembly of Cuban Filmmakers (ACC) emerged, which also protested the broadcast of that film – in a non-final version and without authorization from its director – through state television.
This situation motivated the “disagreement” of a group of filmmakers with the actions of the cultural authorities and was expressed in an open letter of rejection signed by more than 600 professionals in the sector, among them the renowned director Fernando Pérez, and the actors Jorge Perugorría and Luis Alberto García.
More than fifty representatives of the union have since met with authorities from the Mincult, the Icaic, the government and the Cuban Communist Party (PCC, the only legal one) to address the controversy unleashed and other issues.
The filmmakers integrated into the ACC agreed to create four working commissions, one dedicated to the issue of Censorship and Exclusion, which aims to discuss this type of situation with the Government, and another three that will deal with production, cultural policies and the claim that a Cinema law is approved, which is not foreseen in the schedule of the legislature (2023-2028) of Parliament. EFE
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2023-11-10 03:25:12
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