“We are bogged down,” says Inti Cordera, director of DocsMX, one of the oldest documentary film festivals in Mexico, when referring to the new cinematography law.
Last week, the same day that a bill proposed by Senator Ricardo Monreal was to be voted on, the Morenoist politician himself withdrew it and said that it was best to hold an open parliament to hear all voices.
Hours later, groups of the national film community issued a statement from which it was extracted that the interests of exhibitors and distributors, and not those of the cinema, had permeated Monreal’s decision.
The discordant points between the sectors is the screen time for national productions and the dubbing.
“It worries me a lot that we cannot reach agreements, the league is constantly stretching; the great (governmental) commitment would be to call for a national pact for Mexican cinema and generate the agreements ”.
Remember that the parliament opened for a new law has already been executed since April 2019 at the request of deputy Sergio Mayer, president of the Culture and Cinematography Commission.
“At what point did we get lost? The aspects that must be resolved are specific, it is necessary to bring together the fundamental actors and reach agreements ”.
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