In its first virtual edition, the event also finds an exhibition platform on the Cuban television signal
From this March 3, the XIX edition of the Santiago Álvarez in memoriam International Documentary Festival began through different channels and social networks. The event, which has been held in the city of Santiago de Cuba, this time comes in virtual mode due to the restrictions associated with covid-19.
The festival’s network programming will allow viewers from all over the world to be part of these broadcasts and appreciate selected works of Vietnamese documentary cinema.
In addition to the extensive programming on the YouTube channels of the Ministry of Culture and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), and on the social media profiles of the Santiago Álvarez Office, the Multivision channel of Cuban Television will promote rapprochement from the national public to the works selected for the event.
The television programming of the Santiago Álvarez in memoriam Festival began this Wednesday with the 376 broadcast of the ICAIC Latin American Newsletter, where solidarity with Vietnam is addressed, the country to which the current edition of the event is dedicated. It was also broadcast Nixon’s drama (1971), documentary directed by Santiago Álvarez on the North American invasion of Laos.
This March 4, Multivisión viewers were able to see broadcast 395 of the ICAIC Latin American Newsletter, corresponding to the year 1968. A highly relevant title included in the program is the documentary I will go to Santiago (1964), directed by Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. To this material is added the work that won the Grand Prize of the XVII Santiago Álvarez in memoriam Festival: Born in Gambia (2018), with the direction of Natxo Leuza.
In order to show the relationship of Santiago Álvarez with Vietnamese cinema, for this Friday the News… 408 (1968), which features an interview with the leader Ho Chi Minh. Similarly, Multivisión will exhibit Hanoi, Tuesday 13 (1967), one of the most relevant works in the creative career of the prominent Cuban filmmaker.
Other emissions from ICAIC Latin American Newsletter and award-winning works throughout the festival can be seen in the rest of the program conceived by the event for Multivisión.
The fact that this channel has long increased the presence on its grid of Cuban documentary works demonstrates the relevance of the genre in the context of filmmaking and the interest in bringing national audiences closer to events such as the Santiago Álvarez in memoriam Festival through of the small screen.
Using the APK TVC billboard, the viewer can obtain the details of each of the selected works, its synopsis and the specific transmission times.
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