{"id":222920,"date":"2020-06-14T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=222920"},"modified":"2020-06-14T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T17:32:31","slug":"our-cinema-independent-and-cuban-present-and-immediate-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/billboard\/cuban-cinema\/our-cinema-independent-and-cuban-present-and-immediate-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our cinema, independent and Cuban: present and immediate future"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 21st century, Cuban independent cinema<\/a> has experienced a notable growth, backed by its presence in important international events, as well as by the aesthetic quality of its works. It has investigated different ways of making cinema and has addressed issues related to Cuban reality, inside and outside the island.<\/p>\n

The possibility, or rather the need to make films independently\u2015the term is understood as a film made outside the country\u2019s highest cinematographic entity, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC)\u2015has given young filmmakers greater creative freedom, both in the technical-artistic aspect and in the topics addressed.<\/p>\n

These filmmakers, mostly graduates of the Faculty of Audiovisual Media of the University of the Arts or the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Ba\u00f1os, have spent several years looking for alternative ways to carry out their projects, not always well seen at ICAIC, the governing body of national cinema for the past 60 years.<\/p>\n

The boom of the digital age has allowed new opportunities for new filmmakers, who take advantage of technology to make film products of high artistic quality, despite the lack of production, financing and resources in general.<\/p>\n

In this regard, producer Claudia Calvi\u00f1o comments to OnCuba<\/strong>: \u201cI don\u2019t share the idea that independent cinema is poor. I do understand that there may be a certain agility and austerity in the formulas and the ways in which independent cinema is made. Sometimes these are not production and financing criteria, also artistic. Sometimes independent films have another expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n

While those characteristics were part of the independent film movement at one time, the patterns have changed over time. Currently, we can find independent films made with the same technical requirements of large production houses, a peculiarity that applies to the Cuban environment as well, thanks to the work of independent production entities such as Island Films<\/em>, Producciones de la 5ta Avenida<\/em>, El Ingenio<\/em>, among others, now with legal recognition by the Cuban State as a result of the measures adopted last year.<\/p>\n

El cine cubano que no se ve<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n