Santander (EFE).- The general director of the Institute of Cinematography and Visual Arts (ICAA), Beatriz Navas, believes that the good harvest of Spanish cinema will continue because it is not the result of circumstances but of the maturity of the sector, which it is giving results.
“Very good projects come out that also travel very well,” Navas said in Santander, where he participated in a meeting of the Interterritorial Film Commission with the autonomous communities.
At this meeting, they discussed the parliamentary processing of the draft Law on Cinema and Audiovisual Culture, aid to the sector and the international promotion of Spanish cinema, three days before its great party, the Goya gala .
According to the director of the ICAA, these good results have been contributed to by film schools, which already have a track record, the support of the Government of Spain and the communities and the commitment of television, including regional ones. “We are reaping the fruits and we are going to give it continuity,” she stressed.
Spanish cinema also triumphs abroad
Spanish films and also television series are also having a very good reception outside of Spain, he pointed out.
During 2023, the institute and the communities will promote the Spanish audiovisual sector in major events such as the Berlinale, Cannes, the Malaga Festival or the Annecy animation festival, an international agenda to which Busan (South Korea) will join in October.
For the director of the institute, the audiovisual industry has many challenges ahead and has just emerged from a pandemic, but a recovery plan has also been launched that “will shake up” a cultural sector that is sometimes unprofessional and highly fragmented.
In his opinion, it is also a very good time “to work in the territory” and that talent is not concentrated only in large cities.
It is the first time that this meeting is held in Cantabria, which, according to its vice president and Minister of Culture, Pablo Zuloaga, offers “fertile territory” for filming films and series.
Although other communities compete with their tax advantages, Cantabria is a small territory in size but that “offers everything in filming” and that has locations ranging from snow and mountains to urban areas, nature and cultural heritage, has underlined.
According to Zuloaga, the pandemic has also been an opportunity to implement tools to boost the audiovisual sector in Cantabria, with which dialogue has been resumed.
And that’s where the Film and Production Dialogues (DCC) arose, which already have 16 installments and give their name to the room that hosted the meeting this Wednesday.
Workgroup
As reported after the meeting by the Ministry of Culture, the Interterritorial Commission for Cinematography and Audiovisual has proposed to create a working group to deepen state-autonomous collaboration regarding the concurrent powers in the field of cinematography and audiovisual culture.
The objective is that the regulatory developments and their application are carried out in a coordinated manner.
The entry into force of the modifications to the legal deposit law regarding the mandatory registration of works in the audiovisual sector and the powers of the communities have also been reported.
The representatives of Euskadi and Cantabria have reported on the work carried out by the working groups that they have led on audiovisual literacy and sustainability respectively.