Raul Castro

The designer Nelson Ponce was in control of this Competition marketing campaign.

After greater than 20 years of existence, the results of the Gibara Worldwide Movie Competition might be seen. Not solely has the town opened itself to the occasion and the world, but it surely has elevated its capability when it comes to infrastructure and heritage preservation.

This was talked about at a press convention by Sergio Benvenuto Solás, director of the Competition, whose eighteenth version will probably be held between August 6 and 10. Likewise, he identified how the White Crab Villa grew to become a cultural heart in these days, and the way cultural practices have been remodeled and native coaching and improvement processes have been inspired.

Nonetheless, he emphasised that an important factor – in accordance with the founding ideas of the motion, impressed by Humberto Solás and included within the Manifesto of the Cinema of the Poor – is to encourage the creation on the a part of the east of the nation, and reap the benefits of its potential.

Because of this, the Competition, this time with the motto Movie the East!, will host for the primary time the assembly of the Movie Manufacturing unit of the Poor, to advertise low-budget movie initiatives it was created within the jap areas and in Camagüey.

Additionally returning, after the covid-19 pandemic, is the Cinema that’s being constructed, for these works that intention for awards for post-production.

The enthusiastic participation of the filmmakers helps the aim of Gibara’s fiction to be the “supreme platform for making seen various and avant-garde worldwide aesthetic cinema.” In reality, that is the most important competitors when it comes to variety of movies lately.

Round 900 submissions have been acquired from round 40 nations, and the official choice consisted of 83 movies from 25 nations, within the classes of feature-length fiction movies and feature-length documentaries, quick fiction movies and quick documentaries, and animated motion pictures.

As traditional, the occasion gives, along with the exhibitions, theoretical boards, live shows, jazz, trova and digital music areas; theater reveals, youngsters’s programming and plastic arts reveals. The digital nature of the occasion stands out as progressive, due to the dwell distribution of its areas.

Through the Competition, the Lucía de Honor Award 2024 will probably be given to the filmmaker Manuel Herrera – who will obtain it on the opening gala, from the arms of Eslinda Nuñez -, the director Manuel Pérez Paredes, and the photographer Livio Delgado.

The assembly will probably be opened with the movie Sin papeles (Canada, 2023) by the Chilean-Canadian director and protagonist Cristian de la Cortina, which offers with the phenomenon of migration and its conflicts.