Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase
La Muestra Itinerante de Cine del Caribe
La Présentation Itinérante du Cinéma de la Caraďbe
www.caribefilm.cult.cu
Rigoberto
López Pego
President
History
On the occasion of the First
Festival of Cuban Cinema that was organized in Kingston, Jamaica (14-18
June 2005), filmmakers together with Cuban and Jamaican cultural
authorities agreed about the validity of organizing a regional event that
will be a meeting point to our audiovisual production. This event should
also serve for mutually knowing and recognizing our identities, starting
from visions that go beyond the stereotypes of the Caribbean that were
imposed by the big hegemonic centers of audiovisual production and
distribution, that leave out the diversity and cultural wealth of
the Caribbean countries.
The foundation of this regional
event was based on the following principles:
- The film and
audiovisual industry can make an important contribution to the knowledge
and recognition of our cultures, to the reaffirmation of our identities
and to the collaboration and integration at the regional level. The
possibility of appreciating works of Caribbean authors inside the region
favors the dialog between the different realities of our nations and
reveals at the same time the sense of belonging in terms of a common
historic and cultural heritage.
- The film and
audiovisual creation in the Caribbean can be a decolonizing act, a
liberating act, an answer given by thought and autochthonous art to
stereotypes that. Since they are foreign visions, they reproduce on the
screen a reductionist vision or our societies, histories and cultures. To
reclaim the national audiences for the Caribbean film and audiovisual
productions is consistent with the aim of developing the educational and
cultural level in our countries on the basis of the defense and
preservation of the values of our identity and the rich appreciation of
our cultural diversity and common spaces.
- The film and
audiovisual production in the Caribbean region can contribute to the
promotion of universal values as tolerance, respect and dignity, as well
as to the enrichment of the artistic innovation and its multiple
discourses.
- Cinema, as a
means of expression, implies and calls literature, music and all the other
arts. In the intellectual wealth of these countries, as well as in
their tangible and intangible heritage, lies the possibility of placing
the authentic image of the Caribbean region and its people in the global
scene thanks to its film and audiovisual productions.
- The
revitalization of the film and audiovisual movement in the Caribbean
region is an important cooperation and integration project that makes the
most of facilities given by the geographical and cultural proximity and
the relatively equal economic development level on which there is an
undeniable consensus at the academic and governmental levels in the
region.
- The presence of
Caribbean works and authors in cinemas and other exhibition halls of the
region could make possible for filmmakers and audiences to enrich mutually
thanks to the knowledge and interaction of our film productions and could
also offer valuable opportunities for cooperation and exchange in the
framework of the audiovisual production.
Therefore, the Travelling
Caribbean Film Showcase is projected a valuable alternative against the
isolation suffered by our audiovisual productions and the stereotypes
projected about our region image in the Caribbean and in the whole world.
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www.caribefilm.cult.cu/en/showcase/history
Cinema ABCD:
II Encounter of Filmmakers from Africa, Brazil, The Caribbean and
Their Diasporas
Santo Domingo, July 14th to 17th, 2012
ANNOUNCEMENT
TO: FILMMAKERS, PRODUCERS, ACTORS, EXHIBITORS, REPRESENTATIVES OF
DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES,
EXECUTIVES FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TV STATIONS, AUTHORITIES FROM NATIONAL
FILM
INSTITUTIONS AND FILM PROMOTION ACTIVISTS FROM AFRICA, BRAZIL, THE
CARIBBEAN AND THEIR
DIASPORAS:
The I Encounter of Filmmaker from Africa, the Caribbean and their
Diasporas was held in Havana, in September
2011, organized by the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase. The
participants of this first Encounter, spanning
nine (9) African countries and eighteen (18) countries in Latin America,
North America and the Caribbean,
agreed about the importance of giving continuity to this valuable space
for debate, interchange of experiences,
initiatives and action between filmmakers, film authorities, producers,
distributors and academic specialists in
audiovisual and film.
See
full text
of Announcement
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