The United Argentine Film Festival was held: “in defense of its future”

The Open Audiovisual Assembly held a massive meeting last Tuesday that brought together multiple personalities from the Argentine national industry, in defense of their activity and permanence in the country. The Argentine Film Festival was organized at Niceto Club, under the slogan “Cine Argentino Unido” (United Argentine Cinema), because – as reported by its representatives in a statement – the audiovisual industry generates 650,000 jobs, represents 5.2% of the annual GDP, creates imagination to transform reality and identifies us, in our country and around the world. Argentine Film Festival”Because we defend the INCAA development funds and we want them to be expanded with the contribution of the platforms. Because culture, like health or education, is a right and should be for all people. Because cinema constructs memory in order to avoid, in the future, the mistakes of the past. Because we are a sector that expresses itself united and expanding, we said PRESENT at the UNITED ARGENTINE CINEMA FESTIVAL,” they said. Fiesta del Cine ArgentinoFiesta del Cine ArgentinoThe activity of Argentine cinema represents one of the constant struggles for its financing and protection. Let’s remember that last year, hundreds of art workers were driven by the extension of the development funds to 50 years. While last month, personalities present at the 71st San Sebastian Festival, raised a flag in defense of INCAA (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts). You may also be interested in: San Sebastian Film Festival: Argentine cinema spoke out against Javier Milei’s threats”Representatives of the 25 Argentine films and projects present at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, we met to express our deep concern about the statements of the presidential candidate of an ultra-right party who threatens the closure of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (in addition to the closure of the Ministry of Cinema) of Culture, the Ministry of Education, the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, the Ministry of Health, among other state institutions)”, stressed that “Argentina has the right and the duty to have its own collective imaginary, where its memory, identity and customs can be expressed. Argentine cinema has known how to be that place and will continue to be so.”

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