A Cinema for Children that Expresses and Educates 


12/07/2007

By: Maritza Mariana 
 
The consumer film industry does not educate well our children and adolescences; it doesn't represent the true culture and promotes violent contents to justify ever more violent politics, asserted in Havana Mr. José Juan Ortiz Bru, representative in Cuba of the UN for the Development of Childhood, (UNICEF). 
 
During Ortiz Bru intervention in the First international Forum on childhood and its audiovisual universe, with initial headquarters at the Vitrina de Valonia, in Old Havana, he stressed the work that for 21 years in a row have carried out the Latin American cinema for children as a point of inflection and reflection to tell the world that there are creations with quality and educational aims for children, and adolescents. 
 
The event counted on the presence of Ivan Giroud, director of the New Latin American Film Festival was outstanding the teaching of Cuba, one of the most important countries as melting pot of different cultures and the message that a better society is possible, our children have to learn that culture is the driving motor of society. 
 
The House of Count of Cañongo, today Vitrina de Valonia, develops a systematic work with children, for that reason it was chosen for the inauguration of the Audiovisual International Forum that included the cancellation of the envelope of the first day by José Lorenzo, president of the Philatelic Federation of Cuba. 
 
Among the workshops scheduled within the event’s agenda that concludes on December 11, outstand in the House Benito Juarez Heroes and Heroines: Television How a Television Character can help children, of Mara Goetz, director of the International Center for TV Investigations, of the president of the Prix Jeunesse Internacional, Germany, as well as Producing TV programs for children, of Beth Carmona, president of TVE Brazil. 
 
It is also included a panel on Communication and participative spaces for children, in charge of Ailynn Torres, of the Cuban Institute of Cultural Investigations Juan Marinello and the photographic exhibition Live the Living Diversity!, of pedagogic artistic projects with children in the field of audiovisual and other branches of art. 
 
The exhibition Kids for kids! will be presented by Jo-Anne Blouin, Executive director of CIFEJ, Canada, in the Theater of the Third Order of San Francis of Assisi, headquarters of the children theater company La Colmenita.

Cubasi Translation Staff