San Antonio de los Baños/A group of 24 Caribbean filmmakers are training since this Friday in the sound editing course taught at the International School of Film and Television (Eictv) of Cuba, through the Transcultura program, of the United Nations Educational Organization, the Science and Culture (UNESCO).
The initiative, valued at 600,000 euros ($650,000) from the European Union (EU), includes modern recording and mixing desks, post-production equipment, computers, IT supplies and software.
One of the purposes of the project is to improve the technological infrastructure of the film school founded in Cuba in 1986 and whose inspiration was the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, the Argentine director Fernando Birri and the Cuban filmmaker Julio García Espinosa.
“The film school (about 40 kilometers from Havana) is a very important institution for UNESCO because it is a forum of cultural diversity and a place of global teaching within cinema,” commented Anne Lemaistre, director of the Regional Office. of Culture and Multinational Office for Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti.
“The film school, about 40 kilometers from Havana, is a very important institution for UNESCO”
Meanwhile, the music producer and professor of one of the courses, Gerónimo Labrada, explained that “it has been a wonderful and revealing experience that also demonstrates that the barriers that separate the specialties are increasingly blurred.”
“These guys have come here and have had a musical recording experience with artists of the highest level in Cuba like the musician Ernán López Nussa,” added this sound engineer and winner of a Latin Grammy in 2001.
The meetings include young filmmakers from Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba.
The Transcultura program is a UNESCO initiative with support of 15 million euros from the EU that includes scholarships, courses, cultural training programs and the restoration plan of the old Santa Clara convent, a large building in Old Havana that It will become an educational center.
