This animated film created by the Cuban cartoonist and filmmaker Juan Padrón, considered the father of cinematographic animation in Cuba, began in 1970 in the children’s magazine Pionero as a comic strip and the event is organized just to honor the role of this mambí hero in popular culture. of this nation.
The event will focus its attention, above all, on the production of Ocelot, known for his animated films Kiriku and the Witch (1998) or Azur & Asmar (2006).
This IV edition of MICE will also be dedicated to France and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).
The contest will take place until May 12 with an extensive program that includes exhibition of materials made by children, adolescents and young people, audiovisual training workshops and master classes.
In a press conference to adjust details of the educational forum, the director of the Juan Marinello Institute, Luis Emilio Aybar, referred to the meaning of MICE in the context of Cuba today.
Audiovisual culture predominates in everything, in the way in which people relate to life itself, to everyday life, to current contexts, declared Aybar, who added at that time that another of the positive points of MICE is being the fruit of a great institutional articulation.
Through the sample, the alliance between the Ministries of Culture and Education is evident.
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