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Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO INTERNATIONAL FORUM: CARIBBEAN FILM MARKET & OTHER EXHIBITION ALTERNATIVES.

 Caribbean film makers and producers, exhibitors and distribution companies’ representatives from Caribbean zone, Latin America, the Unites States of America, Africa and Europe; to the executives of Public and Private Television companies, the National Film Committees, and to the Caribbean Cultural Authorities and Promoters.

The Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase, since its very first edition in 2006-2007, has been confirmed to be the most significant action towards the promotion of the films made by authors from the region. In its third edition, taking place this year 2010, the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase Office has received 217 films from almost every country in the Caribbean zone, which are to be taken into consideration by the Showcase International Selection Committee. This quantity of films proves the interest, valuation and appreciation this event has provoked in film makers, spectators, critics, and cultural authorities from over 31 countries, as well as in Latin American scenes, where it has been presented, in Hollywood Cinematheque, the British Museum, or UNESCO’s head office, in Paris.

As part of each edition of the Showcase, an International Forum has taken place, which, organized by the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase Office, have arouse the exchange of ideas and the coordination of initiatives in favor of a higher consumption of the Caribbean Film within the region and abroad. The two previous forums [“Strategies for collaboration and integration in the Caribbean Cinema and audiovisual” (2007), and “Audiovisual production and exhibition for children and adolescents I the Caribbean: Realities and perspectives” (2009)] turned out to be particularly useful. Caribbean specialists and from other countries of the world, contributed with their lectures and interventions to the high quality of the debates and their results, as well as to reveal some effective initiatives to reach the final goal of these actions: That the Caribbean Film shall be watched by its audience. That a Caribbean Film of high artistic quality, of notable communicative interest with its natural region audiences may become closer and visible in the television and movies screens, in the Caribbean region and in the rest of the world.

What has just been stated, gains importance in the current international panorama concerning the cinematographic exhibition, where the amount of the predominant productions cancels any possibility of cultural diversity idea. In 2008, the countries within the European Union saw 70.8% of American films or co produced (16.7%) with big American enterprises; 28.3% European films and barely 1.6% from the rest of the world. Along with Asia, Africa and Latin America: What minimum per cent could you imagine corresponds to the Caribbean countries?

Accordingly, the Third Forum of the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase will be devoted to the “Caribbean Film Market & Other Exhibition Alternatives”.

The forum shall take place in Havana City, July 14th – July 16th, and it must be an encounter and dialogue opportunity, attended by exhibitors and distribution companies’ representatives, film makers, producers, public and private TV executives, DVD commercialist companies, on-line film dealers, authorities of the cinematographic and audiovisual media, etc.

This official announcement to the forum of the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase confers special interest to the presence of exhibitors and distribution companies’ representatives of the region and from the rest of the world, and also to the participation of TV executives. Therefore, a selection of films (feature films, shorts, documentaries, animation) of different author from the Caribbean region, residing or not in their native countries, will be daily presented subtitled in English, French and Spanish, as part of the forum program, allowing the participants to appreciate some exhibiting works of the most actual and recent Caribbean cinematographic productions (insular and Caribbean continental countries).

Appointment for encounters and reflection, opportunity to dialogue and acknowledge, the Forum will provoke specialized information exchange and will allow to concrete links that contribute to a higher and better circulation of the Caribbean film in the conventional market and in other possible alternatives that shall legitimate its existence. Within the agenda of the forum, among other themes sensible to the market problems: the promotion and exhibition of the Caribbean Film, subtitling services, dubbing capacities, and technical and artistic valuations concerning the quality of the cinematographic works of the region, and also the thematic interest of the stories.

The Forum will highly appreciates the participation of specialists, critics and investigators whose lectures and research works contribute to reveal different problematic issues concerning the cinematographic and audiovisual exhibition in the Spanish, English, French, and Dutch speaking Caribbean countries.

Rigoberto López

Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase

President

Havana City, April 27th, 2010

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