Monday, September 23, 2013

Cuban TV: Caught between two Congresses? - CounterPunch

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held before the ninth congress of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, UPEC, and in television news reports began to appear and comments that were coming to some problems of reality.

After important event in which the Communist Party of Cuba summoned journalists, officials, journalists and generally those who have to do with the broadcasting of messages in our country, to participate fully in the changes Guidelines under economic and the objectives of the Conference partisan born Cuba says space in the NTV and the Round Table have been issues from education to construction, with the interest to provide information about serious problems of Cuban society.

But is it enough what you do? I applaud that at least will talk about these issues but lack more depth in most of the approaches and it will not come to the crux of the problem, not only responsible journalists or executives of ICRT.

reality

travels on our screens in a transparent and imposes severe media that have the full backing of the structures of the Party itself and that to assert his authority with ministries and companies that continue to play the secrecy , covered in real and not inconsiderable economic and ideological war delivered in Washington against Cuba, which has increased instead of decreasing. But many times for not giving information to our powerful enemies, we let them impose the news agenda , because although not everyone has Internet or mail, the news spread through the network Networking with flash memory or CD that come to those who are not online. If to this is added the DVD Who says that if the media do not tell the Cubans, the public does not know?.

I think every one (or a) with responsibility for broadcasting, should be aware that information should come from our sources and not the other, because play is not effective riposte. If the resolutions of the Ninth Congress of UPEC are a challenge to all the press, specifically for television is a high bar to be jumping into a space not only informative, but in all.

greater processing time, programs like Art Site , Huron blue , Parentheses , Open Dialogue, Al right , and Free access Havana Canal (I know there are good call centers in other spaces, but do not know) are much closer to an annotated information, specialized and diverse controversy contributes to meet the needs of the viewer

A Change in the bullpen?

Awhile back

who follow the ups and downs of television, we said that the reflection of the current Cuba was in fictional programs. A flight memory serial recall proposals The dark side of the moon, Diana, Under the Same Sun, Here we are , and Unitarians as The earrings that are missing moon reign snake and shored, that more or less told stories aesthetic achievement here and now.

After the TV series

Here we telenovela space hosted three proposals away from our daily or touched in a superficial way, which I appreciated at the time.

We now have air

Fire Earth , a soap opera directed by my friend Miguel Sosa and according to some polls, more visits to the cooperatives that makes the collective work is accepted by the farmers, a sector of that not long ago came on the small screen.

My colleague Soledad Cross

and again told me that the field is lived well, and I believe him, but not the way it is told that the television itself denies it: when interviewing cooperative presidents are in the field, her hair covered by a scarf, a shirt with long sleeves, boots and without a drop of makeup. It is true that when she looks in another plane of the interview, at home, there are all kinds of comfort, is well made up with a blouse or dress that has nothing to envy to the garments worn by women entering the Habana Libre to have a drink.

When came the first episode of the series Migue called to ask if he had not had a little to throw light brown to white hats, shiny, carrying all the peasants, which evidenced a complete lack of patina That happens with the walls, the furniture, there is not a dercorchadito not even on the walls. I still remember Antonio Fagundes in the Brazilian telenovela Cattle King with breast desirable, and gray, sweaty, discovered by a shirt too wet after a jog on his farm. I’m still to see someone to sweat Fire Lands a proposal that could develop anywhere, but he chose not seem right-but not sufficient-the field as a backdrop.

There

sub-frames rape as a “Guajira” who denies the town-which alone could be an interesting story. How many farmers have migrated to the city looking for new horizons? Why not try on a story-there-of people who have lived in Havana and have gone to a farm that is the way I have found to survive?

course that would be another novel in which we are no problems with the script and directing actors, who do the characters believable. Land of fire not come any Verena Contreras, not a Captain Nacho, much less Silvestre Hurdle, which Xiomara Blanco, with its Earth brava , a classic telenovela, managed to provide of blood and flesh enough for Jacqueline Arenal, Fernando and Enrique Molina Hecheverría, interpreters of those characters, have not yet managed to rescue their real names to the public.

The other proposal

dramatized S.O.S. Academy , released in the summer has an attractive staging, choreography and acceptable good performances, but is obviously a mixture boarding Caribbean and Two steps forward , accepted and applauded Spanish series especially by teenagers then why Cuban version aired at ten at night?

Cubavisión

Saturday, perhaps without big contributions aesthetic, this summer were inserted for younger telefilms in space A street, a thousand paths , which required subjects also had a presentation, with discussion included, which helped smooth out intended for boys and girls to get involved in these stories not far from real life.

What comes

In this fast pass

on television today, I aim to be fixed if they have not, in the program memory commend , a sample of how enjoyable and useful to the profiles of great men and women of mankind, as well as historical facts. The director of this proposal team has enough culture to choose good and know pass unadulterated history.

During the Festival of television and radio, developed with more successes than failures, were discussed in workshops and conferences theoretical several issues vital to these two powerful media. A complaint that the Havana Convention can not get anyone who wants to debate, it should be remembered that no rooms were filled when made in Vedado, even as the snail is able to summon up the room repletar Villena, of UNEAC, as happened a decade ago, perhaps because of a few problems have been resolved. The festival organizing committee, to assess the development of the meeting agreed that the next one will be the first convention of radio and television, to develop their own festivals, contests and debates, plus exhibitions and exchanges with foreign delegates.

I think for that game if you want prestige awards granted need to review the basis and seek to deliver you the most outstanding awards, in such a way that without giving a string of awards, nor allow to distinguish For example, an edit spectacular.

Indeed, in the context of the festival “bumped” with RTV offers commercial marketer of radio and television. For me, perhaps because you know, it is very encouraging that this entity is the manager of films like Conduct , Ernesto Daranas, Leontine of Rudy Mora, Why weep my friends? of Magda Gonzalez Grau, Esteban of Jonal Cosculluela, and foam day of Fernando Timossi.

these films are joined Habitat series of Randol Menendez, the grand prize of television this year and Duaba honor Odyssey of Roly Peña (to the to devote further analysis) showing films like a creature enviable. The renowned Gloom tape of Charlie Medina was also produced by this company.

RTV works with various forms of production and is therefore a good example of what can be achieved and should go further. I know it depends on the TV executives but when an artist can sell their works to the small screen? Do they not taken away the hassles of transportation, snack, lights, in short, everything it takes to produce one minute audiovisual when he was charged with a director who already, technological development, to edit at home?

No wonder I discussed two conferences in the title of this text was the ninth of UPEC, comes the Eighth UNEAC. How many of the approaches of the artists on the radio and tv made five years ago will have a positive response? Will we reach that appointment with poor infrastructure, from the building to the lack of microphones balitas, for example?, Is promoting really want a TV and a radio educated and entertaining?. If the latter question the answer is YES, then in addition to talent missing all resources to achieve visual variety to satisfy different audiences.

researcher, publicist and national television award Mirta Muñiz has an interesting book on the ration book. Apart from such a text, the subject has been touched only with the necessary depth and time with all the humor of the world, Live team Tale that directs Ignacio Hernandez, Nachi. That program deserved the humorous space tv in the last festival, but was more: a standing ovation from those who were there to recognize the efforts of a group of artists working as a family to the small screen. But besides this moral stimulus is it fair that Nachi win just like other directors who get nowhere near that quality in their products?. That is an issue that has been hotly debated soon will you have solution?.

And

. Not enough space for subjects as varied. Another time will be. And of course, before the next congress of the UNEAC.

(Taken from The Bearded Cayman)

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