Sometimes when a heard a story on TV about the delivery of a prize, feel joy, others indifferent. But there are some that joy is great and gives birth to a cry in front of visitors. That happened to me when I heard that Daniel Diez is the National Television Award in 2015.
The emigrant founded the Sierra Maestra, after years of struggle, the Serrana Television. Created groups creation, it stimulated the realization of excellent dramas and achieved what seemed impossible: the flourishing of an incipient climate of dialogue, discussion and creation in the ICRT for him creative mate, a charge is made to your specifications. It was not enough with that: he organized at last! TV Festival. Is Daniel then a revolutionary or not ?. Serve these two interviews, I made many, to illustrate my claim that yes, it is men who fight to change everything that has to be changed.
The best lover of the mountains
Restless and bold man to say what he thinks staring into the eyes, Daniel Diez has a vast work as a documentary; but two unique experiences accumulated address: founding and directing the Serrana Television and be creative area vice president for the ICRT. In both cases the official was always artist; many good programs and many authors who could display his fantasy with Daniel understanding you remember.
Did you play melodies from child to invent? Did you study music? What were you doing in those years
I remember one day I asked my parents to buy me a trumpet, because it was an instrument much like me; but as there was not enough money to invest in something that nobody thought was necessary, I settled for a philharmonic. After I participated in cultural dancing and singing. I was in choirs from different schools. Even I was part of a trio of voices and a member of a group of Mozambique, playing the cowbell, while studying electronics as a scholarship at the School of Communications Osvaldo Herrera.
“A important for my training time was the amount of recordings at that time performed the Sound Experimentation Group of ICAIC in which I participated with Geronimo Labrada, who was the official sound engineer and professor of the group. The musical relationship with them, along with Leo Brower and all the musicians that integrated (Silvio, Pablo, Noel, Leonardo Acosta, Sergio Vitier …) have helped me a greater understanding of what it meant to musical creation and the importance of music in film. Add my work as a soundman and musicalizador Noticiero ICAIC “.
You were soundman Santiago Alvarez. Am accounts how he did the soundtrack to the first heart transplant?
South African ‘Dr Christian Barnard was the first to perform a heart transplant. Those images reached the Noticiero ICAIC through service news agency Reuter, who had a consistent agreement on sending certain information in pictures film (celluloid) without sound, which came a week apart with the fact occurred, so the news had already been released by all news agencies in the country. Anyway were images that had not been seen and it was decided to incorporate the news. The problem began when James asked as only band sound of a heartbeat.
“We went to file search in 78s the heartbeat, but the scrach-a loud noise that appeared in this record type caused by the time- not allowed to use it. Santiago then asked us to go to ICRT and we sought there, which was also unsuccessful. We call a gimmicky and none of the devices used so convinced. We try to live a heart record with a microphone … and nothing. It was five in the morning and we had almost twenty-four hours doing the news. For us, it gave us a heart to the sound of a plane, but he was intransigent with wanted.
“Suddenly he began to feel in the studio sound It looked like a heart, and James said, that’s the heart sound I want. Who is doing it? We all looked, we did not know what this meant. We started looking and it was at that time the professional turntable not working automatically, the arm was placed in the breeding needle by hand and withdrew likewise, and as he had not taken off his arm in the previous test, this had been jumping in the grooves of the disk that are at the end. Someone had opened unintentionally channel audio console which was connected the turntable. That was the sound that was mounted as the soundtrack of the first heart transplant in the Noticiero ICAIC. They are things of the film. “
When does your link with the TV?
-From Noticiero ICAIC same, because we participated together in various activities where ever drank or audio signals emplazábamos cameras next to each other. So I met directors, cameramen, sound engineers and staff members working in television. Over the years, in 1981 I was asked to work in the Journal of the morning as chief information officer, journalist and documentary filmmaker.
“I really relish the idea, but was undecided. One day, publishing a newsletter, I saw on television the news of the attack on the president of Egypt, a fact that had occurred a few hours, but as I worked the videotape, very quickly get the information.
“When other day I spoke with Santiago Alvarez and asked permission to work in television because the new technology allowed to make journalism a lot faster and with great quality, as he had always dreamed of. Santiago thought much; but I reminded him that he said he would like to have a camera in each eye and a microphone in each ear to instantly record the events, and I had that opportunity now.
“I thought and gave me his saw Okay. So I started working on the “Morning Magazine”. Then I trained as program director. “
Why your interest to reflect minorities?
It’s something that is within me and it is very difficult to explain. I think it’s first training I got my parents and the years that belonged to the Baptist church, studying the Bible with a group of boys who called The King’s Heralds, and that made me understand the spiritual values humble people. Then comes the triumph of the Cuban revolution peaking those values as an indispensable premise of every revolutionary and there are, I think, the beginning of these ideas.
How did you conceive the Serrana Television?
‘I was Conrado Benitez literacy in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra, which marked me forever. Watch closely their lives and live their joys and hardships has always been impossible to get it out of mind. Thanks even this does not only think of the farmers in the Sierra, but they have helped me work my rapport with the indigenous world of Latin America and other regions of the world I’ve been handing years. I add the ability to experiment with new ways of doing television, turning away from the established canons and the vast number of people working and really seem to live only programs that do the filmmakers. It was also to have a country look from a mountain community and therefore isolation. It was, in short, the ability to show these mountain the importance of their lives and their dedication to work, show the cultural elements with those areas of the country by understanding the rest of the nation that these traditions and myths that make up part of the Cuban nationality should not be allowed to take into account. Of course it’s Martí and his work, especially itinerant teachers. The Serrana Television I always thought as a cultural project, and that remains, thankfully despite many.
What do you contributed as a professional that experience?
-Pude learn more about humans and had the opportunity to tell stories far from urban centers. It helped me to have a deeper look, closer to the essence; He taught me to better understand the nature and language, which often do not know decipher, although we are constantly releasing posts; showed me that even if you have good ideas members of the National Commission on obstacles will always appear to say that it can not be is not the time or no conditions.
“I must emphasize that when nobody believed or did not agree, Ismael Gonzalez, Manelo, who was president of the ICRT, it did support me; but had no resources to carry out the idea and facilitated contact with UNESCO “.
Is not that strange hills arrullaste with your camera?
Much …, pictures, sounds, people …; spirituality that permeates the place, where you can see your shadow and discover that there are more stars in the sky than you thought.
that was the first project that is maintained a dream?
Yes, still stands, but sometimes I feel that it is not given the importance it deserves and participatory community work. Of course some people will never understand. Hopefully than those who have to decide on the Serrana Television.
Enter your merits as vice president of ICRT is enhancing the works of author and childbirth television drama groups creation . Why such interest?
still think the creators and their act of creation. I still think that television can become an art form and not a single reporter and transmitter banalities.
What you left that job on TV
I’ll tell you the good and the bad. I met true artists committed to their work, and tried to have a space for reflection and analysis on everything having to do with the creative process. He taught me to be patient and learn to wait. Moreover, I stopped my chances of creator, sadness enveloped me so much bureaucracy and filled me with dissatisfaction and arrancasueños dogmatic decisions.
“I was becoming tired and without energy being. What made me more harm internal little wars that were never understood. “
How do you consider to be a good TV? Can improve despite our economic limitations
I do not know exactly what you mean with a good TV; but yes, I think it should be closer to being a means of artistic creation and informative journalistic depth analysis, a mass-circulation. The latter is somewhat diffuse.
What are your plans now and what is your latest documentary?
My last film was self-knowledge, which addresses the values that human beings possess preaching spiritualism. Now I’m researching to continue to show the human values which are sadly missing, but there are still people who keep them alive. I want to find them and teach them to show that this is a very beautiful way to be happy.
A dream does not end
Perhaps their ancestors Daniel Diez has indigenous genes. Defends with such passion minorities and human beings that inhabit the mountains, which look like a man and not an urban area as it is.
So almost Martí quotes Memory: “Cities are the minds of the nations; but his heart, where it cometh, and where blood is shared, is in the fields. Men are still eating machines and reliquaries concerns. It is necessary to make every man a torch “.
I think that’s the reason why this year won the cameras of diversity for research projects on Community audiovisual and, in particular, indigenous and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and the Foundation for New Latin American Cinema (FNCL).
The research project is “The Mountain Television: A Community audiovisual experience.” I ask Daniel why he granted the laurel and I answered:
“The purpose of this research is to show, in black and white work of the Serrana TV you have premised on Participatory Community Audiovisual work, and 19 years working in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra, in the town of San Pablo de Yao, the municipality of Buey Arriba Granma located at the eastern end of the island of Cuba and visible, the cultural impact it has had on the community and society Cuban documentary work, and a series of cultural initiatives linked to the life of the inhabitants of this community.
“It is necessary to show the experiences and over 500 documentaries and national and international awards demonstrate the importance of documentary production (ie, art based on these parts of the country) in the broadcast media working in isolated communities. “
What achievements you see in this investigation?
-Awakening safeguards interest because of forgetting the cultural elements that characterize them, they work with their development, contribute to the decision-making of these communities and their directors in order to seek solutions to their problems, collaborate in the process of consolidating their identities, moral values show that keep the people still living in them, their importance in the economic development of the country, making the rest of the nation to recognize these communities as part of society and rescue the orality as a way to preserve memory .
How do you think do it?
‘From research to demonstrate what a community and features They make it different from the rest and as each of them is producer and reproducer of senses; visualize certain activities in communities of African descent whose cults are different from the rest of the country; show the elements of our aboriginal who remain in the life of these communities; evaluate the strategy for technology transfer to community members and noted that the community work will only be feasible when it is participatory and is used, thus a dialogic communication that allows dialogue between sender and receiver.
Who or what groups of creators have so far received the Award cameras diversity?
It’s delivered by the Foundation New Latin American Cinema and the Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, UNESCO, in Havana. This is the third time that they have received grants and other research projects in Latin America.
Is it still a dream of the mountain starry nights TV?
It’s the kind of dream that never ends, because it talks about the lives of men and women who inhabit the Sierra Maestra and its environment: nature and that is infinite.
the founding principles of this unique project maintained?
It’s a constant concern not abandon their principles of love to the people of these communities to raise their self-esteem and the rest of the country remember the cultural elements that are characteristic of this way of living in our country.
What andas work today involved?
I’m still teaching at FAMCA ISA, Santiago Alvarez Classroom School of Journalism at the Faculty Social Communication UH, making documentaries, preparing my PhD and dreaming other televisions as Serrana in the rest of the country.
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