Over 10 years ago, specialists from the Culture sector and the Communication and Information sector of the UNESCO Office in Havana created the Cameras of Diversity regional project. Its main objective was to show the value of diversity and local cultures through the audiovisual and the cinema.
A way to implement the 2005 Convention
Over 10 years ago, specialists from the Culture sector and the Communication and Information sector of the UNESCO Office in Havana created the Cameras of Diversity regional project. Its main objective was to show the value of diversity and local cultures through the audiovisual and the cinema. A way to implement the 2005 Convention
Over 10 years ago, specialists from the Culture sector and the Communication and Information sector of the UNESCO Office in Havana created the Cameras of Diversity regional project. Its main objective was to show the value of diversity and local cultures through the audiovisual and the cinema.
A way to implement the 2005 Convention
Over 10 years ago, specialists from the Culture sector and the Communication and Information sector of the UNESCO Office in Havana created the Cameras of Diversity regional project. Its main objective was to show the value of diversity and local cultures through the audiovisual and the cinema.
UNESCO’s first efforts focused on transferring technologies and technical knowhow to the less represented local communities in Latin America and the Caribbean so they could insert their own story in the new digital media, thus contributing to the intercultural dialogue needed to build more equitable and democratic societies.
After the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions was ratified in 2007, the project became an effective instrument to help public institutions and civil society generate measures and policies, as well as implement actions that would contribute to improve cultural policies at the different stages of the value chain of goods, products and services in the audiovisual and film sector.
Since then, the project has conducted specialised capacity-building events in different disciplines (screenplay, production, direction, management, among others); has mobilised resources from civil society organisations and public institutions to invest in generating capacities and resources; has created and managed subtitling and dissemination platforms; and has generated discussion forums, where specialists of the sector have discussed and proposed actions to improve the production and distribution of films made in the region.
Since 2012, a new formulation of the project is underway at the sub-regional level. Under the title Caribbean Cameras of Diversity, a series of actions have been designed to improve the performance of the sector in the sub-region relative to economic factors, social and cultural integration, and employment job generation. The project is conceived as a road map helping all key partners and actors in the region to join forces and coordinate actions that strengthen the sector. Some of the partners of the project include the New Latin American Cinema Foundation (FNCL) and its academic project, the San Antonio International Film and Television School (EICTV) in Artemisa, Cuba, the Cuban Institute of Cinema Art and Industry (ICAIC), the Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival, the Caribbean Association of Film Festivals (ACFC), and the Caribbean Association of Film Commission (ACCC).
A specialised workshop to improve capacity building in festival management
The first action foreseen within the framework of the sub-regional project is a specialised capacity-building activity for film festival managers and directors in the region. Its aim is to strengthen these spaces so they can serve as platforms to provide visibility and contribute to the distribution and insertion of productions made in the Caribbean in regional and international commercial circuits. For this purpose, a technical team has been formed to assess festival needs and priorities. Through a questionnaire jointly prepared by UNESCO Havana, FNCL, EICTV, and ICAIC with the help of experts from the Caribbean and important European film festivals, the quality and characteristics of the festivals will be evaluated in order to design a context-specific programme and effectively select the content and facilitators for the workshop.
The week-long workshop will take place from 13 to 19 December at the facilities of the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and Television School, in Artemisa, Cuba. The process of selecting participants, facilitators and the elaboration of final draft of the programme is still a work in progress.
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