Within the framework of the celebration of the International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias (FICCI), which takes place in that Caribbean city between March 16 and 21, the Minister of Culture, Angélica Mayolo, presented the “Sandbox” program.
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The Ministry of Culture of Colombia announced this Thursday a new program, in collaboration with Netflix and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), that will help and train Colombian vulnerable youth and will provide them with opportunities in the audiovisual industry.
In the framework of the celebration of International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias (FICCI), which is celebrated in that Caribbean city between March 16 and 21, the Minister of Culture, Angélica Mayolo, presented the “Sandbox” program.
The objective of this initiative is “to train young people from regions of the country where it is not so common for these types of projects to be carried out.” It is “one of the best ways to create new opportunities for new generations,” said the minister.
The project will have an impact in six regions of Colombia, which are the departments of Chocó, San Andrés, Sucre, Caquetá and Cauca, and also Bogotá.
The program will bring the Colombian industry closer to some 1,500 young people at risk of vulnerability in some of the most remote territories and with the highest rates of inequality, and will focus on women, the Afro-descendant and indigenous population and the collective LGTBI +.
Young people will participate in training programs in different skills, such as makeup or wardrobe assistanceso that “they are protagonists of this great boom that we have in Colombia in audiovisual production” and that “all the regions of the country can have the human capital to develop audiovisual productions,” the minister explained in statements to Efe.
Of these, 100 will go to the last phase of “action and wheel” that will allow them to participate in local productions and in some Netflix productions, in addition to being accompanied by leaders of the audiovisual industry.
MORE TRAINING
At the launch of the initiative, Maryoli Ceballos, a Colombian indigenous filmmaker, celebrated that “paths have been opened from the territories, but training spaces have to be further strengthened”, since in the indigenous communities “processes are taking place from the communities’ own sense of telling what happens”.
In this context, “This proposal is applauded by the indigenous peoples”Ceballos indicated, although “it has to be expanded to more territories” because “from the peripheries there is much to tell, and we want to tell it from our voices, from our images.”
“Sandbox”In addition, it will seek “representation in front of and behind the screen, betting on the creative talent of Colombia”, training “new talents because there are no longer enough people for all the audiovisual demand” that there is in Colombia, specified, for its part, the Director of Audiovisual, Cinema and Interactive Media of the Ministry of Culture, Jaime Tenorio.
COLOMBIA, AUDIOVISUAL POWER
Minister Mayolo also highlighted that “Colombia is one of the main audiovisual powers in Latin America”, a milestone that has been achieved thanks to “a Government that strengthened tax incentives, institutional support to simplify procedures, human capital and creative talent and prepared, and a beautiful geography that make us a unique country”.
At this moment, “Colombia is one of the countries of Latin America with greater attraction for investment in audiovisual productions, with more than 16 international production companies developing series and films in the country with an investment that already exceeds one billion Colombian pesos thanks to an ecosystem of tax incentives”, insisted Mayolo.
“We will continue working so that Colombia becomes the great center of audiovisual production in Latin America,” concluded the Colombian minister.
The official also announced a new call for the Fund for the Film Developmentpromoted by the National Council of Arts and Culture in Cinematography, which “has contributed so much to national cinema, the emergence of new filmmakers and the positioning of our industry in the international field.”
