No one is a prophet in his country: director Guillermo del Toro launched a call on Friday for the broadcast in independent Mexican cinemas of his latest opus, Pinocchio, while denouncing “the systematic destruction of Mexican cinema”.
The production house PimientaFilms “is looking for independent rooms” in three states for the distribution of the film, indicates the director on his Twitter account, citing the defection of a large distributor, Cinemex.
The latter would have retracted, according to specialized magazines, because the film might only stay two weeks exclusively in theaters from November 24, before being included in the streaming offer of the Netflix catalog.
Bardo, the film by another giant of Mexican cinema, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is theatrically in Mexico exclusively ahead of its next Netflix listing.
Mr. del Toro also considered that “the systematic destruction of Mexican cinema and its institutions – the construction of which took years – has been brutal”.
The director shared the press release from the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (Amacc) announcing a “postponement of the call for the 2023 Ariel Prize” (the equivalent of the Oscars in the United States, the Césars in France or the Goyas in Spain) due to a “serious financial crisis”.
The Mexican Academy regrets that “support from public resources has decreased considerably in recent years”. “The State, which has been the engine and the support of the Academy for a long time, has renounced its responsibility as the main promoter and broadcaster of culture in general and cinema in particular”, affirms the Amacc.
Other cultural sectors have also complained regarding budget cuts by the left-nationalist government since it came to power at the end of 2018.
At the same time, the latter claims to promote the culture of indigenous communities.
“It’s not regarding denying anyone’s artistic expression (…) they’re all on the same level. There is not a scholarly art and a popular, despised art,” Jesus Ramirez, the president’s spokesman, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, told AFP last week on the sidelines of four days of artisans’ parades. natives to Mexico.
No one is a prophet in his country: director Guillermo del Toro launched a call on Friday for the broadcast in independent Mexican cinemas of his latest opus, Pinocchio, while denouncing “the systematic destruction of Mexican cinema”. PimientaFilms “is looking for independent rooms” in three…