Televisión Serrana

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Televisión Serrana (TVS) is a media educational film project in the Cuban Sierra Maestra mountains that has existed since 1993 . It documents the cultural and social life of the mountain dwellers, who live far from urban civilization, especially from agriculture, and encourages them to participate in media production and to consciously confront their identity. TVS was founded by documentary filmmaker Daniel Diez Castrillo and supported by the Cuban National Broadcasting Authority (ICRT), the National Association of Smallholders (ANAP), the Cuban Government and UNESCO's International Program for Media Promotion (IPDC) .

As part of the project, numerous residents of the region have already been trained in audio-visual work techniques and have been involved in the creation of contributions. By 2011 TVS had already produced over 500 documentaries. The contributions made by various local production groups will be demonstrated both in the region and in other parts of Cuba. Although TVS is part of the state broadcasting authority, only a few documentaries are broadcast on television, which is also subject to the ICRT. An important element is therefore TVS's own mobile traveling cinema based on a laptop, video projector and bed sheet, with which the films produced can be made accessible to the residents of the mountain villages, which are severely isolated due to the lack of transport. Some of TVS's films have already been presented at international festivals and won prizes.

Televisión Serrana is located in the mountain village of San Pablo de Yao in the province of Granma , which belongs to the municipality of Buey Arriba . The creative group primarily responsible comprises seven directors and a further seven experts responsible for production, editing, sound and camera. TVS has around twenty employees in total, in addition to external filmmakers with whom individual projects are realized. Shortly after the founding project a collaboration between TVS and created the International Academy of Film and Television (EICTV) in the south-east of Havana located San Antonio de los Baños . This ranges from material donations to the participation of TVS employees in EICTV workshops to regular exercise productions that documentary film students at EICTV create in the TVS catchment area.

In October 2015, the Cuban state television recognized TVS founder Daniel Diez with the annual national television prize for his life's work.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ TV Serrana (Highland Television). Project documentation in the UNESCO IPDC database, accessed on October 22, 2013 (English)
  2. ^ TV Serrana & Participatory Television in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. Washington Office on Latin America Podcast April 1, 2011, accessed October 21, 2013
  3. ^ A b Ute Evers: farmers as filmmakers. ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mmm.verdi.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: “M” Menschen macht Medien 1/2013, accessed on October 22, 2013
  4. ^ Grupo de creación. ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tvserrana.icrt.cu archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the TVS website, accessed October 21, 2013 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ La EICTV felicita a la TV Serrana por su 20 aniversario. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eictv.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. News from January 2013 on the EICTV website, accessed on October 25, 2013 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ Entregan Premio Nacional de Televisión 2015 a Daniel Diez Castillo. In: Juventud Rebelde of October 24, 2015, accessed on November 2, 2015 (Spanish)