*Adrian Jaime’s films recovers memories of popular struggles in Buenos Aires
*The govt. has also established prohibitions for filming
*The govt. has also established prohibitions for filming
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00:00And in Argentina, among the many attacks by President Javier Millet on everything related to art and culture,
00:05cinema is perhaps the most damaged.
00:07Our correspondent Fabián Felestibo with the details.
00:15This is Argentine film director Adrián Jaime.
00:18Telesur spoke to him to find out how things are going in the audiovisual world,
00:22one of the sectors under attack by the government of Javier Millet.
00:27It becomes difficult to counter everything because you are not on equal footing for the fight.
00:35His films recover, among other things, the memories of the popular struggles in Argentina,
00:40which makes Adrián Jaime one of the government's main targets.
00:47Adorni accused us of having received 15,000 US dollars to make a documentary film, which is not true.
00:53Our film is called Burn Them. It is about the Cordobazo.
00:57We reconstruct those two historic days with the pure archive material.
01:01We did all the sound, we were working on the sound during the whole pandemic.
01:05Less and less is being filmed.
01:07This year, five films were filmed via the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisuals, out of the usual 200.
01:16The Argentinean government has also established a series of prohibitions for filming.
01:21You can't talk about Perón, nor about the achievements of Kirchnerism,
01:25nor film with, for example, the popular singer Lali.
01:33There is a cultural battle, a battle that is not lost but is never settled.
01:37I don't believe that the 600,000 jobs that this industry generates,
01:41600,000 direct jobs, plus another 400,000 indirect jobs,
01:45an important portion of the GDP,
01:47where jobs are generated not only for those who are in front of the cameras,
01:51such as actors or directors,
01:53but for everything that is part of the audiovisual ecosystem.
01:56Those who are in front of the cameras, the directors, the actors,
02:00but for everything that is part of the audiovisual ecosystem,
02:07hotels, logistics, carpenters, electricians.
02:10All of that, at some point, due to the systematic attacks that have been taking place,
02:15is surely going to emerge as a second criticism.
02:26The director's concern is not only cinema, of course.
02:37Argentina's film industry is going to be diminished.
02:41Today, we are in a process of resistance,
02:44and of seeing how it can be sustained.
02:49We are trying to leverage what they are trying to destroy,
02:52or what they have broken.
02:54International entities, the most diverse in Latin America, Europe and Asia,
02:59have declared themselves in favor of sustaining,
03:02as Leonardo Sparaglia said, not only Argentina's cinema,
03:05but sustaining Argentina.
03:09From Buenos Aires, for Telesur, Fabián Restivo.