Chile. The National Television Council, together with the Institute of Communication and Image of the University of Chile, held the international seminar "Chile in TV series. Production, stories and reception", with emphasis on the productions Los 80, El Reemplazante, Los Archivos del Cardenal, Ecos del Desierto and No, through three axes: Political-social coordinates of the series, Audience Views and Production Experiences.
The meeting was attended by Charo Lacalle, director of the Observatory of Spanish Fiction and New Technologies and academic of the University of Barcelona; along with ICEI academics such as Eduardo Santa Cruz, Lorena Antezana and Nicolás Acuña, director of the series "El Reemplazante", winner of the CNTV Fund.
In her presentation, María Dolores Souza, director of the Department of Studies of the CNTV addressed the relationship between the CNTV Fund and memory: "Policies to promote audiovisual development are based on the role of moving images, in them the senses of identity circulate and an idea of society is constructed. What is encouraged in its development is to promote one's own culture. The historical memory of a country is also constructed from the images that circulate in the public space. Television plays a central role in making this information available to people, as an expression of who we are."
"Television and audiovisual with meaning – historical, identity, cultural – are important and demanded by people, and in that context the CNTV has played a role in financing and supporting this type of content on television. In addition to ratings, today it is important to measure the impact of series and other audiovisuals. The public policy of promoting cultural production strengthens the heritage and identity of the national with the delivery of funds for historical achievements such as those addressed in this work. The data allows us to understand the expression that the viewing of these contents acquires in people," he concluded.
As a corollary to the meeting, the exhibition of the miniseries "A necessary story" was held, directed by the filmmaker Hernán Caffiero, and which includes some emblematic cases of disappeared in dictatorship, such as Ana González, Reinalda Pereira, Alfredo García, Julio Vega, Antonio Llidó, David Silberman and Claudio Thauby.
