Colombia. The Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, Karen Abudinen, announced the allocation of 3,600 million pesos (about one million dollars) to finance the production of 300 audiovisual pieces in a strategy to alleviate the difficult situation that the acting guild is going through after the inactivity in its work.
The announcement was made at a follow-up meeting he held with the directors of the Colombian Association of Actors, ACA, Julio Correal, Diana Ángel and Martha Leal, with whom he reviewed the commitments made two months ago when he heard their concerns and suggestions amid the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the meeting, the minister said: "From minTIC we will support the guild of actors for the production of 300 homemade stories throughout Colombia, which can be made by natural persons who are part of the audiovisual sector. We've called this project Big Stories with Small Cameras."
What is the initiative?
The strategy will be launched through Canal Trece, which will select the videos that tell the most attractive and innovative stories and with the best quality to buy them and then broadcast them not only in their spaces but on the digital screens of regional public television.
Audiovisual productions can be made at home using the devices that workers in the audiovisual industry have at hand, whether simple cameras, cell phones or tablets, among others.
These videos, which will be created by experts and professionals in the audiovisual sector affected by the current crisis, will have a free theme and must be in the format of a web miniseries of three chapters each, with a duration of between four and six minutes per audiovisual piece.
"I want to invite all the people of the Colombian audiovisual industry to inform themselves about this initiative that we will do with Canal Trece, which will be in charge of executing this great project and that will be published on August 31," added the ICT minister.
With this initiative of the MinTIC seeks to benefit not only the actors but all the workers of the audiovisual industry, giving them the opportunity to tell and show stories with the creativity cultivated at home.
