Argentina. Within the framework of the Benteveo Program, which aims to value the materials produced through the Competitive Fund for Audiovisual Media, Fomeca, the National Communications Entity, Enacom, decided to launch the Benteveo Channel, to make available to the general public more than 300 hours of content made by community media, of border and native peoples.
The initiative of the Benteveo Program, seeks to value the materials produced through the competitive fund, form a memory of productions that serves as a background for the different calls and that works as a guide for future productions, as well as encourage the transparency of the promotion policy in its dissemination.
In this way, the Benteveo Channel - which will be available on the YouTube platform - is composed of more than 700 chapters of almost 500 productions that account for more than 300 hours of audiovisual material on various topics, made by Fomeca winning entities from all over the country, among which stand out contents related to human rights, food sovereignty, rights of children and adolescents, gender and diversity, Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE), community productive experiences, disabilities, Malvinas Islands, among other topics. It should be noted that the "Canal Benteveo" is permanently updated with new productions.
The material will allow us to appreciate the production of content as only community, border and indigenous media can do. Their approaches and perspectives enrich the plurality of voices, in addition to promoting local productions in different parts of the country.
The Competitive Development Fund for Audiovisual Media (FOMECA) makes it possible to redistribute the resources that come from the large commercial media (levies and fines) to promote processes of technological updating and production of content of radios, channels and community producers and indigenous peoples.
In its ten years, 699 entities were winners of FOMECA with 2,897 projects, distributed in 52 contests. The total amount awarded is more than 1,800 million pesos.
