The new Federal Cinematography Law is ready to be published; will come into force in 2025

The wonderful new Federal Cinematography Law will come into force in 2025: It is ready to be published, but I want to get involved to know not only what we are going to do, but to share with President Claudia Sheinbaum what it is about.informed The Day the federal Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza.

In an interview, he explained that he is reviewing this rule in detail with the director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), Daniela Alatorre Benard, as well as with a committee made up of “film people who have worked on the law to understand well what it is. goes and have the dialogue with the groups that must be had, to make it clear where it is going.

It is a very important law that had to be updated a long time ago. The previous administration left it to us so that we could make the decision to review it with the new team, which is appreciated. It is practically ready; We are simply reviewing the fine print.

No clipping at Imcine

The Secretary of Culture explained that there is no reduction in the budget that Imcine will have for next year. “It does not decrease at all, just like that which will be given to artistic creation; Even the former Fonca had an increase of around 50 million. What we are going to do at Imcine is analyze how to improve the calls, make them more accessible and balance resources, see if we need more for distribution or production.

“Daniela Alatorre, who has been a producer, is getting into the depths; Talk to the entire community, independent and commercial. It is a broad interlocutor, to improve mechanisms and resolve issues such as support that was previously multi-year and is now restricted to a certain use.

We are going to work on more efficient mechanisms so that producers and filmmakers can jump from one support to the other. For example, we are analyzing what percentage will support debut films to guarantee them; That is, systematize and see that nothing is left out and identify areas of opportunity. Later we will present the new projects.

Curiel said that they requested an increase for the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution and Support for Investment Projects in Artistic Production. that have been without an increase for years. Many people think that this is about the companies that help very well, but it is still a resource from the State that it is not receiving, and finally it is support for creation. We are working to see if we can achieve an expansion, and that will go directly to film production and distribution.

Academic project for the CCC

The official also announced that with Dinorath Ramírez, new director of the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC), they are carrying out an academic project to strengthen that school and, above all, “secure and guarantee first films, and to link the CCC, which It is the training area, with Imcine, with calls such as the Encouragement for Audiovisual Creation in Mexico and Central America for Indigenous and Afro-descendant Communities.

Calls like this one, which were necessary and urgent, we are also going to strengthen them and find a way for the productions to circulate in festivals, to have distribution, because all the cinema that is made, if it is not seen and does not go to festivals, will not exists. Let our cinema be seen, let it be known, let it transform. Later we will announce the details of the cinema policies and their adjustmentshe concluded.