Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan filmmaker Óscar Gil challenged young people from Huila on Saturday to bet on short documentaries, to participate in the next DocLuanda, which will take place in April 2024, in the country’s capital.
The also owner of Cineteatro Óscar Gil Produções, said that the idea is to start taking the first steps in terms of cinema, to record what is available locally, as there is a lot of history to tell in cinematography.
“We are not going to want to make American cinema, with a super production, but badly done, we have many young people who have imitated America, but we do not have the training, nor the financial power to support such a production”, he said.
To this end, he said that young people have an important tool in their hands, a high-quality mobile phone, and Óscar Gil Produções and the Association of Cinema and Visual Audio Professionals (APROCIMA) can provide technical support.
The filmmaker, who was speaking during the International Documentary Film Festival, called “DocLuanda”, which Lubango hosts until Sunday the 16th, promoted by the production company Criacom/BCC and Óscar Gil Produções, in collaboration with APROCIMA, asked interested young people to register themselves to start taking their first steps in terms of cinema.
Óscar Gil said that they are currently preparing a camera operator and drone piloting course.
He made it known that after DocLuanda, they started to have sessions of national cinema at the cineteatro, which has two rooms with the capacity to accommodate more than 90 people, with films produced in Luanda and which are already making their way.
He referred that the films will initially be aimed at people over 12 years old, but later on they will think about having sessions for children, a work to be developed with school institutions, which could help to rescue the habit of watching films in cinemas and not in residences.
He made it known that they are preparing the National Film Festival (FECINA) in August of the current year, within the framework of the Festivities of Nossa Senhora do Monte, with the aim of being another step towards transforming Lubango into the city of national cinema.
During the four days, several documentaries are being shown, some of which won the best of the year category, in the two editions already held of DocLuanda, in the capital city.
In addition to films, the activity exposes national production linked to the production and directing of films, handicrafts, painting, as well as registration for short courses focused on video editing, camera operator, photography, scriptwriting, actor on stage, storyboard, director, production and television journalism.
DocLuanda as such is an event conceived and programmed by filmmaker Jorge António, in partnership with Camões and Fundação BAI and produced by Criacom/BCC and Mukixe Produções, whose second and first edition took place in 2022 and in the current year, in Luanda .
It presents itself as an event aimed at documentary cinema that aims to “encourage cultural exchange” and establish a contemporary vision of the World and Angola through cinema and its history, contributing to the future of the Angolan cinema panorama.
The event has several activities, but the highlight is the international and national film competition, a dispute that is not being held in the DocLuanda show that Lubango is hosting for the first time.
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