The Film Academy presents the project “The Network Cinema Academy” in Pamplona

The institution and the Government of Navarra focus the beginning of their cooperation on education and training.

This Monday in Pamplona, ​​the Film Academy held an event to present its decentralization initiative, with a focus on expanding academics throughout the national territory and intensifying cooperation with local agents. At the same event, the Government of Navarra presented the main lines of its policies to stimulate the creative and cultural industries, with emphasis on the audiovisual sector, whose agents participated in a busy colloquium.

Audiovisual activity in Navarra is currently of growing importance, as witnessed by the fifteen feature films planned to date for 2017 alone, based on the audiovisual incentive generated at the beginning of 2015 and which has seen its consolidation after the approval of the European competition authorities in August 2016.

The Film Academy and the Government of Navarra, as a result of this meeting, have committed to developing a training program for professionals in the sector, in order to complement the skills of the professionals that make up the value chain of audiovisual production that exists today in the Navarrese territory. In a complementary way, the Academy has expressed its commitment to training in the school environment in the field of cinematography at the national level, an aspect in which it also seeks intense cooperation with the Navarrese Government, and for which there are already concrete approaches.

Several dozen Navarrese professionals participated in the debate around the main activities of the institution, especially focused on the updated requirements for the entry of new academics, the organization of the Goya Awards, the new reality of the industry with digital distribution platforms, and the new production formats.

The Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth of the Government of Navarra, Ana Herrera, participated in the event, which had the support of the Navarra Film Commission; the Navarrese academics Puy Oria and Julia Juániz; and the new general director of the Film Academy, Joan Álvarez.

In addition to the initiatives presented, the Film Academy's project 'More women in cinema' aroused particular interest and debate, which will soon have a specific forum at the Zinemaldi in San Sebastión-Donostia, co-organized with the Festival itself, the ICAA and the Ibero-American Federation of Film Academies.