Alfonso Blanco (Portocabo), at the head of the Galician Audiovisual Cluster until 2026

La última Asamblea General Extraordinaria del Galician Audiovisual Cluster ha servido para elegir la nueva junta directiva de la asociación, con Alfonso Blanco (Portocabo) como presidente.

En este nuevo periodo, que se extenderá durante los próximo tres años, Alfonso Cabo contará con el apoyo de Gaspar Broullon (Ollovivo Producións) como vicepresidente, el tesorero Manolo López Cernadas (TEX45 Producións) y los vocales Fernanda Tabarés (Voz Audiovisual), Borja Pena (Vaca Films), Luisa Romeo (Frida Films) y Óscar González (Instituto Tecnológico de Galicia). La secretaria-gerente seguirá siendo Mar Varela.

El nuevo presidente, responsable de la popular productora gallega Portocabo, aprovechó la ocasión para agradecer a su antecesor, Jorge Algora, six years of “exceptional work”, in which he has “expanded the mass of cluster partners” turning it into a “plural entity”. In his own words, Blanco assumes the position with “continuing will” and advocates continuing to work so “that the Cluster is as representative as possible of the entire sector and adding new associates.”

Some of the first challenges that Blanco (Portocabo) will address are achieving a Film Commission autonomous level alongside the Galician Government, the obtaining European funds of an industrial nature for the sector, the opening and use of the new filming infrastructure in the ICT City, or progress in the actions of internationalization. He has also pointed out as the entity's strategic lines the areas of training and innovation, in which it is expected to develop driving projects in both fields that are useful and of interest to companies and professionals in the sector.