The black history of Mexican cinema, documentary to premiere on Canal 22 / @cultura_mx >>>
#Culture.- As part of the programming that celebrates World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the documentary La historia negra del cine mexicano (The Black History of Mexican Cinema) arrives on the screen of the Canal Cultural de México, the debut feature of director Andrés García Franco, who brings together film materials to build the three levels of this narrative: the history of Mexican cinema, the story of one of its greatest defenders and the family tree of this filmmaker.
Promotional The Black History of Mexican Cinema
García Franco takes up the struggle of his mother’s uncle Miguel Contreras Torres, filmmaker, defender of national cinema and author of The Black Book of Mexican Cinema, to show the entrails and trajectory of the seventh art in Mexico, starting in the last century, when the American monopoly managed by William O. Jenkins began, which by the 1950s had flooded 80% of theaters in the country, in addition to suppressing the export and exhibition of national audiovisual pieces and prioritizing films from the United States.
Based on archival materials and testimonies from different researchers, as well as the participation of figures such as writer Carlos Monsiváis and linguist Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, this feature film navigates the waters of memory through five moments: La vida inútil del tío Miguel; Meet Mr. Jenkins; Loco y Vagabundo; Rancho de mis recuerdos and Hombre o Demonio.
Directed by Andrés García Franco, a filmmaker who graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC) of the UNAM, now the Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas (ENAC), with sound design by Enrique Ojeda and animation by Magnolia Estudio and Edición limitada, this audiovisual work is a personal approach to the film industry and its institutional processes, which encouraged the growth of Mexican cinema after the golden age, and which permeated the interest of audiences in Mexican filmmakers’ projects. This documentary can be enjoyed on Thursday, October 24, at 11:00 p.m., on Canal 22.1 and via streaming on Canal 22’s website.
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