HE filled with Congress On Thursday, March 16, he rejected all changes. vox Draft Law on Cinema and Audio-Visual Culture All parliamentarians, with the exception of the supporters and Citizens, who abstained, were opposed by the broadcast.
During the debate, many parliamentarians, particularly from nationalist or pro-independence groups, humiliated Vox. the text “sprays nostalgia for NODE” and their complaints mainly at political indoctrination, linguistic diversity, and subsidies to the audiovisual industry.
Meanwhile, Culture and Sports Minister Miquel Iceta defended the cinema law because it was “necessary” to update the 2007 rule, which he thought failed to meet the industry’s demands. “A law we consider very important for strengthening the audio-visual sectorIt is a rich, complex, diverse and ever-changing universe. It is not only the locomotive of today and the future, but also a source of employment and wealth.”
Iceta confirmed and claimed that with this norm, Spanish audiovisual will be promoted “in and out of Spain”: the importance of continuing to advance in equity in the industryhas also enabled it to strengthen the assistance system, “very specifically” independent production. “This government will never confuse value and price. Therefore, the law supports large productions, but also makes possible the existence of another more risky audio-visual. Can one consider a public museum where only successful artists are exhibited? Some people don’t seem like it. Understand that time is a risky bet and that the mission of the Ministry is to make culture possible in all its richness.”
Vox MP José Ramírez, who championed the full amendment, said for himself: the group is “surprised” by films that receive “thousands” of euros and still collect “hundreds” at the box office. He also criticized that some of the creators who received this help were “dedicated to insulting their public potential” and lamented that the audiovisual management model “promoted by the PSOE and supported by the PP” leads to “political militancy rather than talent”. “This squandering of public money is scandalous and cannot be explained by chance, it has been happening for years. A big change in philosophy could be expected when a new cinema law was announced, but there is no trace of that change. model in this law Waste of resources deepens and will lead to the lack of the most necessary opportunities,” he stressed.
Likewise, it has become outrageous that the Government has “dropped” independent production companies to approach the major audiovisual companies in Spain.
in relation to language diversity As the norm thinks, a Vox spokesperson thinks this will be the kind of cinema “even the actors’ relatives won’t see.” “There are movies like ‘Passion’ that have been shot in Minority languages, that have been shot in Aramaic and Latin, with great success, but most of the works that will be shot will be in the languages they promote. ‘La Piedad’ sounds like a tremendous success,” he said.
But the remaining parliamentary groups agree that the Film Act is “necessary” for the industry, although it lacks some “improvements.” But socialist MP José Losada opposed the Vox amendment as the text “did not allow even three half-baked amendments” and ensured that the Film Act was based on the principles of freedom of expression and pluralism, and they agreed on the figure of Carlos Saura. “This legislature will be the legislature of Culture. He blushes when he hears them talk about ideological impositions. Carlos Saura said in an interview that the censorship in Spain is egregious, referring to the long-awaited Franco dictatorship. This law struggle Francoism and also its sexism“, manifested
PP MP María Soledad Cruz stressed that the rule was “not too ambitious and innovative, but could be greatly improved” and recommended that procedures should be simplified and coordination improved to “pave the way for professionals”. “It is necessary to update the 2007 law, but it needs to be done well. Therefore, we registered a proposal for the sector to emerge in order to make a good law. Our seventh art makes us a more educated and critical society.. We need the General Audio-Visual Law and this law to be intertwined in order for Spain to be a center of attraction for audio-visual production.”
On behalf of Podemos, Pedro Antonio Honrubia described Vox’s change as “a reckoning with Spanish cinema” due to “an ideological trauma because they understood that many in the cinema were left-wing and progressive” and pointed to contradictions. causing its change. “You can’t take it seriously,” he said.
ERC’s Joan Margall Sastre talked about what Vox cinema would be like if she were in government. “Ortega Smith could embody some shabby, racist, macho cop role in Torrente, or it could be William Wallace, who fought on the Rock of Gibraltar in Braveheart, with his face painted the same red,” he said.
Based on the change, EH Bildu’s Mertxe Aizpurua warned that Vox perceives cinema as “a tool to manipulate, propagate, be sectarian and totalitarian”. “Vox wants the cinema to tell the story of Millán Astray rather than the story of Miguel de Unamuno.. His text reminds us of the censorship periods”, stressed that he describes the formation as a “Francoist, macho and warmongering” party, the terms finally withdrawn from the session diary at Vox’s request.
Vox for PNV MP Joseba Andoni Agirretxea, “a manifesto Ignorance of the Spanish governance modelIt seems that this law wants to resolve the issues that were left in the air in the previous regulation and there are contradictions such as lack of regulation in the regulation of production agreements with other countries or uncertainty about independent producers. Which definition will apply?” he asked.
Guillermo Díaz of Ciudadanos explained that the subsidy criteria needed “more consideration”, adding that it was “abnormal”, criticizing that there were films that received more help than they did at the box office. They “dope” shooting in languages other than Spanish. “It’s only in some people’s interest to confuse cinema with such quotas. It’s as if comedy is prioritized over drama.”