Cuban television has a new project to indoctrinate Cuban minors: Fidel Castro’s childhood. According to an official, the aim is to “bring children closer to this human part of the leader of the Revolution, to his mischief in the countryside.”
“We are going to tackle a project, which does not yet have a title, about Fidel Castro’s childhood. It takes place between 1926 and 1932. The illustrations will be animated and we want to use photos from the time. It is a task that suits us. assign the direction of Cuban television, “Ramiro Ortega, chief specialist at Cubavisión Animation Studios, told the Cuban television portal.
He acknowledged that during the coronavirus crisis, some animators worked elsewhere. “Many of the good entertainers we had, during times of crisis looked for other ways to subsist, by not even having a computer in their home,” he said.
other projects
Cubavisión Animation Studios are working on Patricia’s shop window, Of which about 10 chapters will be filmed. “Let’s film the new season of the teacher and, at some point, too Piófilo and Cascarón, which is still being written. Let’s take on more experimental projects like the rare i Manita manota“Both directed by Ivette Ávila Martín,” said Ramiro Ortega.
Cuban television will bring works with puppets for children in space Dream altarpiece, In 10 chapters. Also a series of equal duration, Diego’s theater, dedicated to the poet Eliseo Diego.
In space Watercolors from Cuba, the entertainer narrates in 2D a parallel history to which is reciting in his poems Luis Carbonell, the watercolourist of the Antillean poetry. It is in production Paper fables, With 3D animations.
“It is in the process of feasibility to see how we implement it, a project called Chimbe, written by Olga Montes and directed by René Martínez. It is about a small girl who is adopted by a peasant family after her mother is captured by poachers. In the script no animal speaks, only people do. It is a 2D animated production. We estimate it will take about a year and a half or two for each chapter to exceed 12 minutes, ”Ortega said.