Cuban television has a new project to indoctrinate Cuban minors: Fidel Castro’s childhood. According to an official, the goal is “to bring children closer to that human part of the leader of the Revolution, to his whims in rural areas.”
“We will face 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 photographs from then on. for us through the direction of Cuban television, “Ramiro Ortega, the main specialist of Cubavisión animation studios, told the Cuban television portal.
He acknowledged that during the coronavirus crisis, some animators worked elsewhere. “Many of the good animators we had, in times of crisis, looked for other ways to survive, without even having a computer in their homes,” he said.
Other projects
Animation studios in Cubavisión are working on Patricia Showcase, of which about 10 chapters will be filmed. “We will be filming the new season Teacher and at some point as well Piófilo and Cascarón, which is still being written. We will take several experimental projects as well Weird and Manita manota, both directed by Ivette Ávila Martín “, said Ramiro Ortega.
Cuban television will carry puppet works for children in space The dream network, in 10 chapters. Also a series of equal length, Diego’s theater, dedicated to the poet Eliseo Diego.
In space Watercolors from Cuba, the animator tells in 2D a story parallel to what Luis Carbonell, the watercolorist of Antillean poetry, recites in his poems. It’s in production Paper fables, with 3D animations.
“It is in the process of feasibility to see how we implement it, a project called Chimba, with a screenplay by Olga Montes and directed by René Martínez. It is about a little hutie who is adopted by a peasant family after her mother is captured by poachers. In the script, no animal speaks, only humans. It is a 2D animated production. We estimate that it will take about a year and a half or two, because each chapter exceeds 12 minutes, “Ortega said.