Televisión Serrana
Televisión Serrana ( TVS ) is a 1993 existing media educational video film project in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. It documents the cultural and social life far removed from the urban civilization mainly living from farming mountain people and encourages them even to participate in media production and the conscious struggle with their identity on. TVS was founded by documentary filmmaker Daniel Diez Castrillo and from the national Cuban Broadcasting Authority ( ICRT ), supports the National Association of Small Farmers ( ANAP ), the Cuban Government, and the International Programme for media promotion ( IPDC ) of UNESCO.
During the project a number of inhabitants of the region have been trained in audiovisual techniques and involved in the creation of posts. By 2011, TVS had already produced over 500 documentaries. The contributions made by various local production groups are presented both in the region and in other parts of Cuba. Although TVS organizationally belongs to the Broadcasting Authority, a few documentaries on the ICRT also imputed television broadcast. An important element is therefore a TVS own mobile traveling cinema on the basis of laptop, video projector and a bed sheet, with the residents in the due to lack of transport among themselves strongly isolated mountain villages, the films produced are made available. Some of the movies of TVS have already been presented at international festivals and won awards.
Seat of Televisión Serrana is the part of the municipality Buey Arriba mountain village of San Pablo de Yao in the province of Granma. The main responsible credits comprises seven directors and seven more in charge of production, editing, sound and camera experts. Overall, TVS has twenty employees, in addition to external filmmakers with which individual projects are implemented. Shortly after the founding project a collaboration between TVS and the International Academy of Film and Television ( EICTV ) in the south-east of Havana Plaza de San Antonio de los Baños arose. These range from donations of material on the participation of TVS employees at EICTV workshops to regular exercise productions that create the documentary film student EICTV in the catchment area of TVS.