CAMAGÜEY.- Cuban critics incorporate audiovisual language resources to participate in the 26th edition of the National Workshop of Camagüey, where they usually share presentations on Cuban and world cinematography.

Through small videos, with greater support in the images, they offer points of view in relation to filmmakers and films that, over the years, allow us to reflect on man, his fortunes and misadventures.

From the Nuevo Mundo Audiovisual Complex, the event flows via streaming, with transmission from the Facebook social network, and dialogue by group video call through Jitsi Meet.

"The Workshop is a pioneer in associating new technologies with cinema, since the seventh with the conference by Eduardo González Manet," said founder Juan Antonio García Borrero.

From Havana, Frank Padrón lamented the technological difficulties that prevent the desired interactivity, however he recommended adding this tool to the profile of the Workshop, when it can be resumed in person and physically.

"It is an effort to keep the Workshop alive," said Armando Pérez Padrón, coordinator of the Workshop and who later answered questions from an Internet user after giving his opinion on the film El Chicuelo, by Charles Chaplin.

The other presentation was defended by Daniel Céspedes, with his tribute to one hundred years since the birth of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, a symbolic way of looking at the drama of COVID-19 that today tears his country, his culture, his nation.

Tomorrow will be the time to share content contributed by Luciano Castillo, Antonio González Rojas, Mayté Madruga, Ángel Pérez, Mario Naito, Frank Padrón and Daniel Céspedes.

The presentations will be incorporated into the Digital Encyclopedia of Cuban Audiovisual (ENDAC), an invention of García Borrero to store, preserve and disseminate the knowledge discussed there.

The program includes the promotion of the magazine Sendero, number 22, which the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey dedicated to the 25 years of the National Film Criticism Workshop.

• Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez