Fill it in movie theaters with schools in the morning. This is the plan prepared by the Ministry of Culture and whose owner, Ernest Urtasunhe announced this Friday in an interview with the Efe agency. An initiative that aims to create a film culture among the youngest and to help the operators.
The minister, who stressed that this initiative is already being successfully carried out in Franceordered a pilot program which is already being worked on by the general director of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), Ignasi Camós.
The program’School and cinema“It was implemented in the neighbouring country in 1994 in primary school – from six to nine years old – and in 2022 it was extended to nursery school – between five and six years old -. It consists of students attending at least three specific screenings per class, one per term, at a rate of three euros per session. This year, for example, they include the recent “Wallace and Gromit” or “The Adventures of Prince Ahmed”, from 1926.
This is one of the minister’s plans for bringing culture closer to the whole populationTo this end, the department he heads is also preparing other important initiatives for the next general state budgets, including the preparation of the Global cultural infrastructure plan in Spain (Pitec), “a mapping of all cultural infrastructures “to ensure that every Spanish citizen has a theatre, cinema, etc. within five kilometres,” he explained.
Based on this mapping of all regional, municipal and state cultural facilities, “we will direct the investments that we will make next year,” he said, to break down the geographical wall that prevents access to the arts to large sections of the population.
Regarding the perhaps even more fundamental economic barrier, Urtasun assures that more initiatives are being studied within the framework of the budgets after the success of the cultural bonus (400 euros for those aged 18) and senior cinema (two-euro tickets on Tuesdays for those over 65). “It’s true that the issue of overcoming the income barrier obsesses me,” declared the Minister of Culture, who took the opportunity to encourage young people who have not yet done so to apply for the cultural bonus.
