On with the 90s
In 1991 Viviana and Juan Esteban Cordero write and direct the film "Sensaciones", which wins best sound at the "Festival de Cine de Bogotá" (Bogotá film festival). That same year the national secretary of communication along with ASOCINE organize the First contest of national fiction video ( Primer Concurso Nacional de Video Ficción). 19 works participate in this contest.
In 1992, Tania Hermida premiers her short "El puente roto" (the broken bridge), produced by the Escuela Internacional de Cine San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba.
The indigenas through the "CONAIE" (short for Confederación de Nacionalidades indígenas del Ecuador) organize the "Primer Festival de Cine y Video de las Naciones de Abya Yala"(first film and video festival of the Abya Yala nations). 130 works took part in this festival, coming from Alaska to Chile. Amarun, a work of Oswaldo Guayasamín was awarded as the best of show.
In 94, the President of Ecuador Sixto Durán Ballén, in an evil gesture Vetoes the Law of Cinema. That same year, the film "Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda" by Camilo Luzuriaga is filmed and then released in 1996. Also in 96, the film by Camilo Luzuriaga "Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda" wins best artistic direction in "La Habana" along with best script and best sound track in Trieste, Italia. In 96, the city hall approves the film showing regulation which frees of taxes on movie theater tickets and leads to the renovation, modernization and creation of movie theaters, like Multicines with 8 screens and Cinemark with 7. Multicines that first year claims 800,000 spectators.
In 2000 Víctor Arregui shows his first short "El tropezón". In the Venician festival Sebastian Cordero dose the world premiere of "Ratas, ratones y rateros" which receives the award of best film and (mejor opera prima) in the Latin American film festival in Trieste, Italy. The film also wins best actor for Carlos Valencia and (mejor opera prima) in the Iberoamercan festival of film in Huelva Spain. In the XXI festival in La Habana, Sebastián Cordero and Mateo Herrera win best editing. The film also breaks the Ecuadorian record for most watched in its time with 10,000 people in the first few weeks.
In 2001, an important happening for independent film happens in Quito, the Ocho y Medio film screens open as an alternative to commercial screens. .
In 2002, Mateo Herrera premiers his first full length feature "Alegría de una vez" which wins best film and best script at the "Festival Internacional de Cine Atlanta Dohlonega". Víctor Arregui also premiers his film “Fuera de juego”, which wins the odd prime film in construction at the 50th film international film festival in Donostia Spain. Also in 2001, John Malkovich films in Ecuador his film "Pasos de baile". Pablo Mogrovejo films the documentary "Ecuador versus el resto del mundo".
In 2003 Juan Martín Cueva and Víctor Arregui create "Cero Latitud", a organization which looks to produce cultural events and audiovisual events. "Cero Latitud" as its first act organizes "Festival Iberoamericano de Cine Cero Latitud", which become an annual event. Also that year Camilo Luzuriaga from that year forward the 7th of august will be known as the day of Ecuadorian cinema in homage to Augusto San Miguel for the premier of the first Ecuadorian feature film in the 7th of august in 1924. An IMAX screen opens in Guayaquil. In Cuenca, Patricio Montaleza organizes the first International film festival in Cuenca, more than 70 films from around the world are shown.
In 2004,Camilo Luzuriaga premiers his film "1809-1810 mientras llega el día" about the first try on Ecuadorian independence. Sebastián Cordero with the help from Ecuador, Mexico and Spain produces and releases his feature film "Crónicas", which participates in 50 festivals and wins 12 international awards.
In Guayaquil, a group of 100 kids gets to make video shorts of their everyday life , helped by the CEFOCINE they produce: “La banda del Capiruca”, “Res, el perro policía”, “La navidad y la familia Mosquera”, “Un viaje hacia el pasado”.
In 2005, the film "Qué tan lejos", was made with direction and script from Tania Hermida. Also Sebastián Cordero won with his film “Crónicas” best picture, best script, and best actor at the "Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara". CEFOCINE and ASOCINE show a few shorts a piece, from varying themes such as the first female voter, indigenes in Bolivia and defenders of the rainforest. Also, the film “Esas no son penas” by Anahi Hoeneisen, is realized.
In 2006, on the 24th of January, congress approves the creation of ways to obtain credit to create the "Fondo de Cine" or the state film budget, along with the "film law" and the law to "Promote film in Ecuador law". ASOCINE calls to the election of the national council of cinematography, which will be held responsible to manage all the money around the film grant giving.
In Guayaquil, the First International Guayaquil Film Festival takes place (Primer Festival Internacional de Cine Guayaquil Film Fest). Víctor Arregui wins the Augusto San Miguel prize which is given to works in process of creation. “Qué tan lejos” becomes one of the few films that regain its investment in the national circuits.
In 2007, the films:”Se que vienen a matarme” (Luis Campos Yánez), “Al filo del amor” (Luis Zambrano), “Mete gol gana” (documentary by Felipe Terán), “Cuando me toque a mí” (Víctor Arregui).
(From this point onward the information on Ecuadorian film becomes unreliable, based largely on opinions and little facts.)
CONCLUSIONS
When did film change, when did it become art as a part of our culture from being a road side attraction? Because it wasn’t that way in the start and it didn´t change all at once, it needed a landing, sort of like a hive mind planning. It needed rots it needed branches and it needed a background to grow fruits.
Who was the landing? It was a mix actually something in between TV or the creation of national free TV and the two movies that were right for its time in the 80s; “La Tigra” and “Los hieleros del Chimborazo”.
The creation of TV brought the image to the people, to see something that moved something that happened and was you didn´t need to go the theater you could be at home you could watch at home. So, the idea of image made for the people was taken into account and rationalized as a part of everyday culture. TV was there and it stayed in people´s heart.
But, what about “La Tigra” and “Los hieleros del Chimborazo”? They represent the two sides of film in a modern way, the documentary in its Andean mountain ice cold form and a fiction in its Manabitan form in “La Tigra”.
These elements helped form a "landing” so to speak for the mind of a movie that changed everything in Ecuadorian cinema. It changed the ways the film in Ecuador was looked upon from within the country and from without. It changed the conception of the economic principles of film in the country. It tipped the scales I´m talking about “Ratas Ratones y Rateros”.
The film that united the coast and the mountain land, the middle high and low class in one film it was the first purely Ecuadorian movie. It had everything from every range of the country, every part, every type of person, the good the bad the father and the mother. It was all there, if you were en Ecuadorian, you had a character that was on your side politically economically and geographically.
The film was the first of its kind to have financial success in Ecuador alone and international success in the film festival circuits. In Ecuador, it had 10,000 spectators in its first weeks.
The film paved the way for the next Ecuadorian films. It made people conceive of the existence of film in the country. Movies like “Cuando me toque a mi”, “Qué tan lejos” or “Los Canallas”, have fallowed the way that “Ratas…” paved for them, imitating the neorealist Italian approach, by trying to touch effectively every segment of society to have the same effect as “Ratas…” of everyone having someone to root for.
But we are just at the tipping point, a great tipping point, the generation that will work in the 10’s will be great, they have no fear of failure , always they have had an existent Ecuadorian film industry, they lived and were young when “Ratas…” was premiered and they have know and probably seen the current mini hits like “black mama” or “Cuando me toque a mi”, so they know it is possible.
Pulse in 2005, the INCINE opened under the head Camilo Luzuriaga and has been teaching people the art of filmmaking, teaching that new fearless generation, the new generation of middle class hippies who use apple computers wear designer jeans and talk politics as if it is a soup opera, they are the future like it or not. Film in Ecuador changed in 1999 and will never be the same.
Works Cited:
http://elimperdible.ec/web/cine/una-olvidada-epoca-de-oro-del-cine-ecuatoriano.html- By
paulinagr86
Published: 2010/04/17
http://www.edufuturo.com/educacion.php?c=1900- by Wilma Granda
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