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Culture, April 23, 2009

A new screen for Argentine cinema

The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts has launched the Space Incaa Km 2 in the City of Buenos Aires. With this screen, there are 21 fully dedicated to the promotion of local films in the entire country.


Aniceto, Leonardo Favio´s film, got 9 awards, such as Best Film and Best Director.  (Leonardo Favio)

The new space, consisting of 167 seats, is located in Piedras 736, in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires and works in the courtroom drama The Mask. During the opening film was screened "Aniceto", the last production of the renowned director Leonardo Favio.

Spaces INCAA
scattered across the country, are part of a program of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts was established in March 2004 in order to ensure the exhibition of film productions Argentine-fiction films and documentaries and short films, including the premiere trade throughout the country at affordable prices.

Since its inception, the program sought to recover the country's cinematic tradition, linked to the experience of cinema as a cultural and social event as well as entertainment and art object. Thanks to the Venues INCAA, who joined the opening 21, people of all ages and across the country can attend the theater and enjoy high-quality programs with the latest achievements Argentine film-and also from other countries, for a price very accessible, in addition to rebates generated from management and signing of agreements between the federal and INCAA unions, guilds and associations to a nuclear broad spectrum of workers and students.

The opening ceremony was led by Liliana Mazure, Inca's owner, Hugo Yasky, general secretary of the Central of Argentine Workers (CTA), Roberto Baradel, secretary general of the Unified Union of Education Workers of the Province of Buenos Aires ( Suteba) and Norberto Gozalo, Secretary of Culture of the CTA. Also present were the actors Raúl Rizzo, Juan Palomino, Arturo Bonin and Mary Fiorentino, singer and dancer Copani Ignacio Hernán Piquín, protagonist of the film "Aniceto".

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