Channel 22 Conaculta and the British Council contribute to strengthening cultural relations between Mexico and the United Kingdom to join forces during the celebration of the Dual Year 2015 by presenting a special program through cultural channel of Mexico. So they got to know Jessie Espinoza Olea, deputy director general of programming and address Channel 22 and Edgardo Bermejo, director of the British Arts Council.
Mexico’s cultural channel that coordinates the National Council for Culture and Arts joins the celebrations by transmitting a special program that includes the presentation of two series, British and Shakespeare and us.
The British series produced by the BBC recreates, in its seven chapters, the way Britain was formed, and tells the most important years of revolutions that shaped the freedoms and rights that currently account population.
Shakespeare and us is a documentary that examines how the creations of the writer, poet and playwright William Shakespeare transgressed the boundaries of time to stay in power, lasting two chapters which refers to the author’s personal issues as the separation of the wife, his son’s death and the arrival of the plague.
Meanwhile, Edgardo Bermejo made mention of the history of collaboration, but recent substantive and recognized the work of Canal 22 «on the strengthening of public television and its fundamental task to bring substantive content, weight, high quality for the viewer Mexican and commitment to broadcast television, plural and diverse to address the issues of our time and permanently is interested in dialogue with other cultures and other nations, such as including the UK. »
They said proudly of programming that will last for nine weeks from next Monday February 23 on Primetime 21:00. Edgardo Bermejo concluded that this is a step in a path of fruitful cooperation between the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Reference was also made to the entertainment program that is planning the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), whose primary focus is to promote the educational and social exchange.
In terms of documentaries, said Edgardo Bermejo, an important cooperation with two Mexican festivals: Traveling and Docs DF and one Englishman takes place in the city of Sheffield, this refers to a two-year project binational cooperation training young Mexican and British filmmakers who will visit the United Kingdom and Mexico, respectively.
