Radio-Canada announced on Monday that it will no longer broadcast the Gala Québec Cinéma on ICI Télé. The management of the Gala Québec Cinéma has been notified.
Posted at 5:21 p.m.
Updated at 6:48 p.m.
“She had been informed last June that we were considering such an eventuality during a meeting following the last gala. After careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion that other strategies can allow us to more effectively increase the visibility of local films and cinema artists,” writes Radio-Canada in a brief press release published late Monday. afternoon.
The state corporation intends to offer, next year, a “special variety and interview program” to “contribute to the influence of local cinema and give the public even more of a taste for seeing films”. The release date has not been specified. The show good evening hosted by Jean-Philippe Wauthier during the summer season will also offer a new concept to “celebrate” cinema.
Québec Cinéma reacted to this announcement by expressing its deep disappointment and by calling on Radio-Canada, after consultation with the representatives of the associations who sit on the professional representation committee, to reconsider its decision, as the gala prepares to celebrate the next year its 25e anniversary.
“Radio-Canada, as a public broadcaster, has always been able to promote regional and cultural diversity and thus contribute to the development of local talent and culture. We now hope that the broadcaster will pursue this essential mandate, especially at a time when the Quebec film industry has been strongly affected by the pandemic of the past two years.
We are eager to work on a solution in order to celebrate our cinema as it should be in a renewed awards formula. “said the organization in a press release.