What you need to know:
The Cineteca Nacional de las Artes will open this Wednesday, August 16 and, for a week, the functions will be totally free.
Have you seen the photos on social media? We went to the new National Cinematheque of the Arts and here we tell you all the details that movie lovers need to know about this new venue that will open its doors this Wednesday August 16, 2023.
The new National Cinematheque of the Arts
Before telling you the costs, promotions and other details that we are sure you are eager and eager to know about the new National Cinematheque of the Artsit seems pertinent to talk a little about its history and the place where it is located, since out there they are confusing this headquarters with the one that is still being built in the Fourth Section of the Bosque de Chapultepec.
The National Cinematheque “came back” to their place of origin
Maybe many of you don’t know it, but The first headquarters of the Cineteca Nacional was in the Churubusco Studios, although it caught fire on March 24, 1982..
Yes, in a strange accident that to date has not been fully clarified, since there are many theories around what could have caused the fire that left people dead, several injured and a film heritage and artistic turned to ashes (Do you want to know more about this? here we leave a text about it).
For this reason, two years later, In 1984, the Cineteca Nacional moved to the place we all know now: on Avenida México Coyoacán 389, in the Xoco neighborhood of the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, Mexico City.
Now, with the inauguration of the new Cineteca Nacional de las Artes, it could be said that it returned to its place of originsince even though will be within the facilities of the National Center for the Arts (CENART)this site is located right next to the Churubusco Studios, where its history began.
Just to be clear, the new Cineteca is on Avenida Río Churubusco 79in the Country Club Churubusco neighborhood, Coyoacán mayor’s office.
How is the new Cineteca Nacional de las Artes?
During their presentation, the cultural authorities, including the director of the Cineteca Nacional, Alejandro Pelayo Rangel, and the head of the Ministry of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, explained that The new Cineteca Nacional de las Artes will have 12 exhibition halls, three with 3D projectors, with a total capacity of 1,300 people.
On the other hand, through the National Transparency Platformthe Trust for the National Cinematheque told us that the parking lot will have up to 994 spaces for cars and motorcycles, if they are not going to arrive by Metro; which by the way, It is very close to the General Anaya station on Line 2.
Of course, they clarified that This headquarters will not have spaces to protect film material, nor exhibition roomsunlike its sister on Avenida Coyoacán.
And the popcorn? Obviously there will be shops, restaurants and cafes where you can buy snacks, sweets and drinks.
How much was spent on this new headquarters?
“The investment here, for the Cineteca Nacional, is practically entirely from the Cineteca itself, it is an economy that is recovering and that recovers quickly through ticket offices, cafes, the different services that are provided”.
Around here —in the press conference they organized to present the Cineteca Nacional de las Artes— Alejandra Fraustro explained that the money used for the remodeling of this new headquarters is financed by the Cineteca itself.
How much has it come out for? According to Alejandro Pelayo, we are talking about a investment of around 48 million of melonswhich come from the savings of the Cineteca Nacional.
“This has been covered with surpluses or savings from the Cineteca Nacional, two thirds of which are generated by our own resources, out of a budget of more than 150 million pesos, we regularly generate 100 million pesos a year. 50 is from resources that goes to the predial“.
Pelayo foresees that in 4 months find a balance point and little by little the Cineteca Nacional recovers its investment —with the help, of course, of the people who visit its movie theaters.
(We open a parenthesis here just to tell you that this new Cineteca Nacional is on the ground that certain chain of cinemas occupied until September 2021thanks to a government concession that lasted more than 20 years.
And that, for this reason, at least they were saved from paying the property tax because it is federal land).
Costs, hours and more
Finally we come to the costs and we have good news for you, since the price of the General admission to the new Cineteca Nacional will be 60 pesos —the same as his sister in Xoco.
40 pesos for under 25s, students and elderly people. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays the cost of the ticket will be 40 pesos for any performance —although the discount does not apply to shows, forums or emerging talent.
He parking ticket will cost 30 pesos for cars and 15 for motorcycles —with free time fee in the purchase of the ticket.
There are other details like that at the box office will not sell tickets for a performance 10 minutes after it starts or that people will be able to buy their bowls online, although you will have to present an identification — it remains to be seen how they will enable their platform.
And the service hours will begin at 10 in the morning and until its last function, from Monday to Sunday.
Another great thing is that during its first week of release, the functions in the new Cineteca Nacional de las Artes will be free.
The idea is that the Cineteca Nacional de las Artes premieres its facilities on August 15 in a private function and for the media. Then, on August 16 it will open its doors to the public.
The first week the functions will be free and the remaining three weeks the tickets will be 2×1 —in a program of films dedicated to Mexican Cinema and to pay homage to actress María Rojo.
The Chapultepec Cinematheque
As some believe that the new Cineteca Nacional de las Artes is the one that is still being built in the Fourth Section of the Bosque de Chapultepec, We take the opportunity to tell you just how the works of this headquarters are going and other information that we know about it.
The project of the new Cineteca in the Bosque de Chapultepec
If they don’t remember, The Cineteca Nacional del Bosque de Chapultepec is part of the project that AMLO announced in April 2019when he revealed that several renovations and works would be carried out to create new attractions in the so-called “CDMX lung”.
That’s right, at that time, the man from Tabasco proposed that this area of the capital had to become a “new ecological, artistic and cultural space”, which would begin right with the birth of the Fourth Section, where the new headquarters of the Cineteca is now being built.
Thus, the Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that would donate more than 70 hectares of the land of the F1 Military Camp, so that they would become the Fourth Section of the Bosque de Chapultepec.
So, in July 2021, this area opened its doors to the public to offer cultural activities. Although the new Cineteca and the Bodega Nacional de Arte are not yet ready.
What will this headquarters have?
The Trust for the National Cinematheque told us that the Bosque de Chapultepec headquarters will have eight exhibition halls, with a total capacity of 1,800 people, but also an outdoor forum with space for 300 more.
while parking will have only 222 drawers for cars and motorcycles.
Like the Cineteca Nacional de las Artes, it will not have a space to protect film material, although it will have a multipurpose place where some exhibitions will be presented. and obviously also will have shops, restaurants and cafes.
The money that has been spent for its construction
Although via transparency the Cineteca Nacional did not talk about the budget of the headquarters in Chapultepec, we know that there is an approximate investment of 135 million pesosin accordance with the minutes of the decision of the tender for its construction and Channel 11.
How much are the tickets at the Cineteca Chapultepec?
The good news is that the ticket price will be the same as that of the Xoco Cinemas and the Arts.
Goes again: 60 pesos general admission. 40 pesos for children under 25, students and seniors.
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays the cost of the bowl it will be 40 pesos for any function. and in As for the outdoor forum, there will be free features. Although in the case of premieres, they still do not decide the prices.
How are you? The projects of the Cineteca Nacional de las Artes and Chapultepec look pretty good, right? Do you plan to launch at least the first new headquarters?
