Luanda — To overcome the crisis and re-launch the sector's development, the Ministry of Culture (Mincult) foresees the construction of a cinematographic campus in the country's capital according to information from the incumbent minister Boaventura Cardoso.

Speaking to ANGOP, the government official who considered the state of cinema in Angola as catastrophic, stated that the cinematographic campus is part of a plan of projects planned by Mincult, aimed at building and rehabilitating cultural infrastructures.

According to the minister, these are projects resulting or of instructions from the Third Symposium on National Culture held in September 2006 in Luanda, and which the Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos talked about at the opening ceremony of the same event.

The intention, stressed the Culture minister, is to turn operation the national cinematographic sector that has not been operating for various years, considering the reactivation of sites of leisure and amusement.

"It will be a complete campus that will execute the whole process concerning the production and projection of movies "- he highlighted.

He also called for the intervention of the national enterprise in the development of cinema, because to his understanding, only waiting for the State to do so will be almost impossible to improve the sector.

As to the Boaventura Cardoso there is great human potential, with the need only to create actions in the field of production and in the distribution circuit.

Within the infrastructures framework, Boaventura Cardoso announced the start of construction works, this year, of the Medium Institute of Arts, and later the Higher Institute of Arts, the Museum of Contemporaneuos Arts, Cultural Centres throughout the country and the Artistic Training Institute.

Relating to Ngola Cinema, the minister said that the company that bought the space already presented a project for the reconstruction of the infrastructure, with the works not having started due to difficulties on the plot.