La Ley Federal de Cinematografía a 13 años de su reforma

Abstract

This paper gives an account of the discussion that took place in the House of Representatives in 1998, under the theme of the initiative of the Film Industry Act, which promoted social film community. The Federal Law on Cinematography, renovated in 1992, tended to sacrifice domestic industry and benefit the concept of entertainment, in order to signing the Free Trade Agreement of 1994, so that the reform bill of 1998 not only tended to a revival of this sector, but also was a project of great cultural and national content. The legislative debate was in a situation where Congress had become the political arenas in which different ideas were settled not only between political parties but among interest groups and the civil society too, which in the last decade have demanded greater participation in the construction of the public agenda.