The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today encouraged the more than 700,000 people over 65 in Galicia to take advantage of the new edition of the ‘Senior Cinema’ Program of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, which covers tickets to film sessions on Tuesdays up to 2 euros.
Pedro Blanco, together with the deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, and the manager of the Cantones Cines de A Coruña, Ricardo Federico Magán, accompanied this afternoon a group of people over 65 years of age to the screening of the film ‘Menudas pieces’.
The delegate showed his confidence that this year’s program, which began on April 30, will increase the figures reached in its first edition, which extended between July and December last year and in which 167 cinemas in Galicia and a total of 16,861 people participated. This year the program will be extended until December and has a budget of 12 million euros, two more than in the last edition.
Pedro Blanco added that this year, as a novelty, discounted tickets can be purchased both at the box office and by electronic means and that last year the Senior Film program managed to increase on average 49% attendance at movie theaters on Tuesdays.
As the delegate recalled, the Senior Cinema program is one of the Government’s initiatives in support of culture and the film industry, among which he also highlighted the more than 600,000 in grants granted last year to the exhibition halls from which 15 Galician companies benefited, including the one managed by the Cantones Cines.