Minister Bondi fights to save cinema funds
In a letter in this morning’s daily paper Corriere della Sera, Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi says he will fight to decrease the cuts to the FUS Culture Fund (see news).
"I am certain that my friend and colleague [Minister of the Economy] Giulio Tremonti will be sensitive to the pleas of an industry that has rendered Italy famous throughout the world and which contributes significantly – naturally, more than it receives in public resources – to the country’s economy,” writes Bondi.
With regards to cinema, Minister Bondi says he is in favour "of creating a National Agency, which both the majority and opposition agree upon, in which the film industry would take full responsibility in flanking the state to create a new line of industrial and cultural development.
“Lastly, I am inclined to favour a wide policy of tax exemption measures, of which the recently approved tax shelter and tax credit for cinema are just the first steps, which would help our country go beyond the state-controlled centralism that has marked the cultural industry, with waste and errors that in part justify a different use of public monies".
To read the letter in its entirety (in Italian), please click here.
(Translated from Italian)
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