A decalogue to relaunch cinema
The cultural world is launching concrete proposals after protests over FUS (Visual Arts Fund) cuts and that in mid-October mobilized the most prestigious names in cinema, theatre, music and dance. Last week, AGIS, an umbrella group for all the associations and organizations that work in the entertainment industry, promoted a General Assembly in Rome. The meeting offered an occasion to elaborate a decalogue of sorts for the relaunching of the sector, strategically assessed for the country’s economic as well intellectual growth, to submit to the attention of the government and major political forces.
The points of the decalogue are as follows:
1) To define the entertainment industry as an area of investment rather than expenditure, with adequate financial coverage that guarantees the certainty and stability of resources;
2) To reclaim the actual value of the FUS, coupling it to certain re-evaluative parameters;
3) To identify new financing strategies;
4) To free investments in entertainment from restraints stipulated by the Maastricht Treaty;
5) To define a law on the activities of all jobs within the entertainment industry, which regulate formation, professional access and the legal nature of business relations;
6) To provide the industry with a series of fiscal incentives that can back private investment contributions;
7) To provide for the direct presence of industry businesspeople and representatives in the definition of laws and regulations;
8) To overcome market distortions caused by the abuse of dominant positions;
9) To redefine and re-enforce the system of financial interventions in training and promotion;
10) To define a new and correct relationship between entertainment industry activities and television broadcasters.
The decalogue represents a discussion platform in view of the upcoming legislative appointments and proposals on tax shelters and the cinema tax. Unfortunately, however, the absence of Cultural Minister Rocco Buttiglione was very much noted at the General Assembly, despite announcements of his participation.
(Translated from Italian)
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