Italy: Abruzzo region launches Film Commission with a 2 million euros call

Italian region Abruzzo announced its Film Commission with the aim to attract and support productions and render service to the region. The President of the Region, Marco Marsilio, introduced the nascent foundation and anticipated the announcement of economic resources amounting to 2 million euros for productions in the fall and about 10 million euros in total over the next 4-5 years.

“Joining the family of the Italian Film Commissions means working to internationalize the Abruzzo brand and present ourselves in the audiovisual market not only relying on the wealth of natural sets in our Region, but also on the quality of the services that we are able to offer in terms of highly specialized workers, quality and quantity of infrastructures and accommodation capacity," explained Marco Marsilio. 

"A regional Film Commission structured and rooted in the territories, generates not only cultural growth and in terms of tourism, but also a greater ability to be attractive towards large national and international productions and new platforms interested in investing in Abruzzo. The goal is to make the audiovisual a development lever for territorial marketing and, last but not least - he concluded - the training of young people interested in undertaking this profession, which today to work, they are forced to seek their fortune elsewhere,” he underlined.

The undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, Lucia Borgonzoni, declared that, in terms of stories and territory to tell, Abruzzo is a region with a very rich heritage. Borgonzoni also said that the Government is fully committed to working as a team by investing funds and energy to increasingly promote this territory through a very powerful tool such as the audiovisual one.

According to the undersecretary, cinematographic and audiovisual products know how to involve and train the new generations and are able to increase the social fabric in cultural, occupational and economic terms. And Borgonzoni herself explained why the Ministry is developing a combined action (from the revision of the tax credit to the national coordination table of the regional Film Commissions passing through the summer campaign for "Cinema Revolution") which can contribute even more effectively to the development of the Italian film system.