Boom in requests to make films and TV series in Sicily. As reported by the Giornale di Sicilia, the large film and television production companies choose the island, starting a sort of auction to secure the contributions that the Region has put on the table to finance filming using Sicilian operators and actors.
The production houses
73 production companies responded to the call published last March 22nd: 50 of these presented projects to make films and TV series, another 21 would like to shoot documentaries and another two short films. The Department of Tourism and Entertainment, led by Elvira Amata, has published the decree which formalizes the requests admitted to the subsequent evaluation phase, kicking off the race for funding.
The projects
A second evaluation by the Film Commission will assign a score to each project and decide how to divide the 3 and a half million budget to assign the contributions. The project with the most important investment is the one presented by Bibi Film, the Roman production company that shot the series on the investigations of Commissioner Lolita Lo Bosco: it has production costs of 17 and a half million and has asked for a contribution of 500 thousand euros . Palomar also asked for 500 thousand euros for the new season of Makari.
