The Abruzzo Film Commission has the resources. Or rather, it will have them shortly: the allocation is foreseen in an article of law, which will go to the Commission on Tuesday 25 June and, declared the group leader of Fratelli d’Italia Massimo Verrecchia, in the Chamber for final approval the following day.
Resources
One million six hundred thousand euros in three years. For 2024 there are 400 thousand euros, 600 thousand euros for each of the following two years. Here is the article, contained in a very complex law which intervenes in disparate subjects, including urban planning, culture, education: “In order to allow the contribution by the Abruzzo Region as sole founding member to the Foundation Abruzzo Film Commission, the Endowment Fund of the Foundation is established with an expenditure allocation of 50,000.00 euros for the financial year 2024. In order to guarantee the efficient and effective carrying out of the activities envisaged by this article, the Endowment Fund is integrated management of the Foundation with the contribution of 350,000.00 euros for the 2024 financial year and 600,000.00 euros starting from the 2025 financial year, for each subsequent year”, specifying later that it reaches 2026, given that the Budget extends up to this year, while afterwards “provision is made with the respective budget laws”.
Path
In recent days the councilors of the Democratic Party Antonio Di Marco And Pierpaolo Pietrucci they had criticized the lack of funds. A path, that of the Abruzzo Film Commission, which in the legislative context was marked by several stages. The last one was last January with the appointment of the members of the Board of Directors by President Marco Marsilio: it’s about Piercesare Ponds (president), from L’Aquila, film critic, film historian and teacher specialized in the analysis and teaching of audiovisual language coding; Then Peppe Millanta, from Pescara, writer, screenwriter, author and host of television formats; Fabrizia Aquilio, from L’Aquila, lawyer, former representative of the Minister for Foreign Affairs for the promotion of the cultural heritage of the City of L’Aquila. In July last year the venue was announced: Palazzo Dragonetti in L’Aquila.
The presence and operation of an Abruzzo Film Commission are regularly requested by audiovisual operators, and not only. The last time only in recent days, in the capital, by the mayors of Opi and Navelli, Antonio Di Santo and Paolo Federicofollowing the important recognition of the “Borghi sul set”.
