In 2019 the Direzione Generale Cinema e audiovisivo, part of Italy’s Ministry of Culture, created this fund.
The goal is to strengthen international collaboration by encouraging Italian film-makers to think globally – “promoting cross-border co-productions while also helping Italian and European films and audiovisual productions find distribution in Italy and abroad”.
Among the winners of the 2020 project call:
- “La Tresse”, the next film by French director Laetitia Colombani,
- “Los impactados” by Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo,
- “Baltazar” by the Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski
- “Il volo” by Italian Pietro Marcello
Their call for proposals is aimed at projects with a foreign co-producer but in which the Italian share of the budget is less than 50%. The fund’s annual budget is €5 million. Aid per project is capped at €300,000, of which 80% must be spent in Italy. Since the 2019 call for projects, grants have been awarded to 79 films co-produced with 30 countries.
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Sources: cineuropa.org, cinema.beniculturali.it
