Many films, in 2021 with the tax credit you financed 481 works

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 28 - Many films, few collections: Italian cinema at double speed.

A very high number of productions and a quality not directly proportional to quantity.

The resumes are at full speed, the workers are nowhere to be found, the Italy of cinema and TV is on the set, but for which audience given that the box office receipts are at an all-time low?

Won't it be too many of these movies?

The production bubble is ready to burst and the issue is urgent after the alarm raised by the director Alberto Barber who, presenting the Venice Film Festival 2022, said: "Many Italian films have arrived, many below an acceptable quality, not for the history of Italian cinema. ".

    Meanwhile, the numbers, the source is the Mic and they are truly impressive: 301 fictional works, 165 documentaries and 15 animated films have requested and obtained the subsidized tax credit in 2021, an avalanche if you think that in 2020 there were 115 plus 80 documentaries and in 2019 74 works of fiction, 48 documentaries and 1 animation project.

A boarding of nearly 500 tax credit securities covering 40% of eligible costs, public money that is among the 750 million euros of the ministry fund divided into many items including this one.

    There is a theme of financing, of too easy access to production with the risk of making films that are end in themselves and without a market, at least when it comes to cinema for the hall.

The CEO of Medusa Giampaolo Letta is convinced of the anomaly, "we are in a loose mesh system, so many films are financed".

    He tells ANSA Nicola Borrelli, head of the Cinema Directorate at the Ministry of Culture: "It's true, the numbers are high, the increase is significant and we are already intervening in 2022 and even more in 2023 to avoid any risk of distortion".

    "The real challenge - underlines Benedetto Habib, president of the producers section in Anica - is to rebuild the relationship with the public".

In 2021 (source Cinetel) 153 Italian films were distributed, a market share collapsed to 20%, while 2021 production was around 250 films.

(HANDLE).