F.C. Calabria announces new financial awards for film industry
- Three million euros spent on production, post-production and distribution. Specialisation courses in scenography, costume design, photography and editing
The Calabria Film Commission Foundation, together with the Region of Calabria, is about to announce new sections within its Regional Operative Programme seeking to build a regional cinematographic production entity for production, post-production, and cinematographic distribution endeavours, including projection initiatives. The total investment for these activities will amount to three million euros.
President Gianluca Curti made the announcement during the recent Venice Film Festival. The Calabria Cinematographic Festival will be a part of the overall project, coproduced by the European Union. The ultimate goal will be the promotion of cinematographic culture in Calabria. This will also be done through highlighting local cinema culture, as well as local filming, landscapes, actors and writers. The Festival will be divided up into three sections, with one overseeing board: La primavera del Cinema (spring cinema) – Federico II Award, the Reggio Calabria FilmFest and the Magna Graecia Film Festival, for a total intake of 1,750,000 euros in the 2012-2014 period.
Through Calabria’s training and work department, more specialty oriented cinema courses will be offered in the technical fields of scenography, costume design, photography and editing, training sixty students to whom professional training will be given by international-level teachers, for a total revenue of 720,000 euros.
(Translated from Italian)
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