Sunday, March 13, 2011

GRANTS - Bad Scenario for European cinema

The prospect of Brussels limit or cut off public subsidies to European audiovisual production as part of its program MEDIA raised an outcry among all the great names of cinema on the continent. Countless directors have already signed a petition deploring efficiency plans by the European Commission in the field of cinema.

"We reject outright the removal of the Media Programme or even a merger within another larger program. We call on the President of the European Commission so that it receives as soon as possible a delegation of European directors, "requires the manifest. Yet some in the Commission wished to deny the proposed deletion: "The MEDIA Programme is not threatened, it is a great success," insists Dennis Abbott, spokesman for the Commissioner for Culture, Vassiliou.

It remains possible, however, that changes occur in the European program, first under the sector to adapt to technological changes, and secondly because of the inevitable ongoing fiscal adjustment in the institutions community. Launched in 1991, MEDIA European films will be paid nearly [...] read more on Presseurop.

euL'article original El Pais (in Spanish)

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