“In Calabria there is a foundation that manages 25 million euros in total absence of transparencya president who uses public funds to promote his political image, and a director who simultaneously does the head of cabinet of the region and the commissioner of the waste authority »La Calabria Film Commission by Roberto Occhiutois under attack. The M5S He held a press conference in Rende. The regional group leader Davide Tavernise and the deputy Anna Laura Orrico They presented a detailed dossier: 1,514 determines in three years, for a value of over 25 million euros, of which no one can know the content. Incredibly, on the Foundation website there is no trace of the administrative acts. “We can’t understand how this money is spent – Tavernise denounced -. There is no transparency. It does not even happen in a municipality of a few souls. The Calabrian Commission film has become a private fiefdom of Occhiuto, who transformed it into a personal propaganda machine. We witnessed extraordinary Calabria which is paid with community funds to publish a video of Occhiuto that attacks the opposition ». Mafalda Meduri
The reply of the Region
“In relation to the press conference held today by the 5 Star Movement regarding the activities of the Calabria Film Commission Foundation, we intend to specify the contents and forcefully rejecting the many inaccuracies reported, such as to confuse and mystify reality and to throw a veil of opacity on a great development project that had never seen the light in Calabria. The Film Commission Foundation works hardly in recent years to attract investments in the cinema in cinema in cinema in Calabria, give a gold bear in Berlin in 2023, a silver ribbon, a film next in competition at the Cannes Festival, prizes and presences in the major Italian and international festivals: Venice, Rome, Rotterdam, Goteborg, the United States, represent a total change of trend compared to past management. It is the result of public administrative courses, the only tool that can be prosecuted, given the fact that the Foundation uses European resources subject to rigid checks by vigilant authorities. So we find ourselves forced to clarify the following point as follows: economic and employment impact that can be consulted in the home page of the institutional site a report on the economic impact generated by the activities of the Foundation, created by one of the leading companies in the sector in Italy, PTS Clas Spa, already in charge of the study on the economic impact of the National Cinema Law, with the aim of monitoring and making any corrections for the actions taken and to be taken, which highlights the effectiveness, which highlights the effectiveness. of the work of the film Commission on the economic and employment fabric of the Region: the expenditure activated in relation to the cinematographic and audiovisual beneficiary productions of the Foundation’s support has activated a multiplier effect on the territory on the rest of the economy equal to 2.53 in terms of production, 2.40 in terms of added value and 2.23 in terms of employment. In other words, it means that for every 10 euros spent by the Foundation, 25.3 euros have been activated on the rest of the regional economy in terms of production, 24 euros in terms of added value and 22.3 FTE in terms of employment (full -time work units). 57% of the days of processing of the film productions supported are made in Calabria, with the consequent enhancement of the locations used and the local workers constitute 47% of the professionals involved in the productions made in the Calabrian territory (about 3,000 units employed from 2021 to 2023 for a monthly net average remuneration of € 1,688.24). These data refer to certain data up to now processed and estimates on the trend provide, to date, almost doubled values. The “Production Guide”, a tool offered by the Foundation to national and international productions for the search for workers and actors residing in Calabria through the research for profiles and the consultation of the curriculum counts, to date, 477 Calabrian professionals registered, 202 between actresses and actors, 17 production houses for support in executive production and 27 service structures. The study is still ongoing, continuously fueled by the new data deriving from the Foundation’s activities, and the updates that will be the subject of the second report, will be made public on the occasion of the next Venice International Film Festival “.