The Assembly of ANICA (National Association of Audiovisual and Multimedia Film Industries) re-elected Francesco Rutelli in the role of President for the next three years (therefore until October 2022). On the unanimous indication of the three sections (Producers, Distributors, Technical Industries) the former mayor of Rome was first designated by the ANICA Council as the only candidate, and then unanimously re-elected by secret ballot.
Today was important for ANICA also due to the coincidence of three events:
- The 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Association, born on 10 July 1944. With the dissolution of the FNFIS (which brought together the entertainment industries during the fascist regime), the first elected President of ANICA (then, National Association of Cinematographic and Related Industries) was Alfredo Proia; he resumed, already during the Second World War, the push towards an entrepreneurial valorisation, and not only of propaganda, of cinematographic activities. In the post-war period, ANICA would be the protagonist of a real season of redemption of Italy's international image through Cinema;
- The signing, which took place at the headquarters of the Association, of the National Collective Labor Agreement for employees of the Cineaudiovisual Industry. At the renewal table, with the Presidents of ANICA and its three Sections, the Secretaries of SLC/CGIL, FISTel/CISL and UILCOM/UIL.
- The 2nd meeting of the Cinema, Audiovisual, Digital Council. Two items on the agenda of the new Council, strongly desired by Francesco Rutelli to connect the different worlds of creativity and the cinematographic, audiovisual and digital industries in the context of changes and global competition:
- Content industries and digital transformations: balances, compromises, alliances. The new horizons of regulation; international, European, Italian; Google's choices; the objectives of the Italian companies that create, produce and distribute. In comparison Antonio Nicita (AGCOM Commissioner), Francesca Mortari (YouTube South Europe Director), Riccardo Tozzi (Cattleya, ANICA), with an open dialogue to the participants in the Council.
- How to strategically qualify the Training and Education activities currently lacking in the supply chain. Our proposals.
According to Rutelli, "the growth of ANICA, in which the large associations of the Exercise, those of Cartoonists and Exporters participate, is marked by the strengthening of the sections of Producers, Distributors and Technical Enterprises, and by the entry of new supplier companies of avant-garde services, digital content creators and talent promoters, new original producers, specialized audiovisual content publishers”.
“2019 scores a positive turnaround in cinemas, also the result of the collaboration of the entire supply chain to relaunch the summer season; it will see the approval - thanks to constant dialogue with the government - of the new rules for investments and programming by TV and digital platforms; the continuation, hopefully accelerated and simplified, of the implementation of Law 220/2016″.
“The product of Italian creativity is growing, with a demand that requires greater private investments and secure public management to face the enormous investments of new global subjects in cinema and audiovisual in the major European countries and in the world. The growing demand for content also requires us to strengthen our capabilities to co-produce for an international audience and to train new professionals able to compete in a radically transformed creative and industrial ecosystem".
