The government is set to help an
Italian cinema industry that has been hard hit by the COVID
pandemic and a steep decline in the number of cinema goers,
Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said Friday.
"There'll be a decree on tax credits for cinema that will try to
give cinema a hand, above all Italian cinema, a decree that will
be for Italian films", said the minister.
Sangiuliano defended a measure recently passed after being set
up by the previous government that earmarks 10 million euros for
cinema ticket discounts.
"It's a measure set up by my predecessor, and if we hadn't done
it we would have lost the funds.
"I think that with this discount we can incentivize people to
return to the cinema, to appreciate the value of the big
screen".
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