The new director of Abruzzo Film Commission starts today in L'Aquila: Alessandro Voglino, 69 years old, from Milan, has a long experience in the planning and management of cultural policies, including in the film sector in both Milan and Rome. He was previously founder and director of the Lombardia Film Commission.
He joins the president, Piercesare Stagni, film historian; Peppe Millanta, screenwriter and TV host; and Fabrizia Aquilio, lawyer and professor of Law and Economics.
Objectives for the Film Commission include bolstering the structure to attract film and television productions, to thereby provide economic benefits for the territory: both immediate, e.g. accommodation and employment of local audiovisual professionals, and medium and long term, with the cascade effect on tourism.
"We are finally giving Abruzzo a tool that the region has expected for over twenty years” said the President of the Regione, Marco Marsilio. “With the operational launch of the Film Commission and appointment of a director with proven experience, we are providing substantial support to a project that is able to generate significant economic, employment and reputational impact, along the entire audiovisual sector supply chain. Our goal is to attract national and international productions, boost professional skills and artistic excellence in our region and develop a lasting strategy of film touris. Our proximity to Rome makes us particularly attractive with unique scenarios and operational support just steps from the capital of Italian cinema. There is great interest in this new space that is opening up, as demonstrated by the response to the opening for a director from professionals of the highest profile".
During the press conference, the logo of the Abruzzo Film Commission was presented, created by the Academy of Fine Arts, with the symbol of the new visual identity and the region's ambition to become a reference point in the national and international audiovisual panorama.