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Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia 2009
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Artists and workers of the Italian movie industry have used the opening of The International Show of Cinema Art in Venice to censure the cuts by the government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi who has just announced that will dedicate only sixty million euros to Italian showbiz.
In Venice at the opening of the “Mostra” this limited appropriation was not considered enough by other protesters who believe that “Culture is a right”. Their spokesman was the actor and director Sergio Castellitto, backed up by the very popular comedian and director Carlo Verdone who anticipated that up to three hundred movie theatres could be forced to close down because of this reduction of funds.
After receiving the answer from Minister Sandro Bondi the actor Stefano Accorsi declared to the press that cutting the funds to the Italian show business does not mean eliminating resources for a frivolous field of activities but for two hundred and forty thousand Italian families.
The 2009 edition of The International Show of Cinema Art in Venice finally started according to the plans and four Italian movies will compete in it. Particularly exciting the participation of George Clooney who has in Como, on the enchanting lake, his second home and who has already become legendary among Italian ladies. His arrival at Venice Lido with his new girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis is polarizing everybody’s attention and it is sure that tabloids will find a lot to write about because of the rumors that are circulating.
A movie from the director Giuseppe Tornatore will be presented at the opening and after that one by Michele Placido, one by Franceso Comencini and another by Giuseppe Capotondi.
The director Marco Muller, in spite of the actual difficulties, is convinced that this is a good time for the creativity of the Italian movie industry and that, in his opinion, this situation is even more positive and surprising also because everyone should consider that the movie industry had already been influenced negatively by the global economic crisis.
This concept received confirmation by the President of the Venice Show Paolo Baratta who declared that this edition is particularly interesting because of the participation of great authors and that the vitality of the Mostra drives to invest in its quality and in its further development.
In Rome, in the meantime, less optimistic people put up a demonstration against the fund cuts that limit a traditional, favorite form of entertainment.
Some of the Roman girls, who were part of this organized protests, were dressed dramatically in a mourning robe and waved posters translating in many languages the sentence “Death in Venice” predicting an unlikely doom of Italian showbiz.
360 degrees Italy: Showbiz
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