The Italian government on Monday approved a €130 million ($145 million) aid package to shore up the country’s film and TV sector that is being hard hit by the coronavirus crisis.
Italy is suffering the biggest coronavirus outbreak in Europe with 27,980 cases and 2,158 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
The emergency subsidy fund will help exhibitors, distributors, and producers who are bearing the brunt of being in lockdown mode, besides individual workers including the estimated 173,000 Italians laboring in local film and film-related businesses 112,000 of which are free-lancers. “It’s a good start,” said Francesco Rutelli, head of Italy’s motion picture association ANICA (pictured) who called the
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