Eugenio Monzón: "we must ensure that the film industry contributes 5% of the Community's GDP"

The new general director of the Valencian Institute of Audiovisual admits in an interview that his goal is that the cinema contributes 5% of the GDP of this community, he points out that the model of the Alicante Festival should be Cannes and bets on promoting mythical terra for outdoor filming.

Eugenio Monzón, director of the Valencian Institute of Audiovisual, in an interview published today by José Luis Morales in the newspaper The truth He points out that his goal is against the current 1%, "get the film industry to contribute 5% of the GDP of the community." Eusebio Monzón has been for a few days, after passing through the city of Luz, general director of the Valencian Institute of Audiovisual, an entity created in the Law of Accompaniment to the Budgets of the Generalitat for 2009, which arises from the transformation of the former Valencian Institute of Cinematography Muñoz Suay-Filmoteca Valenciana.

On the financing of the audiovisual, Monzón assures the truth that he intends to “maintain a meeting, together with the Minister, with the entire sector to address its problem and claims, and to discuss the document on the incentives for its financing, whose basis proposed by us is 16%, and which is accepted by the sector”. On the role that the City of Light will play within the new Valencian Institute of Audiovisual, its director points out that “the City of Light will continue within the society of great projects of the Valencian Community (SPTCV) as a great engine of this community that we are going to enhance, although there is logically a coordination between the two entities in terms of the system of aids that will depend on this organism, while the Alicante complex will Its excellent facilities available to producers so that they can work. Are you there, by the producer Arcadia, with whom we were negotiating throughout the last year the filming of four annual films in the complex, as with producer Gerardo Hierro, who has a commitment to produce four annual films. ”

Another novelty advanced by Monzón is that, coinciding with the Mostra in October, they plan to organize a Congress that serves as a meeting point between producers and investors, thus taking out the most of the new law of cinema that allows significant relief of up to 18% constituting groups of economic interest.

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