This morning was the final appointment of the General Assembly on Italian Cinema, promoted by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma within the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma. Today’s conference on Piracy and Audiovisual Crime followed discussions on New Regulations for Cinema Development (October 28^th) and Copyright (October 29^th).

There were 49 speakers at the event, representing institutions, businesses, universities and consumers, with a total audience of over 700 professionals.

‘The three appointments of the General Assembly on Italian Cinema’, continued Gian Luigi Rondi, ‘investigated threecrucial themes for the relaunch and development of the cinema and audiovisual industry in this important phase of transition from analogue to the new digital scenario. We have teased out some very useful elements which we intend to draw up into common factors to disseminate to the whole industry in the coming weeks‘. 

‘We visualised this General Assembly as an important occasion, bringing together all sectors of the cinema and audiovisual industry‘, concluded Gian Luigi Rondi, President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, ‘We are very pleased with the result and the productive involvement of institutions, businesses, writers and other members of this industry shows us how to move forward, bringing various issues to the attention of national decision makers because this industry is an important part of the national economy and can also contribute to development in other sectors.’

Speakers at the General Assembly included:

•           Luigi Abete, BNL

•           Ludovica Agrò, Ministry Economic Development – UIBM

•           On. Valentina Aprea, Cultural Commission, Chamber of Deputies, XVI legislature 

•           Giorgio Assumma, SIAE

•           Angelo Barbagallo, API

•           On. Luca Barbareschi, Fondazione Cinema per Roma

•           Roberto Barzanti, Venice Days

•           Carlo Bernaschi, ANEM

•           Lucia Bistoncini, SIAE

•           Gaetano Blandini, Ministry of Culture – Head of the Film Board

•           Dino Bortolotto, Assoprovider

•           Alessandro Braca, Confindustria Young Industrialists

•           Antonello Busetto, Confindustria – Innovation and Technological services

•           On Gabriella Carlucci, Partito delle Libertà

•           Leonardo Chiariglione, dmin.it

•           On. Andrea Colasio, Democratic Party

•           Gian Marco Commìtteri, Tonucci & Partners

•           Umberto Croppi, Culture commissioner, Rome Council

•           Pierluigi Dal Pino, Microsoft

•           Juan Carlos De Martin, Centro NEXA – Politecnico di Torino

•           Paride De Masi, Italgest

•           Ferrari Paolo, ANICA

•           Laurence Franceschini, Media Department, Prime Minister’s Office, France

•           Alberto Francesconi, AGIS

•           Virginia Filippi, SIAE

•           On. Francesco Maria Giro, Undersecretary of State for Cultural Heritage and Activity

•           Emidio Greco, Screenwriter and film director

•           Valerio Jalongo, Cento Autori

•           Mario La Torre, Università di Roma Sapienza

•           Manlio Mallia, SIAE

•           Gaia Mari, SIAE

•           Citto Maselli, ANAC

•           Sapo Matteucci, Vivaverdi

•           Enzo Mazza, FIMI

•           Massimiliano Molinari, Lawyer

•           Elio Molteni, AIPSI

•           Paolo Nuti, AIIP

•           Paolo Protti, ANEC

•           Stefano Quintarelli, Eximia

•           Davide Rossi, Univideo

•           Filippo Roviglioni, FAPAV

•           Massimiliano Raffa, Confindustria Rome

•           Gian Luigi Rondi, President, Fondazione Cinema per Roma

•           Marina Salamon, Altana

•           Francesco Scardamaglia, Cento Autori

•           Sandro Silvestri, API

•           Gigi Tagliapietra, CLUSIT      

•           Riccardo Tozzi, ANICA, Producers

•           Mauro Vergari, Adiconsum

•           Edoardo Winspeare, Film Director