Incaa executive allays funding cut fears
A senior figure at Argentina’s film body has told Screendaily he does not believe the incoming centre-right government will slash arts funding.
Bernardo Bergeret, head of international affairs at Incaa (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) and co-director of the Ventana Sur market that wrapped last week in Buenos Aires, was speaking on the eve of the start of Mauricio Macri’s new term.
Victory in the national polls for the pro-business mayor of Buenos Aires on November 22 ended the 12-year rule of the left-wing, Peronist Front for Victory (FpV).
It also sparked fears among the local film industry that state funding of film and other sectors would decline.
“We will still have funding of cinema,” said Bergeret. “I don’t think there will be any big changes.”
Yet others at Ventana Sur were not so confident. Cambiemos (Let’s Change) party leader Macri ran on a platform of slashing public spending, lifting currency...
Bernardo Bergeret, head of international affairs at Incaa (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) and co-director of the Ventana Sur market that wrapped last week in Buenos Aires, was speaking on the eve of the start of Mauricio Macri’s new term.
Victory in the national polls for the pro-business mayor of Buenos Aires on November 22 ended the 12-year rule of the left-wing, Peronist Front for Victory (FpV).
It also sparked fears among the local film industry that state funding of film and other sectors would decline.
“We will still have funding of cinema,” said Bergeret. “I don’t think there will be any big changes.”
Yet others at Ventana Sur were not so confident. Cambiemos (Let’s Change) party leader Macri ran on a platform of slashing public spending, lifting currency...
- 12/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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