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Taxpayer money for Netflix series about Fabrizio Corona: Giuli do something

In the Ministry of Culture, especially in the General Commission for Films and Television, this number is still not appropriate. From the point of view of the taxpayer, of course. Because, from the point of view of the beneficiaries of the funds of the Via del Collegio Romano church, film and television producers, broadcasters and platforms of many countries, this number is indeed high.programs of little or no public interest, some of which are not shown in cinemas and others in theaters that have been abandoned, but which in the past years have been supported in various ways and with tens of millions of dollars in contributions from the Ministry of Culture, the first that the government of Sangina Gennaro received from the Ministry of Culture.Sangiuliano and Alessandro Giuli, after all this he hopes that the rules for the allocation of the same funds have been significantly modified. Unfortunately, it seems that we can say with some regret that this is not the case.

In recent days, the newspaper revealed that the controversial documentary Fabrizio Corona - I, a current affairs project planned on Netflix from January 9, received nearly ,000 800,000 from the Ministry of Culture (3 793,629), apparently a third of the total budget (4 2,448,556) to make it. However, “We are the producers involved in makingideation, writing, adaptation and production of audio content for a variety of media: television, films and websites,” however, he said and convinced a major platform to broadcast a documentary set by Aldo Grasso on Corriere della Sera is “a bad business that tries to manipulate crime (fraud, fraud, fraud).Possession of counterfeit money…) to unscrupulous people of our time.

However, it is not about the morality of the subject of the work or its quality.But the amount of government contribution provided by the tax credit mechanism is a bad tax credit.In other words, it is not a "selective contribution", i.e. funds assigned after a panel of experts has studied the script, assessed the need to encourage authors to create their first work or to reward efforts to produce an art house film or a film of cultural interest for its "artistic, historical or anthropological value".because it's almost a public funding issue at heart.What are these criteria?That the producers requesting it have their own recognized activity and that the work has sufficient visibility.Anything else?So that the film or series in question does not encourage racial or gender hatred, the use of pornography or other entertainment.But that evaluation, say internally, can only be retrospective, which can cause the funding provided to be revoked if someone lifts a finger and all that.

This is not the case with Fabrizio Corona - I Am News is a documentary that brings together a series of opinions, stories and anecdotes about the activities of the former paparazzi king, either supported or opposed by Corona himself.Zero processing, zero writing.But what’s really disappointing is that ultimately, taxpayer money is going to Netflix through Bloom Media.Without public support, this could have paid for the entire purchase of the documentary.The same goes for Paramount+, which paid for The Life of Charles (Season 4)'s entire budget.There's also Sky Italia, which will pay to buy the third season of "Gomorrah: Origins" or "Call My Agent."This is just a look at some of the other productions that the Ministry of Culture received grants under the same decree on December 23 for the Corona series.It is difficult to explain why this kind of public support is needed and why it would not directly benefit from taxpayers’ money for Italy’s very powerful multinationals such as Netflix, Paramount+ (Skydance Media) and Sky (Comcast).

To understand more, we turned to the Ministry's Directorate General of Cinema and Audiovisual.When they asked us to send an email…