Giuli corrects the Sangiuliano commission on cinema

Following the paralysis of the Boccia affair, the Ministry of Culture resumes its work under its new director, Alessandro Giuli, who has closed the chapter on the controversial appointment of the Cinema Commission, the body within the MIC that, with its experts, will evaluate projects and allocate "selective" public funding to films.

An act that the outgoing minister, Gennaro Sangiulian, he had signed a few hours before leaving the ministry and which had provoked the indignation of the opposition in Parliament, so much so that they called the new minister to report to the Chamber immediately after his installation at the Collegio Romano. Tomorrow, however, Giuli is once again called by the Democratic Party to Montecitorio to report on another thorny problem concerning cinema: the decline in production and the choices made by his predecessor, again in terms of tax credit.

Critical issues also emerged during the Venice Film Festival with the public denunciations, among others, of Nanni Moretti and Maura Delpero, director of the film Vermiglio that Italy has designated for the Oscar race. Once the G7 in Naples was over, Giuli has however reworked the composition of the Commission, as announced in Montecitorio. That is, not a real reshuffle of the nominations, but a touch-up in the name of gender rebalancing. Following a couple of resignations that had already arrived in the days of the media storm. Such as that of the journalists Francesco Specchia, correspondent and critic of Libero, and Luigi Mascheroni of Il Giornale. In the new commission many of the experts already identified by Sangiuliano remain but with some additions.

In total, the Commission has 15 members, six of whom are women, less than half. The new list still includes the philosopher Stefano Zecchi. And there are some well-known film critics, such as Valerio Caprara, Paolo Mereghetti and Anselma Dell'Olio, one of the main film experts who contributes to the gender rebalancing desired by the Minister of Culture. The commission also includes Benedetta Cicogna, partner of the historic producer Marina Cicogna, who together with Dell'Olio and Ginella Vocca, president and founder of MedFilm Festival, is among the leading names in gender rebalancing.

The commission also includes legal experts: Tiziana Carpinteri, a lawyer specializing in arts and entertainment law, and her colleague Giacomo Ciammaglichella, also a lawyer specializing in the protection of copyright and industrial law. Among the film technicians, there is Pasqualino Damiani, a contract professor expert in Production and management in the audiovisual industry; there is Massimo Galimberti, an expert in the sector and a member, in the past, of some of the ministry's film commissions. And there are Pier Luigi Manieri, an essayist and expert on film, and Fabio Melelli, a professor and film historian.

Also on the list are Benedetta Fiorini, who in the last legislature was a member of parliament for the League and who deals with institutional relations, and journalists Giorgio Gandola and Mariarosa Cristina Beatrice Mancuso. Also a journalist, like his predecessor, Giuli is preparing to close the matter of his degree. According to what was discovered by Il Foglio, which spoke to his professor Gaetano Lettieri, full professor of History of Christianity and Churches at the Sapienza University of Letters and Philosophy, on Monday the minister will take the last exam of the course in Philosophy, in the theory of theological doctrines. If everything goes as it should, the degree could arrive in January.