Olexandr Sych initiates setting up Film and Television Coordination Council
The main strategic task for Ukrainian film industry appears designing of
a development concept for film industry aimed at creating of genuine national
film production. The Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Olexandr Sych announced during a meeting he chaired to consider development
of film industry in Ukraine.
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In the course of the meeting the Culture Minister Yevhen Nishchuk assured the attendees
the Government is ready to provide overall state support to the representatives
of the branch. “The Culture Ministry will initiate changes which are to
assist the national film studios in obtaining an opportunity to direct
funding for their own development, those received from renting of their
property, and exempt the national culture product from VAT taxation,” the top
official explained. Members of the branch stressed the need to launch
independent financing of the area, development of normative basis, upgrade of
the status of national film industry enterprises aimed at attracting independent
financing and ensuring successful competition for the investments with the
private market players and, also, a broader dialog with spectators, response
to their demands and cultural needs. In turn the Vice Prime Minister backed an idea by
the expert community to set up a council to deal with the issues of film
industry development and to unite representatives of both film industry and
television. “I am ready to chair such coordination council in order to ensure
transparent, innovational approaches to solving cadre, financial and
strategic issues of the area. Investing into film industry means powerful
investment into change of public awareness on national values’ grounds,”
Olexandr Sych summed up. |