07-01-2013

Bohrer Continues as EUFCN President

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    Arie Bohrer, Film Commissioner of Location Austria (www.locationaustria.at), has been re-elected President of the European Film Commissions Network (www.eufcn.org), a position he has held since the organization’s first general assembly in 2007.

    Also elected to the board were Peter Busuttil (Malta Film Commission, www.mfc.mt) along with General Secretary Berit Tilly (Swedish Lapland Film Commission), Vice-president Patrick Lamassoure (Film France), Treasurer Truls Kontny (Norwegian Film Commission), Jacques Mer (Algarve Film Commission - Portugal), Andrea Rocco (Genova-Liguria Film Commission - Italy), and Carlos Rosado Cobian (Andalucía Film Commission, Spain Film Commission).

    EUFCN represents 82 film commissions in 26 European countries.

    At the general assembly held in Malaga, the issue of European Commission Cinema Communication project became a prime topic of concern. Speaking for the EUFCN, Bohrer said, "The new rules that the EC suggests regarding territorial spending represent a direct threat to most of the local incentives that many Member states and important regions have patiently and carefully established in the past years, and which support European film and TV production.” He added, “It looks like the EC denies the very core of our fragile ecosystem, where creation and industry are genuinely intertwined."