Anica Academy for new professionals in the world of cinema and audiovisual

“It is emerging from many quarters how much there is a need for new professionals, in a world of cinema that is changing at very rapid rates and that challenges and challenges the Italian reality in particular”. This is what Francesco Rutelli, president of ANICA underlines, illustrating the lines and intentions of the new foundation ‘Anica Academy’ which he chairs. “We got to work, already during the lockdown, to prepare the best starting conditions for this Academy”, he reports specifying that “we start with our strength and with those of the five proponents”: Netflix, Rai, Medusa, Vision Distribution and Viacom Cbs. “We were very quick and the institutions helped us to ensure that the legal personality of the foundation, which was born under the legislation on the third sector, was recognized by the prefecture and had all the characteristics of officialdom. At that point – explains Rutelli – we all got to work with an exceptional team game in a highly competitive world, as a sign of seriousness and a desire to work together to make a good contribution to the industry and the creative sectors “. As for the meaning of the operation, “It is a question of creating a new space of opportunities to respond to the demand for increasingly qualified profiles and of creating new professionals that do not exist and that no one trains in Italy today. But we do not intend to compete with those who are already ‘on the track’ with authority. , experience and expertise – the president of Anica is keen to clarify – but we want to move into unexplored lands, greatly enriching the training offer that is needed by the n Our companies, with an industrial and creative vision, innovative and very pragmatic “. The hope of the Anica Academy foundation is that” in the coming months and years to come, dozens of new figures will spring from this work that will allow our cinema and our audiovisual to be stronger, more credible, more able to work in the challenging context in which we find ourselves, not by falling behind but rather by multiplying job opportunities, with a purpose that is also ethical and social “, underlines Rutelli. Mediolago Albani and the director Del Prete, ‘ready to start the first three courses’ For the general secretary of Anica Academy, Francesca Medolago Albani, “our first visible fruit is totally shared, in terms of merit and method. It emerges that some professional profiles are in high demand on today’s market, as evidenced by the focuses and all our internal investigations. These will be only the first steps, which will be followed by others to train all the profiles that the industry needs, working above all on the younger generations “. The director of Anica Academy, Sergio Del Prete, observes that” our work it is about coordination and union of forces, aimed at the sole objective of training professionals and young talents. The courses will give great opportunities and three are already starting: the first training initiatives will involve higher education for young screenwriters under 35 who are already professionals dedicated to writing; an eight-month training course aimed at young graduates aged 18 to 24 to offer a complete overview of the audiovisual process, from development to writing, from production to post-production, from marketing to rights management; a course aimed at young screenwriters dedicated to writing and developing original ideas for cinema “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)