The vote on the proposed law 44 / XIV, which has caused divisions in cinema and audiovisual, was scheduled for today in that parliamentary committee, but was postponed so that more representatives can be heard.
In today's session of the commission, the deputies also failed a request submitted by the PCP, which asked for a postponement of the vote on the law proposal until after “the process related to the State Budget for 2021”, and approved a request from the PS that proposed a supplementary debate period.
At issue is the transposition of a European directive, of 2018, which aims to regulate, between Member States, the activity of television services and audiovisual services on demand, known as VOD ('video on demand'), as Netflix, HBO and Amazon platforms.
The transposition of that European directive into the Portuguese context implies changes - included in the proposed law 44 / XIV - that will have consequences for the financing of cinema and audiovisual. PS, PSD, PCP, Bloco de Esquerda and CDS-PP presented amendments to the proposed law.
While this process is taking place, last week, the Culture Ministry tried, unsuccessfully, to present a first step in the next strategic plan for cinema and audiovisual, from 2021-2025, whose elaboration was attributed to the British consultant Olsberg SPI.
The cinema and audiovisual sector is divided in relation to this matter, and to the way in which the legislative process took place, and manifested itself publicly over the weekend with open letters and press releases.
One of the open letters, signed by more than 650 people and entitled “Portuguese Government announces the death of Portuguese cinema”, called for “a serious and sufficiently informed assessment to transpose into Portuguese Law a Directive that the vast majority of European countries have not yet legislated ”.
Signatories include Pedro Costa, Bruno de Almeida, Catarina Mourão, Catarina Vasconcelos, Cláudia Varejão, Diogo Varela Silva, João Botelho, João Mário Grilo, João Salaviza, Jorge Silva Melo, José Vieira, Leonor Teles, Manuel Mozos, Margarida Gil, Miguel Gomes, Pedro Pinho, Rodrigo Areias, Salomé Lamas, Tiago Guedes, the actors Adriano Luz, Albano Jerónimo, Beatriz Batarda, Dalila Carmo, Diogo Dória, Isabel Abreu, Luís Miguel Cintra, Maria de Medeiros, Nuno Lopes, Rita Blanco, Sandra Faleiro, Rogério Samora, Victória Guerra, photographer Daniel Blaufuks, director of photography Acácio de Almeida, producers Luís Urbano, Maria João Mayer and Paulo Branco.
In another open letter, more than a hundred other directors, producers and screenwriters and more than twenty film and television producers consider this to be a "historic opportunity for Portuguese cinema and audiovisual to converge with Europe".
“ICA's operating cost will be incorporated into the general state budget; and not least, because it increases the sector's sources of financing ”, reads the document.
This open letter is signed, among others, by the producers Ana Costa, Ana Torres, Pandora da Cunha Telles, by the directors Joaquim Leitão and Sérgio Graciano, by the screenwriters Tiago R. Santos, Nuno Markl and João Tordo, and by the producers SPI, Bro, Until the End of the World and David & Goliath.
The Association of Independent Television Producers (APIT) is in line with this letter and calls for the conclusion of the legislative process, because “it is a real opportunity for the development of the sector”.
The Cinema Platform, which speaks on behalf of more than a dozen associations, festivals and two unions, asked for the resignation of the Secretary of State for Cinema, Audiovisual and Media, Nuno Artur Silva for “delegating the definition of policies to an English private company. for the sector ”and called for a postponement of the vote on the proposed law 44 / XIV.
To the Lusa agency, Secretary of State Nuno Artur Silva said on Sunday that, with the approval of that law proposal, ICA will have greater financing capacity in the sector and clarified that it will be this institute that will make the strategic plan, with the support of a English consultant, “great experience”.
The vote on the proposed law 44 / XIV, which has caused divisions in cinema and audiovisual, was scheduled for today in that parliamentary committee, but was postponed so that more representatives can be heard.
In today's session of the commission, the deputies also failed a request submitted by the PCP, which asked for a postponement of the vote on the law proposal until after “the process related to the State Budget for 2021”, and approved a request from the PS that proposed a supplementary debate period.
At issue is the transposition of a European directive, of 2018, which aims to regulate, between Member States, the activity of television services and audiovisual services on demand, known as VOD ('video on demand'), as Netflix, HBO and Amazon platforms.
The transposition of that European directive into the Portuguese context implies changes - included in the proposed law 44 / XIV - that will have consequences for the financing of cinema and audiovisual. PS, PSD, PCP, Bloco de Esquerda and CDS-PP presented amendments to the proposed law.
While this process is taking place, last week, the Culture Ministry tried, unsuccessfully, to present a first step in the next strategic plan for cinema and audiovisual, from 2021-2025, whose elaboration was attributed to the British consultant Olsberg SPI.
The cinema and audiovisual sector is divided in relation to this matter, and to the way in which the legislative process took place, and manifested itself publicly over the weekend with open letters and press releases.
One of the open letters, signed by more than 650 people and entitled “Portuguese Government announces the death of Portuguese cinema”, called for “a serious and sufficiently informed assessment to transpose into Portuguese Law a Directive that the vast majority of European countries have not yet legislated ”.
Signatories include Pedro Costa, Bruno de Almeida, Catarina Mourão, Catarina Vasconcelos, Cláudia Varejão, Diogo Varela Silva, João Botelho, João Mário Grilo, João Salaviza, Jorge Silva Melo, José Vieira, Leonor Teles, Manuel Mozos, Margarida Gil, Miguel Gomes, Pedro Pinho, Rodrigo Areias, Salomé Lamas, Tiago Guedes, the actors Adriano Luz, Albano Jerónimo, Beatriz Batarda, Dalila Carmo, Diogo Dória, Isabel Abreu, Luís Miguel Cintra, Maria de Medeiros, Nuno Lopes, Rita Blanco, Sandra Faleiro, Rogério Samora, Victória Guerra, photographer Daniel Blaufuks, director of photography Acácio de Almeida, producers Luís Urbano, Maria João Mayer and Paulo Branco.
In another open letter, more than a hundred other directors, producers and screenwriters and more than twenty film and television producers consider this to be a "historic opportunity for Portuguese cinema and audiovisual to converge with Europe".
“ICA's operating cost will be incorporated into the general state budget; and not least, because it increases the sector's sources of financing ”, reads the document.
This open letter is signed, among others, by the producers Ana Costa, Ana Torres, Pandora da Cunha Telles, by the directors Joaquim Leitão and Sérgio Graciano, by the screenwriters Tiago R. Santos, Nuno Markl and João Tordo, and by the producers SPI, Bro, Until the End of the World and David & Goliath.
The Association of Independent Television Producers (APIT) is in line with this letter and calls for the conclusion of the legislative process, because “it is a real opportunity for the development of the sector”.
The Cinema Platform, which speaks on behalf of more than a dozen associations, festivals and two unions, asked for the resignation of the Secretary of State for Cinema, Audiovisual and Media, Nuno Artur Silva for “delegating the definition of policies to an English private company. for the sector ”and called for a postponement of the vote on the proposed law 44 / XIV.
To the Lusa agency, Secretary of State Nuno Artur Silva said on Sunday that, with the approval of that law proposal, ICA will have greater financing capacity in the sector and clarified that it will be this institute that will make the strategic plan, with the support of a English consultant, “great experience”.