Analysis: "The losers belong to the film industry"

The money goes to the small and weak. To the individual practitioners who have been without income. For writers and artists through supplementary scholarship funds; to free groups, freelance musicians, small scenes, associations through the Cultural Council. Almost pure relief.

And that was the winners today.

The losers belong to the film industry, which on the production side is completely helpless. An industry where recordings stand still or are pushed to the future, where international cooperation has been made impossible by travel bans and closed communities. An industry of small business owners and razor-sharp global competition, which has already complained about the lack of support at the producer level. Not a dime.

Similarly, regions and municipalities must be counted as losers. It was already known that government institutions could not seek money from half a billion. Today we were told that neither regional nor municipal activities can seek money from the new emergency aid. This applies to the part of cultural life that is part of the cultural collaboration model - co-financing between the state, region, municipality of the basic national network of institutions.

Here you will find all the county and city theaters, the symphony orchestras and the smaller classical ensembles. Here are the county museums, which already half a year ago sounded the alarm that they needed emergency assistance in order not to have to dismiss people in the first half of 2020, and then no one had any idea that there would be a pandemic with a ban on gathering an audience.

If the cultural cooperation model itself can also be noted that it has been chronically underfunded for several years, mainly because the government intervention is lagging behind - the description of reality is agreed by all parties.

But from half a billion, it will not be a crown for regional and municipal cultural activities.

And in response - from the film industry, from regions and municipalities - will of course prompt demand for a new crisis package on their behalf.