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02 May 2020 "Going back to the set is the first thing we want to do. We have to secure the conditions to do it: the organization of our sets is a complex system, but we have the productive and professional skills to adapt, perhaps by changing some practices, "says Francesca Cima. The president of the Producers Anica adds: "Everyone asks for safety, and we in turn - he explains referring to the entire production system of a set that goes from the technicians to the actors - we ask them and we want to offer them to the people who work with us, first of all place from the point of view of health, but immediately after that of being able to work and return to produce and distribute income, making our important contribution to the collective restart of the whole country. We know that uncertainty is a figure of this period, but not we want to stay still. " 

The Lazio Region has announced that from Monday 4 May it will be possible to return to work on the set. It is premature to know who is ready and which productions will be active the day after tomorrow but it is certain that things are moving if nothing else in the preparation. "The recovery - explains Cima - will have to be the result of a collective effort for the good of the whole chain, including the media services, which must feed schedules and catalogs with a new product. In addition to the jobs, this sector produces a lot of content required and of great importance for the well-being of people and, ultimately, also to support the productivity of the country, the ability to generate income and therefore to increase consumption and revenue ". 

The president of Produttori Anica talks about recovery "maybe in June, with the conclusion of the works that were already on the set and that were interrupted during the production phase. In the meantime we worked remotely, in the creative development of the new works, together with the authors "As soon as possible, even before June, the preparation phase could begin, which will allow us to fine-tune the protocols themselves". 

The sanitary protocol for the sets is fundamental to make workers and artists safe, "we are collaborating on this, in agreement between producer associations (Anica, Apa and Ape), with the unions, the representatives of the artists and the actors themselves. Fundamental it will be the financial support necessary to be able to start again, both to cover the higher costs deriving from the same security protocol and from the inevitable lengthening of processing times, and through forms of guarantee that prevent the default of companies in the extreme case in which there are new ones interruptions due to contagion.

Investments in new works must have certainty of support, but on this the ministry, since the beginning of the emergency, has been with us and has guaranteed the introduction of extraordinary resources to give this productive sector - which involves hundreds of thousands of workers currently stationary, (supported, in an emergency, by the social safety nets put into action from the government, to which, however, not everyone has access due to the atypical nature of many positions in our sector), the security to start working again ".

Hollywood worked on guidelines for the recovery: could they also be implemented by the Italian system? "The issues we are addressing all over the world are the health behaviors and safety measures to be adopted, but the solutions will have to adapt to national - and regional where more restrictive - rules given the strong interconnection between the state, public and private media services, distributors. , independent producers, Italy will certainly have in common the best practices (the best) but will decline them on its own specific. We expect a great effort from the public service, with which constant dialogue is open, because it is one of the most powerful engines of the To this end, an extraordinary plan to support the independent audiovisual industry would be the most logical and concrete way to accompany the difficult phase that awaits us ". Have clear indications on the most advanced and certified prevention and protection tools, with simple access to swabs, serological tests for the safety of all and extraordinary financial resources to be allocated to cine-audiovisual production both through funds that can be activated at national level, both through other European instruments: with these two parameters, "production is ready to start again". 

Restarting in Lazio, here are the security measures to be adopted
In Lazio, the cinema sector can also reopen on 4 May. The Region has in fact listed the safety measures to be adopted for restarting the activity: specific staff training (protective devices and hygienic-sanitary rules), production rules, sets, troupe and actors, presence of a competent company doctor, measurement of inlet and outlet temperature, presence of hydroalcoholic solutions for hygiene, tests on the health conditions of the actors before shooting, use of the masks for all operators and for the actors when they are not on stage, safety distances when possible.