Between 2007 and 2011 they paid 250,000 Euro a year on average. Vassiliou’s spokesperson: "We support the go ahead of the projects. To permanently finance the private sector is not our job"
by Renato Giannetti (eunews)
The closure of Europa Film Treasures cost the European Union more than 1 million Euro. That’s how much the financing for the restoration project of old films to create a huge multimedia platform, where they view almost 200 films preserved in 30 archives from all over Europe. The portal, closed for technical and above all financial problems, is likely to be a resounding wasted investment for the EU Commission. Brussels, through the “Media” program, has disbursed money from 2007 to 2011 for a total of 1,239,000 Euro. “Practically we secured ¼ of a million a year,” explains Dennis Abbott, spokesperson for Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Culture to eunews.it.
After allegations from our website, Vassiliou’s staff started to reconstruct the story and piece together what happened. The project Europa Film Treasures dates back to 2007: Lobster Films, a Parisian company, specialized in restoring heritage films in collaboration with some of the most prestigious European film institutes helped in the recovery, restoration, digitization of films produced between 1890 and 1970. Taking a look at records and documents, it emerged that “the European Commission covered 50% of the project’s costs,” Vassiliou’s spokesperson observed. Thus, €276,000 arrived from Brussels in 2007, just as much in 2008, €287,000 Euro in 2009, another €250,000 Euro in 2010 and €150,000 Euro in 2011. Europa Film Treasures could have received financial assistance from the EU again for 2012 and 2013 but “Lobster Film did not make a request,” advises Abbott.
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The closure of Europa Film Treasures cost the European Union more than 1 million Euro. That’s how much the financing for the restoration project of old films to create a huge multimedia platform, where they view almost 200 films preserved in 30 archives from all over Europe. The portal, closed for technical and above all financial problems, is likely to be a resounding wasted investment for the EU Commission. Brussels, through the “Media” program, has disbursed money from 2007 to 2011 for a total of 1,239,000 Euro. “Practically we secured ¼ of a million a year,” explains Dennis Abbott, spokesperson for Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Culture to eunews.it.
After allegations from our website, Vassiliou’s staff started to reconstruct the story and piece together what happened. The project Europa Film Treasures dates back to 2007: Lobster Films, a Parisian company, specialized in restoring heritage films in collaboration with some of the most prestigious European film institutes helped in the recovery, restoration, digitization of films produced between 1890 and 1970. Taking a look at records and documents, it emerged that “the European Commission covered 50% of the project’s costs,” Vassiliou’s spokesperson observed. Thus, €276,000 arrived from Brussels in 2007, just as much in 2008, €287,000 Euro in 2009, another €250,000 Euro in 2010 and €150,000 Euro in 2011. Europa Film Treasures could have received financial assistance from the EU again for 2012 and 2013 but “Lobster Film did not make a request,” advises Abbott.
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