The Italian Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Italian Ministry of Culture is in charge of public functions and duties related to the Film Industry, its mandate entails the promotion, the development, the production, the protection and the dissemination of Italian Cinema.This mission is deeply connected to the nature of one of the most innovative forms of Italian cultural expression – motion picture – based on the need of consolidating the paramount role of this sector in creating and preserving national and local cultural identity.