The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation promotes the dissemination of Italian publishing and cinematographic works abroad by providing incentives to translation and dubbing/subtitling initiatives, as a strategic tool for promoting Italian language and culture abroad.
The Foreign Ministry provides two types of financial incentives:
Grants – For the translation of an Italian literary work, which has not yet been published abroad, and for the production, dubbing and subtitling of short/feature-length films and TV series;
Prize – Prize for the translation of Italian works (also in e-book format) – included short films, feature films and television series intended for the mass media – which have been disclosed, translated, produced, dubbed, subtitled on a non-date before January 1, 2024.
Proposals must be presented to the Italian Cultural Institutes and Italian diplomatic and consular representations abroad, according to the Notice regulations. The expiry for submitting a proposal for the 2024 edition is 24 April 2024.
