Rome, Little America is now Foundation. It will continue to promote film culture

ThePiccolo America Association, known for running the Troisi Cinema and organizing the summer nights of Il Cinema in Piazza, is now a nonprofit foundation. It will pursue civic, solidarity and socially useful purposes. Among its goals, Piccolo America intends to relate and dialogue with public and private entities, national and international, internal or external to thefilm industry, proposing a new model of cultural institution through a recognizable action and voice.

“Over the years the reality of Piccolo America has grown exponentially, in terms of relationships, number of spaces managed and new jobs,” commented Valerio Carocci, President of the Piccolo America Foundation. "The assembly of members therefore deemed it necessary to adjust the structure of the Association to ensure full alignment with respect to the evolution of its activities. The birth of the Foundation responds to the need to have a more efficient management model, to better implement the organization’s new strategic plan, with a perspective not only local, but also national. With the new statute, the Piccolo America Foundation will continue to pursue non-profit, civic, solidarity and socially useful purposes, as well as to promote the collective enjoyment of film culture."

The history of Piccolo America began in 2011 in Rome with theYouth Assembly at the Center, a collective of girls and boys from schools in the center of the capital, mainly from the suburbs who were looking for a cultural alternative to movida and tourism-related consumption and new models of cultural spaces, permanent or temporary, free and accessible to all. Following the eviction of theformer Cinema America, occupied to block its demolition and conversion into parking lots and apartments, the Piccolo America Association was formed on September 8, 2014, whose honorary members include the late maestro Ettore Scola. In a short time the Association multiplied its areas of operation, starting from Trastevere and reaching elle diverse Roman suburbs with over 100,000 spectators each season. Piccolo America’s biggest milestone came in 2021 with the reopening of Rome’s historic Cinema Troisi, the city’s first cultural space accessible h24, thanks to its study room that recorded 90 thousand admissions, and one year after reopening it won the Golden Ticket of Italian Cinema for having the highest number of spectators in the 2021-2022 film season in the absolute category of single-screen cinemas, with over 60 thousand admissions.

“Among its objectives, the Foundation aims to safeguard and redevelop cultural spaces, enhance the film heritage and carry out socio-cultural interventions on the national territory,” adds Giulia Flor Buraschi, vice president of the Piccolo America Foundation. “If the choice to establish ourselves as an association in 2014 allowed us not only to suffer, but to use the bureaucracy itself to carry out many of the disputes undertaken, the new structure from today will also ensure further credibility towards public and private, national and international institutions.”

“With its activities, the Foundation, being part of the Third Sector Entities, aims to promote sustainable development of the territory through projects aimed at combating economic and social inequalities. Thanks to the legal status of Foundation from now on, it will also be possible to make donations in support of our reality, both by individuals and legal entities, benefiting from tax deductions, as well as continue to allocate the 5x1000,” concluded Federico Croce, newly appointed director general of the Little America Foundation.

Photo by Flavia Rossi.

Rome, Little America is now Foundation. It will continue to promote film culture

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