TV dramas can tap $19 mil development fund  ROME — Argentina and
Italy have unveiled a co-production fund for TV dramas that
extends the two countries’ existing film production pact.  The
small but significant $19 million development pot for Argentine
skeins with Italo co-producers attached was presented Wednesday
at the Rome Fiction Fest, during a packed confab attended by a
robust delegation of TV producers from Argentina ready to start
talking deals with Italo counterparts.  The fund is financed by
Argentina’s state film entity Incaa, which aims to foster the
emergence of more local indie TV producers and open up the
country’s market where DTT channels are proliferating.  For
Italy the TV pact is a stepping stone to the potentially massive
Spanish-language market, while also allowing producers to tap
into the large portion of Argentina’s TV audience that is of
Italian descent.  To Argentina’s benefit, the TV co-productions
will qualify for European broadcast quotas.  “There is an
important transformation u