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ANDREA IERVOLINO, CEO AND FOUNDER OF IERVOLINO ENTERTAINMENT; DRAGAN NIKOLIĆ, CEO OF IERVOLINO STUDIOS D.O.O.
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SERBIAN FILM INDUSTRY Company Iervolino Entertainment is building a studio in Serbia for the production of short, animated, web and streaming formats, where 580 professionals will be employed. The company is satisfied with its cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Serbia, which has, among other things, enabled it to penetrate new markets
Andrea Iervolino
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hen it comes to the future, Iervolino Studios plans to continue supporting the development of animation and film in Serbia through cooperation with the education sector, support for initiatives and projects in the film industry, as well as CSR activities.
Last year proved to be more than successful for you. You recorded growth despite the pandemic that caused tremendous damage to the entertainment industry as a whole. How?
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Andrea: Iervolino Entertainment ended 2020 with revenues that were as much as 51 per cent higher than in the previous year.
At Iervolino Entertainment they believe that they’ll be able to realise their first live event from somewhere in space by the first half of 2023 We owe this success to the fact that our company is focused, among other things, on creating short animated content that is distributed primarily on large streaming
Dragan Nikolić platforms, such as Netflix and Apple TV. Given that platforms of this type experienced a real boom in the year of global isolation, our content also adapted to trends in the entertainment world. Apart from that, at the peak of the pandemic in Serbia, Iervolino Studios was established for the production of animated content. And there, over the last year, work has been conducted on high quality projects intended for global distribution. You’re planning to invest at least 8.5 million in IES studio in Serbia, while
