Mafia protection extends to securing local cooperation for film crews.

Evidence

The types of protection supplied by mafiosi are empirically various. Even film crews, in order to win over the local population, are known to have sought mafia “permission.” According to a film director who worked extensively in Sicily, “If [the boss] comes out to have a coffee with you at the bar, as if by miracle the crowd gets out of the camera’s way and everybody becomes cooperative. Sometimes the Carabinieri themselves point out the ‘right’ man to rum to” (I-23). — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 422