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The 15th Split Mediterranean Film Festival (FMFS) opened on June 16th and ends on June 25th. The festival is recognized as one of the Adriatic’s most popular cultural events. In 14 years more than 100,000 spectators have attended the screenings, which take place either outdoors at the Bačvice cinema or indoors in a thousand-year-old historic …
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Sicily has announced it is opening a new fund for financing films and television productions. The sum allocated for 2022 and 2023 is €10.8 million, which will be administered by the Sicilian Film Commission. Regional administrators hope this new fund will revitalize the island by stimulating employment, local services and tourism. An article in the …
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Film industry professionals are once again voicing concerns about the abolition* of Algeria’s only state aid for film production, the Fund for Cinematographic Techniques and Industries. On June 4th a new open letter, signed by more than fifty film professionals, was sent to the Ministry of Culture. The letter refers to the importance of cinema …
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Bulgarian producer/director Nikolay Mutafchiev is filming his second feature The Platform. With a budget of 600,000 levove (€306,000), the production is fully subsidized by the Bulgarian National Film Centre. Mutafchiev is also responsible for the script of this drama-comedy: born in a dictatorship, 40-year-old Stan (played by Boyko Krustanov) loses his citizenship because of a …
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The Kosovar Culture Minister Hajrulla Çeku and Dominique Boutonnat, chair of the French CNC (Centre National de Cinéma), signed a co-production agreement on May 21st. The signatories – the CNC, the KCC (Kosovo Cinematography Centre) and both countries’ Culture Ministries – met during the Cannes Film Market. Ahead of the signing, Hajrulla Çeku expressed his …
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The Egyptian distribution company MAD Solutions has joined the board of directors of a New York distributor – D Street Releasing – as an equal partner. On hold for several years, this move was finalised during a meeting between the heads of the two companies at the Red Sea International Film Festival. It means MAD …
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Ahmed Benaïssa, well-known both in theatre and the film world, died during the Cannes Film Festival. He was 78. He had been invited to Cannes for his work in Clément Cogitore’s film Goutte d’Or (Sons of Ramses) in which he played the character of Younes. The film is set in the multicultural district of Paris …
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