Category: WESTERN EUROPE

News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)

SPAIN / Project call for the 22nd MEDIMED

MEDIMED 2021

MEDIMED, the annual get-together for Euro-Mediterranean documentary co-productions,  will be held in Sitges, a town in the south-west of Barcelona, from October 4th to 8th  2021. Now in its 22nd year, MEDIMED wants to encourage dialogue between television professionals and independent producers while promoting new projects and recent productions. MEDIMED is organized by the Association de producteurs indépendants de la …

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FRANCE / Hervé Michel, former President of CMCA elected president of UniFrance

Hervé Michel et Serge Toubiana

The first Steering Committee of the new UniFrance, an association born from the merger between TV France International (TVFI) and UniFrance, was held this Friday, July 2, 2021 at 10 a.m. and proceeded to the election of the presidency. Serge Toubiana and Hervé Michel, previously presidents of UniFrance and TV France International, were elected, in pairs, at the …

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UNITED KINGDOM / SAFAR Film Festival, the only festival solely for Arab cinema, is back after the pandemic

SAFAR

Organized and founded in 2012 by the Arab British Centre, SAFAR Film Festival is the only UK film festival dedicated to the Arab world. This year’s hybrid edition, running from July 11th to 17th, is organized around the theme of “generational encounters in Arab cinema”, through contemporary and classic films about the emerging generation, family disparities …

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FRANCE / The 33rd International URTI Radio Grand Prix launches its call for candidates

URTI Radio Grand Prix

The Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale (URTI) has launched its 33rd annual competition for the International Radio Grand Prix. This year’s theme: “the question of gender in tomorrow’s world”. The application deadline is September 1st 2021. Participation in the URTI Grand Prix is open to all international public and private radio organizations as well as associations and institutions working in …

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SPAIN / CulturaMadrid, a new broadcasting platform

CulturaMadrid

CulturaMadrid is a new Spanish audiovisual content site already offering more than 100 works to viewers who love dance, cinema, music and the fine arts. Created by the capital’s administration, Comunidad de Madrid, the platform offers free and open access to interviews with artists, reports on the city’s theatres and museums while also giving access each …

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ITALY / Candidate call for the Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy

Global Campus of Human Rights

The 16th Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy is scheduled for August 30th to September 8th 2021. The Global Campus for Human Rights launched the programme in 2005; this year’s theme is “delivering social change to children and young people” within the broader framework of Human Rights protection and promotion. The Summer School in Cinema Human Rights …

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ITALY / Candidate call for the Gianandrea Mutti Award for immigrant film-makers or Italian directors born abroad

Premio Mutti

The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant or foreign-born directors, is calling for applications for its 13th edition. Created in 2008, the award was the result of a collaboration between the Associazione Amici di Giana, the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, the Archivio Memorie Migranti (AMM) and the Fondazione Pianoterra Onlus. The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant …

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