News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Although Italian cinemas should reopen on June 15th, Italian distributors continue to work together to keep their audiences. Their new initiative is called #iorestoinSALA (I’m staying in the cinema). Behind the name are 71 exhibitors from across the country who want to create a new circuit of virtual cinemas to restore the link between the …
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At the end of April, with many countries in full lock-down, the CMCA wanted to (re) discover certain films selected for previous editions of PriMed. They asked directors for permission to put their films online for free. The film-makers agreed, so every day for a month a new documentary was posted on the PriMed Facebook …
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At the beginning of April, the organizers of the Valletta Film Festival announced that this year’s event would be cancelled. Partly because of the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 but also because of insufficient public support. The Film Grain Foundation became the festival’s organizer in 2015. Since then it has attracted around 50,000 spectators and presented …
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The Documentaire Sur Grand Ecran association has set up a support fund for distributors of documentary films. Through this fund the association hopes to prevent any difficulties distributors may experience when cinemas reopen. The association was created in 1991 to promote documentary films and their cinema distribution in France and French-speaking countries. To help the …
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Elena Ferrante’s latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, will be adapted into a television series. Her first saga My Brilliant Friend was broadcast by HBO in co-production with Wildside and Rai. This time Netflix will produce this new series. Set in Naples in the 1990’s, The Lying Life of Adults follows Giovanna’s passage from …
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Spanish director Juan Cavestany used the two months of his confinement to make a film: Madrid, interior. It was shot between March 24th and April 24th using the director’s friends and family, a few well-known people but mostly unknowns. The documentary shows more than a hundred people at home during the lock-down, all filmed by …
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Le DRIVE-IN FESTIVAL was created during the Coronavirus crisis by a group working in the culture sector. They decided to do something about the fact that cinemas remain closed. Combining their resources they created a travelling, socially-aware festival to help cinemas keep in touch with audiences. The key is a drive-in cinema: a giant screen …
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