Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

FRANCE / 13th Rencontres Films Femmes Méditerranée

Rencontres Films Femmes Méditerranée

The film festival dedicated to female Mediterranean film-makers closed on October 21st at La Ciotat, after a huge success in Marseilles earlier in the month. 45 films were shown at this, the 13th Rencontres Films Femmes Méditerranée – dramas and documentaries, short and long – including 3 in pre-release and 10 being shown for the …

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ITALY / A journalist, Marcello Foa, appointed to run RAI

Marcello Foa

On September 26th, Marcello Foa was appointed the new chairman of RAI, the Italian public broadcaster. The decision was made by the parliamentary committee supervising the group after the government intervened. An Italian-Swiss journalist, Foa succeeds Monica Maggioni at the head of Italian public broadcasting. A graduate in political science, Marcello Foa began his career …

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FRANCE / 11th training workshop for making TV news stories from archive material

Formation CMCA-INA

From September 17th to 24th the CMCA and INA Méditerranée ran the 11th training workshop for making TV news reports using archive material. Aimed at television journalists from companies who are members of the CMCA, this year’s session was set up in collaboration with Open Media Hub. Journalists from six countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, …

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ITALY / Three years after Mia Madre, Nanni Moretti returns with a documentary

Nanni Moretti

The audience at the 36th Turin International Film Festival will have the privilege of being the first to view Nanni Moretti’s latest film, Santiago, Italia. It will be released in Italian cinemas a few days later, on December 6th. The Turin Festival is an event Moretti knows well, since he was its director from 2007 …

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FRANCE / 36th Arte Mare – a festival of Mediterranean film in Bastia

Arte mare

Corsica’s oldest film festival took place in Bastia from October 6th to 13th. It highlights Mediterranean talent, while this year focussing particularly on film soundtracks. Spectators were able to meet composers and musicians such as Bruno Coulais, Serge Perathoner and Anne Gravoin. The festivities began with a pre-release screening of Les Invisibles, the second feature …

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SPAIN / Medimed – the Euro-Mediterranean documentary market

Medimed

The 19th Medimed, the Euro-Mediterranean documentary market, was held from October 11th to 14th in Sitges, south of Barcelona. Organized by Apimed, the Association Internationale des Producteurs Indépendants de la Méditerranée, Medimed is aimed at independent producers and directors who have a documentary project they want to develop, with particular emphasis on projects which take …

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FRANCE / CINEMED – 40th Festival of Mediterranean Cinema in Montpellier

Cinemed

Cinemed, the Festival of Mediterranean Film in Montpellier, will celebrate its 40th anniversary from October 19th to 27th, chaired by Marseille director Robert Guédiguian, who will also be the subject of a retrospective. The festival will open with the screening of the first two episodes of the TV series Il Miracolo, as yet unseen in …

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