News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Amazon has signed an agreement with Rai Television to include recent films, some film classics and the channel’s own TV series on its Italian video platform. The series concerned will be the most successful ones, such as “Medici: Masters of Florence”. Every new episode of a series being broadcast will be available on Amazon just …
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The third printemps du film engagé, a festival of politically committed drama and documentary films, will be held in Marseille from April 6th to 14th. Organized by a collective of the same name, this year’s festival focuses on the theme “1968-2018, why I continue the fight”. Primitivi, a Marseille-based street television for alternative news, will …
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Since 1981 the Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale (URTI) has organized an annual competition for auteur documentaries, with a Grand Prix for the winning film. The aim of the competition is four-fold: to encourage the independent documentary format, to promote humanist values of tolerance and respect between peoples, to reject any form of propaganda whatsoever …
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On March 12th and 13th the CMCA held its annual general meeting and board meeting in Marseille. The new board was elected unanimously: Chair: Jérôme Cathala of France Télévisions Vice-chair: Maria Dubesse of RAI and Hakim Amara of EPTV Treasurer: Jacques Hubinet of Films du Soleil General secretary: Wifak Lahlou of 2M
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The TivùSat satellite broadcasting platform (DTH) is adding the Cine Sonny cinema channel to its offering. Cine Sonny is operated by Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPTN), showing mainstream films but also documentaries on the history of cinema. It will be the second SPTN channel on TivùSat. TivùSat transmits more than a hundred channels, 38 in …
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On March 7th Delphine Ernotte, chair of France Télévisions, inaugurated a 16,000 square metre studio complex at Vendargues near Montpellier in southern France. Initially it will be used to shoot a new daily half-hour soap, scheduled to air as from September on France 2. The series’ storyline is a woman coming back to Montpellier after …
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Johann Grech, head of the Malta Film Fund, has announced a 17% increase of the Fund’s budget compared with 2017. It now totals €350,000. The increase will be used to nurture the production of Maltese films and scripts. In addition to feature films, it will also be producing short films, documentaries and television series destined …
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