Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

SPAIN / 17th Las Palmas International Film Festival

The 17th International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will take place from March 31st to April 9th. The festival director, Luis Miranda, presented the programme at the end of February. This year, a hundred films will be screened throughout the island. The films selected are divided into several categories: an official section, …

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ITALY / The best documentaries in the Nastri d’argento awards 2017

Italy’s national union of film journalists, the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) has just announced the winners of the Nastri d’argento for the best documentaries of 2017. In the non-fiction category, the winner was Carmine Amoroso’s Porno e libertà. It looks back at the Italy of the 1970’s, the beginning of soft porn films …

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GREECE EUROPE / Syllas Tzoumerkas’ new film in pre-production

This summer Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas begins shooting his third feature film, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea. After Homeland and A Blast had been screened at numerous festivals, the film-maker presented his new project at the 2015 Rotterdam-Berlinale Express, the Berlinale’s co-production market – and was awarded a special mention by the Eurimages jury. …

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FRANCE / France Télévisions launches its project for VoD

  On February 23rd the Board of Directors of France Télévisions announced that a subscription-based video-on-demand platform would be launched by the autumn. The platform will be created using a new model in which the partners will be drama and animation producers and distributors who work with the group’s channels. Among them will be Newen, …

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FRANCE / Les Ecrans de Babel in collaboration with the CMCA and PriMed

  Babel Med Music is extending its festival with a selection of films and documentaries about the different types of music in the world. They will be shown at Marseille’s Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar and the Hangar du J1 on March 16th to 18th.   These free screenings will be part of the Écrans de Babel. …

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PORTUGAL / Launch of the TraceToca channel in Portugal

TraceToca is a Portuguese-language music channel specializing in Afro-Portuguese music in Angola and Mozambique. It was launched in Portugal on February 13th, exclusively on MEO (Portugal Telecom). Subscribers to MEObox, ADSL or Fibre, will be able to access TraceToca within Portugal. The channel has been available on SFR numéricable since June 2015 and on Free …

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ITALY / Launch of the 1st Sonic Scene Festival

The T.a.Rock Cultural Association is organizing the Festival Internazionale di Cinema musicale – Music Film Festival, which will be held in Trani, Italy from December 15th to 17th 2017. A festival of international films with a musical theme, its objective is to promote documentaries and fiction films which combine cinema and music in a definite …

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