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ALGERIA / The government wants to give licenses to 10 private channels

According to Communications Minister Hamid Grine, speaking at a press conference in Boumerdes on May 14th, accreditation will soon be given to 10 national private broadcasters. In the coming weeks the Algerian broadcasting watchdog ARAV (Autorité de Régulation de l’Audiovisuel), will discuss which private channels will benefit from this measure which has been often discussed …

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ALGERIA / Call for film projects for the Béjaïa Film Laboratory 2017

For the third consecutive year Project’Heurts, which organizes the Rencontres Cinématographiques de Béjaïa, is launching a call for film projects as part of the Béjaïa Film Laboratory. The Béjaïa Film Laboratory was created to help young Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian professionals make their film projects. It makes this possible by awarding two bursaries: A writing …

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ALGERIA / Candidate call for the 10th FIOFA

The Festival International d’Oran du Film arabe (FIOFA) has launched a call for entries for its 10th session scheduled from July 25th to 31st 2017. The films submitted must not have been shown elsewhere, they must be “Arab produced or directed” or subtitled or dubbed in Arabic and produced between 2016 and 2017. The deadline …

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ALGERIA / ARAV warns against religious radicalism on television

On November 29th the Autorité de Régulation de l’Audiovisuel (ARAV), the Algerian broadcasting watchdog, published a statement addressed to television stations. In it the Authority gives a warning to public and private television stations which broadcast religious programmes on their channels: broadcasting institutions “are strongly advised…at risk of sanctions, to use extreme vigilance to ban …

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FRANCE ALGERIA / Ulule campaign for a doc about how the Algerian War is remembered

Carole Filiu Mouhali and Ferhat Mouhali have launched a crowd funding campaign to finance the post-production of their new documentary. “Ne nous racontez plus d’histoires!” (Don’t tell us any more lies) is about the way the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) is remembered and taught on either side of the Mediterranean. The film-makers look at …

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ALGERIA / The courts release the 3 people arrested in the KBC affair

On July 18th the court at Sidi M’Hamed passed sentence in the affair which led to two directors of the private channel KBC and a manager in the Ministry of Culture being arrested. Mehdi Benaissa, a director of KBC and manager of the production company Ness Prod, and Riad Hartouf, KBC’s head of production, were …

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ALGERIA / Issad Rebrab purchase of El Khabar cancelled

Having put the transaction on ice in June, an Algerian court decided on July 13th to put a stop on the re-sale of the media group El Khabar. The administrative tribunal in Algiers has thus decided to cancel definitively the purchase of El Khabar by Ness Prod, a subsidiary of the Cevital group owned by …

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