News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
COPEAM, the Conférence Permanente pour l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen, is a non-profit organization dedicated to dialogue and cultural cooperation across the Mediterranean region, involving the principal players of the broadcasting industry, including the public radio and television companies from 27 countries in the sector. Every year it organizes a conference which questions the role of the media …
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On January 22nd Serbian director Želimir Žilnik received the CEI award (Central European Initiative) at the Trieste Film Festival, an event dedicated to films from Central and Eastern Europe. This annual award, worth €3,000, is for films which look at our contemporary world and focus on dialogue between cultures. In 2018 the award went to …
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A training programme aimed at women directors in South East Europe, Circle Women Doc Accelerator, has launched a call for candidates. The programme was first tried out in 2017 at Montenegro’s international film festival, the Underhill Fest. Then called RAD, it was an intensive training programme offered by audiovisual professionals and intended for women directors …
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The first original series produced in a Balkan country by the European subsidiary of the American HBO is Croatian. Entitled Uspjeh – Success – it is written by Marjan Alčevski, winner of the “HBO Adria First Draft” competition. This six-part series was shot in Zagreb, and directed by Bosnian film-maker Danis Tanovic. Uspjeh is a …
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This year’s Best European Film Location Award was given to the island of Corfu. The Greek island was chosen through an online vote of Internet users which ended on November 30th. The island was competing against 12 other locations, including the Valle dei Calanchi, near Viterbo, Italy, the setting for Alice Rorhwacher’s Italian Happy as …
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The young director Matej Nahtigal began shooting Corporation in Ljubljana on November 9th. Taking his inspiration from the neo-noir genre and in particular 1970’s thrillers, he has set this detective film in the Slovenian capital. Nahtigal’s second feature is about a solitary police officer, Leon Gall, who decides to investigate, alone, a tie-up between private …
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The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the state-owned Greek radio and television corporation, will help finance 21 new co-productions, both Greek and international. This funding is the first of a series of investments decided by the new board of directors, who replaced the previous board which resigned only a day after the opening of Thessalonika International …
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