Category: BALKANS

News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)

ALBANIA ITALY / “Balkan Days Tirana-Rome” created during the European film market

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At last October’s Balkan Film Market, the Albanian Film Centre emphasised the positive effects of doing co-productions with Italy. They then decided to share their experience with the other Balkan countries. Now Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria have all been integrated into the project. The European film market at this year’s Berlinale was …

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CROATIA / HRT again opens an office in Bosnia-Herzegovina

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On February 9th Croatian Television and Radio (HRT) inaugurated a new office in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina. This is not the first time HRT has set up in Bosnia Herzegovina to broadcast to the Croatian minority in their own language. In 1992 an office was opened in Široki Brijeg, in the west of the country, followed …

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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / Filming starts for a film about the siege of Sarajevo

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“Sympathy for the Devil”, a film produced by Amra Baksic Camo and based on the writings of French journalist Paul Marchand, about both the siege of Sarajevo in 1992/1993 and more broadly the war in Bosnia Herzegovina, will start shooting in February. Film production in the country is problematic since the state provides no financial …

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GREECE / Considerable subsidies for the broadcasting sector

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The Greek government, jointly through the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication (NCAMC) and the Ministry for Digital Policy, has decided to instigate a major reform of the broadcasting sector. Legislative reforms have been adopted to develop the sector, making substantial grants available for Greek production companies or foreign film companies with a branch …

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GREECE SERBIA / Signature of a co-operation agreement for cinema films

During the Sarajevo Film Festival in August, Film Centre Serbia (FCS) and the Greek Film Centre (GFC) signed an agreement to work together and share distribution costs. The two countries’ film centres have agreed to set up the means to help distribute Serbian films in Greece and vice versa. For example, the FCS will cover …

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ALBANIA / Creation of a film market for the Balkans

Created by Albania’s national film centre, QKK, the first Balkan Film Market will take place in Tirana from October 2nd to 7th 2017. The QKK wants to use this film market to build bridges between broadcasters in the Balkans and their colleagues across the rest of Europe. Among the events planned during the Market is …

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GREECE / The TV and Radio Council wants 7 private channels

While there has to be a new auction to allocate licenses to Greek private television channels, the ESR (the National Independent Council for regulating broadcasting) wants to increase the number of channels. After a long meeting on July 6th, the ESR decided to award 7 broadcast licenses for national private channels in the near future. …

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