News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
As part of its new tax incentive programme, the Filmski Centar Srbije (Film Centre Serbia) has launched its first call for applications to international production companies. A budget of €3.2 million has been allocated to the 2016 programme, giving a 20% cash rebate on location costs to foreign producers shooting in Serbia. Costs eligible for …
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TVR, the Romanian public television, announced in a statement that its participation in Eurovision 2016, from May 10th to 14th in Stockholm, may be rejected. It might also be denied the broadcast rights to the contest. TVR owes the European Broadcasting Union, Eurovision’s organizer, €10 million, primarily incurred between 2011 and 2012. If the debt …
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On March 28th Greek and Romanian cinema professionals honoured their colleagues by giving awards respectively to “Wednesday 04:45” and “Aferim!”. In Athens, the Hellenic Film Academy voted overwhelmingly for Alexis Alexiou’s thriller “Wednesday 04:45”. This co-production, made with German and Israeli finance, won no fewer than 9 Iris Awards (13 nominations), including Best Film, Best …
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On March 18th Yves Bigot, head of TV5 Monde , was in Athens to sign a partnership agreement with the Greek public service broadcaster, ERT. Under the agreement, the French-language channel’s signal will now be available on all the Greek DTT networks. In a statement, TV5Monde estimated 4.5 million Greek households will be able to …
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Following Dmitry Eipides’ resignation, which he announced in January, the Thessaloniki Festival’s Board of Directors have appointed Elise Jalladeau to run the event. Madame Jalladeau is French but knows Greece very well, since she was broadcasting attaché to the French Embassy in Athens, organizing a French Film Festival in the Greek capital. From 2011 to …
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To mark the 35th Istanbul Film Festival – the IKSV – which takes place from April 7th to 17th, the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund will inaugurate a new award designed to spotlight Euro-Mediterranean women directors. The Audentia Award will be given to one of the 15 films pre-selected from all categories and all films …
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In early March Ingrid Deltenre, Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), sent a letter to the Romanian Prime Minister, Dacian Cioloş, asking for a “rapid response” from his government to save the country’s public broadcaster, TVR. She highlights the “significant debt” faced by the organisation, which she believes is threatened by “financial collapse”, …
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