The Environmental Film Festival Albania (EFFA) has launched a call for entries for its fifth session, scheduled from May 21st to 27th 2017. The films presented focus on environmental awareness. There are three categories: feature films, short films and films from the EFFA lab – a structure giving financial support to films from the Balkans …
Category: BALKANS
News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
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CROATIA / An acting DG appointed at HRT
At the end of November, the Croatian parliament appointed Blago Markota as acting Director General of HRT, the country’s public broadcaster. Blago Markota joined HRT in 1999 as a financial analyst. Since then he has held various positions within the group: Marketing Director, member of Croatian Television’s Board of Directors, and then advisor to the …
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ROMANIA / Changes to the film industry law
In early December the Romanian government approved an amendment to a new law which will change the way the country’s film industry operates. Every section of the law proposed by Corina Suteu, Romania’s Minister of Culture, has been ratified except the one on allocating new resources for the Film Finance Fund. One of the main …
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GREECE / The broadcasting reform not validated by the Council of State
On October 26th the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, delivered its judgement on whether the broadcasting reforms initiated by Alexis Tsipras’ government are constitutional. Referred to the Council as a last resort by private television channels, the judges invalidated by a narrow majority (14 to 11) the reform which allowed the government to …
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GREECE / The courts will pronounce on the broadcasting reforms
The Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court in Greece, will decide in the coming days whether the broadcasting reforms introduced by the government in February 2016 are constitutional or not. The 25 judges who make up the Council approved the appeals filed by six private television stations which were not granted broadcasting licenses on …
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BULGARIA / Registration for the Sofia Festival extended
The registration deadline for the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria’s largest film festival, has been put back. Non-Bulgarian films now have until October 21st, while Bulgarian films have until December 1st. Bulgarian short films have until January 10th to register in their category. As well as the Bulgarian short film competition, there are competitive sections …
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GREECE / The 4 licenses for private channels have been allocated
On September 2nd, after 63 hours of bidding, the Greek government awarded the 4 broadcasting licenses for national television channels it had put up for auction as part of its major broadcasting reform. Beginning on August 30th the auction was held under very strict, closely watched conditions. With the final bids in, three businessmen and …
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