Category: BALKANS

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

EUROPE / Eurimages supports 17 co-productions

At its 140th meeting, last October in Tbilisi, the Executive Committee of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund voted to support 14 feature film co-production projects, 2 animation films and 1 documentary for a total amount of €5,116,469. Among the supported feature films projects there is “Dita ze fill” (Daybreak) by Albanian director Gentian Koci …

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MENA / Agreement to broadcast Balkan channels

In late October the Emirate satellite broadcasting company YahLive and the Adriatic Tours group, owner of the Alpha One RTV Network based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed a partnership agreement to broadcast channels aimed at Balkan expatriates living in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa ). Thus YahLive bouquet subscribers will soon have …

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GREECE / Private broadcasting : towards more transparency

The bill authorising the auction of ten-year broadcasting licenses for private radio and television stations transmitting from Greece was adopted by the Greek Parliament on the night of Saturday 24th to Sunday October 25th. According to government spokesman Olga Gerovassili, the law will “bring order to the broadcasting landscape (…) and restore transparency in the …

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GREECE / Nova: imminent arrival of Fox Sports

Nova, the Greek pay-TV platform, will enhance its bouquet with the upcoming launch of Fox Sports. Subscribers will be able to follow sporting events such as American football (NFL), baseball (MLB), ice hockey (NHL), and golf (PGA Tour), the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball and American Football championships, to which will be added a variety …

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ROMANIA / 22nd Astra Film Festival

This year the 22nd Astra Film Festival (AFF) will be held from October 5th to 11th in the city of Sibiu, under the patronage of Romania’s President. Its main aim is to promote cultural and intercultural understanding as well as to offer the public an intimate and detailed picture of the human condition. This festival …

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SERBIA / Saturation of TV-reality shows in Serbia

According to the weekly newspaper Courrier International, a group of Serbian citizens has launched a petition against TV-reality programmes and their spread across TV channels. Four such programmes are broadcast every day on Serbian TV (Big Brother, Couples, The Farm and Maldives). The petition, signed by over 100,000 people, criticizes these programmes for “their trivialization …

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GREECE / Drops of Breath: A dance company presents an under-water show

For the first time ever, choreographers Sophie Bulbulyan (Compagnie DK-BEL, France) and Apostolia Papadamaki (Quasi-Stellar Company, Greece), in collaboration with Lia Haraki (Pelma Company, Cyprus), together with a team of ten collaborating countries (Germany, Cyprus, Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden) are presenting an under-water visual-dance performance with some of the audience …

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