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The first Cine Donne Festival (Women’s Film Festival) will take place in Bastia (Corsica) from April 6th to 10th. This new event, initiated by the Communauté d’Agglomération de Bastia and organized by the Arte Mare association, is specifically for the work of international women directors. Like the International Women’s Film Festival in Créteil or Marseille’s …
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International Women’s Rights Day on March 8th was the occasion for Jordan’s Royal Film Commission to open the 10th Women’s Film Week in Amman. The event is organized under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma, Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, and in partnership with UN Women. Since its creation in 2012 the …
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At the end of February Tarak Ben Ammar, the Tunisian head of Eagle Pictures France, bought the Studios de Paris. Ben Ammar got into the film business in the mid-1970’s and has since developed many international projects as a producer. At the end of February 2022 the EuropaCorp group announced in a press release that …
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Provisionally called Bartali’s Bicycle, a film based on the life of Italian cyclist Gino Bartali has started production. Co-produced by Lynx Multimedia Factory and the Toonz Media Group, the film’s national distribution will be handled by RAI, with TVCO responsible for international distribution. The release is scheduled for 2023. This animated family film is set …
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Following a dispute on social networks Disney has decided that it will once again dub its films into Egyptian Arabic. This is in addition to dubbing them in modern, standard Arabic. Disney stopped using Egyptian Arabic, or Masri, in 2012 – although it had been regularly voicing over in that dialect since the 1970’s. Breaking …
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On February 3rd a decree signed by Prime Minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane announced the cancellation of a project to build a Cité du Cinéma in Algiers’ Ben Aknoun Park. The government has not justified their decision, which comes just two weeks after the signature of the decree validating the project. Initially the Cité du Cinéma was …
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The Ateliers Varan are asking for applications for a documentary training session, scheduled from September 19th to November 5th in Ajaccio (Corsica). Jean Rouch and Jacques Arthuys created Ateliers Varan in Paris in 1980 for aspiring directors from different countries. Since then the organisation has offered many documentary training courses in France. The courses are …
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