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In Morocco, 894 filming authorisations were issued during 2018. This figure was announced in a press release from the Ministry of Culture and Communication on December 31st. The authorisations were for foreign television channels as well as Moroccan and international film productions. Morocco is particularly attractive for any international production which needs desert and urban …
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The Lebanese artist Jocelyne Saab died on January 7th in Paris. She was 70. Born in Beirut in April 1948, she studied economics in Paris. Back in Beirut, her career as a journalist began when she was hired by writer Etel Adnan to work on the newspaper Al Safa. She worked a lot as a …
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This year’s Best European Film Location Award was given to the island of Corfu. The Greek island was chosen through an online vote of Internet users which ended on November 30th. The island was competing against 12 other locations, including the Valle dei Calanchi, near Viterbo, Italy, the setting for Alice Rorhwacher’s Italian Happy as …
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On December 12th Salim Aggar was appointed director of the Algerian cinematheque by the Minister of Culture Azzedine Mihoubi. A journalist, film critic and film director, Aggar takes over from Lyes Semian. The Minister of Culture reminded Algerians of the film library’s central purpose: to develop digital, to train technicians and to organise meetings between …
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On December 17th the Académie des Lumières announced the films in competition for the 24th Lumières de la Presse Internationale. The award was created in 1995 by Daniel Toscan du Plantier and Edward Behr to make the international press more aware of French films. Every year Paris-based foreign journalists give the awards to the best …
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The young director Matej Nahtigal began shooting Corporation in Ljubljana on November 9th. Taking his inspiration from the neo-noir genre and in particular 1970’s thrillers, he has set this detective film in the Slovenian capital. Nahtigal’s second feature is about a solitary police officer, Leon Gall, who decides to investigate, alone, a tie-up between private …
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Matteo Garrone’s new film Pinocchio will begin shooting in the first quarter of 2019. Production of this adaptation was postponed while the Italian director focussed on his latest film, Dogman. This time Garrone, who has twice won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes for his films Gomorra and Reality, is taking his inspiration from Italian …
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