As part of the week celebrating the French language and its use world-wide (March 18th to 26th), the Aix-Marseille Academy is organizing a programme which involves more than 300 students from the Academy plus 8 similar institutions from Algeria, the Lebanon, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The CMCA and the Villa Méditerranée / Avitem are …
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ITALY / A new Higher Council for film
The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has appointed the members of the new Higher Council for Cinema and Broadcasting. It will be chaired by Stefano Rulli, scriptwriter, who previously ran the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome’s principal film school. The Council will be an advisory body reporting to the Ministry. It will be consulted …
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FRANCE / The Marseille-based 13 productions wins many awards
The documentary series Nous ouvriers, produced by 13 Productions and broadcast last year on both France 3 and Histoire, has received several awards: The Syndicat Français de Cinéma et de Télévision awarded it the Best French Documentary Award At the Luchon Festival the series received the Audience Award for Best Documentary and the Documentary Jury …
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SPAIN / 17th Las Palmas International Film Festival
The 17th International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will take place from March 31st to April 9th. The festival director, Luis Miranda, presented the programme at the end of February. This year, a hundred films will be screened throughout the island. The films selected are divided into several categories: an official section, …
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ITALY / The best documentaries in the Nastri d’argento awards 2017
Italy’s national union of film journalists, the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) has just announced the winners of the Nastri d’argento for the best documentaries of 2017. In the non-fiction category, the winner was Carmine Amoroso’s Porno e libertà. It looks back at the Italy of the 1970’s, the beginning of soft porn films …
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FRANCE / Filming a new episode of the Mary Higgins Clark collection in Marseille
The production company EuropaCorpTV is filming a new episode of the Mary Higgins Clark collection in Marseille for France 3. Adapted from the 2005 novel “No Place like Home”, the French title will be Rien ne vaut la douceur d’un foyer. Directed by Laurent Jaoui with a screenplay by Charlotte Paillieux and Kéthévane Davrichewy, this …
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TUNISIA / A new head for the JCC
At the end of February the Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs appointed Nejib Ayed, a film producer, to run the Carthage Film Days (JCC) this year and next. He succeeds Brahim Letaief, also a producer. Néjib Ayed was born in 1953 in Ksar Hellal. After a Master’s in French, he moved into the film industry …
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