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2016 marks the 11th anniversary of the first Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom in the Lebanon and Middle East. On Monday February 8th Christina Lassen, the European Union’s ambassador to the Lebanon, launched the 2016 edition of the Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom. Created in 2006 by the European Union, this award commemorates …
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The collective Diffusion KVA is organizing the fifth Med In Scenario, a script-writing competition, as part of the festival Les Nuits Med to be held in Corsica and Paris in March 2016. 5 short film scripts will be selected by a jury, developed during a workshop and then, on March 18th, pitched before a group …
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On November 17th in Strasbourg, Zaina Erhaim, a 30-year old Syrian journalist, won the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Award. She was chosen for “her ethics, determination and courage” and for her ability to “emphasize the human dimension behind the scenes of war”. Still based in Aleppo, for the past two years she has trained about …
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In October the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and the Académie France Médias Monde hosted 36 journalists from North Africa for two weeks of training, according to a joint press release. Entitled “Theory and practice in France”, the session was conducted in Arabic and French to technicians and journalists under 40 years old from Morocco, …
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On October 28th the Washington-based NGO, Freedom House, published its annual report on internet freedom in the world. Presented as a map, it gives an overview of the state of internet freedoms in the Mediterranean, assigning scores of 0 (total freedom) to 100 (no freedom) for each State. Syria (87) and Egypt (61) are rated …
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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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Fablabchannel, a production company specialising in on-line work, is calling for contributions to develop a French-language web-based news channel, aimed at 18 to 30 year olds. To do this, Fablabchannel is looking for independent young French-speaking journalist / bloggers to produce short video reports from every country in the world. The channel is called “Les …
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