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FRANCE / A new phase for the documentary unit of France Télévisions

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During FIPADOC, the Biarritz International Documentary Film Festival, the directors of France Télévisions announced their intention of developing digital documentaries. Takis Candilis, deputy director general for channels and programmes, spoke about this new direction: “France Télévisions has to change, because ahead of us new uses require significant changes.” By developing digital documentaries the French broadcasting …

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FRANCE / Candidate call: co-production workshop in the Mediterranean

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Meditalents has launched a project call for its first co-production workshop in the Mediterranean. It is open to Mediterranean-based producer-director partnerships which have a first or second feature film project under development. The workshop will be held on April 5th, 6th and 7th in Marseilles. It will offer professionals in the northern and southern Mediterranean …

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FRANCE / Death of the director Rachid Oujdi

Rachid Oujdi

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of director Rachid Oujdi on December 30th. Born in 1967 in Paris, Rachid Oujdi was always passionate about images and cinema. Having worked in tourism both in France and abroad, he became a radio host / commentator, first for Radio-France then for Radio Monte-Carlo, …

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FRANCE / Rendez-vous in Biarritz – for Fipadoc, from January 22nd to 27th

Fipadoc

Fipadoc, the International Documentary Festival in Biarritz, will be held in 6 venues in the city between January 22nd and 27th. It succeeds FIPA, a festival created in 1987 focussing on international audiovisual production. Christine Camdessus is the director of this new event. specialising in documentaries. Among other things, she created the documentary production company …

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FRANCE / Audience for French channels: France Télévisions in front

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On December 31st Médiamétrie published its data on French television’s audience ratings for 2018. The public television group France Televisions is in the overall lead, with 28.4% of audience share. That is slightly ahead of the privately owned TF1 group, which has 27.6% audience share across its various channels. Nevertheless the individual channel most watched …

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FRANCE / The Lumières Award announces its nominated films

24e Lumières de la Presse Internationale

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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SPECIAL REPORT / 22nd PriMed edition

Award ceremony

Read our complete report about the 22nd PriMed edition, which took place in Marseilles, from November 25 to December 1. The winners of the 22nd PriMed Cécile Allegra won the Grand Prix – Mediterranean Issues 3,500 high-school students took part in PriMed Full house for the 22nd PriMed’s Audience Award A second look at the …

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