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Marseille’s Cité de la Musique, in collaboration with the CMCA, is organising three documentary screenings from May 9th to the 13th as part of the “Les fils du vent” week. Entry is free within the limit of available places. CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE, LE SALON 4 rue Bernard Du Bois – 13001 Marseille This is …
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On April 27th, after days of rumour, a subsidiary of Patrick Drahi’s Altice group, SFR, and NextRadioTV unveiled a global convergence plan. SFR will buy Altice’s minority stake (49%) in NextRadioTV for an agreed €370 million. The telecommunications group is also negotiating the acquisition of Altice Media Group France, another of Altice’s subsidiaries, which includes …
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Abdelhatif Belhaj and Lolita Bourdet are appealing for crowd-funding to finance the post-production of their documentary “La pêche et l’olive”, filmed in Seine-Saint-Denis and Palestine. The film follows nine teenagers living in a district of Montreuil (a “difficult” suburb of Paris), who go to the village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah in Palestine as part …
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On May 3rd the Marseille-based director Flavie Pinatel completed a week’s shoot for her new documentary, “Les chants d’à côté”. Her subject is the Maladrerie, a district of Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), once almost a slum but redesigned by architect Renée Gailhoustet in 1970-1980 as an urban utopia, attempting to create a different concept of social housing …
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On April 15th the Board of Directors of France Télévisions approved the 2015 accounts, which are balanced – the first time since 2012 the group has not ended the year with a deficit. Although the provisional budget, estimated at the end of 2014, forecast a deficit of €9.8 million, the net result is actually slightly …
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The French distributor Aloest Distribution has launched an appeal on the crowd-funding site Kisskissbankbank to raise finance for the theatrical release of Tamara Erde’s Franco-Israeli documentary This Is My Land, winner of the Mediterranean Issues Grand Prix at the 2014 PriMed. Aloest was turned down by France’s Centre National de Cinéma, with the film scheduled …
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On April 8th the Italian group Mediaset announced the sale of its entire pay-TV subsidiary Mediaset Premium, which has two million subscribers. Vivendi’s supervisory board approved the €800 million transaction. 89% of Mediaset Premium’s capital was held by Mediaset, while the remaining 11% belonged to the Spanish group Telefonica. Furthermore, as rumoured recently, Vivendi and …
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