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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FRANCE / A crowd-funding campaign to finance “This Is My Land”
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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ITALY / Vivendi buys Mediaset’s pay-TV platform
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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FRANCE / Ferid Boughedir guest of honour of Cinémas du Sud
From April 27th to 30th, Regard Sud, an association based in Lyon, is organising the 16th Cinémas du Sud festival, focussing on North African and Middle Eastern films. Over 4 days, 9 films from 8 countries of the Arab world will be screened at the Institut Lumière. The Tunisan director Ferid Boughedir, will be this …
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FRANCE / Numéro 23 keeps its broadcasting license
On March 30th the French Conseil d’Etat annulled the decision made by the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA – the French broadcasting watchdog), to revoke the broadcasting license of a channel called Numéro 23. If the CSA’s sanction, published in October 2015, had gone through, this private channel, available on free DTT, would have stopped …
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PriMed 2016: registration deadline extended until April 10th!
The candidate call for the 20th PriMed has been extended! New deadline for registering films: APRIL 10th 2016, final limit! Registering films for PriMed is FREE. Click here to access the registration forms and the rules. The 20th PriMed will be held in Marseille from November 19th to 26th 2016. PriMed – the International Awards …
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ITALY / An agreement Vivendi/Mediaset being negotiated
While at the beginning of the week we learned that the French group Vivendi had approached the Italian Mediaset “for cooperation […] over content”, the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore gave details on March 24th of the progress of negotiations. The newspaper said the Franco-Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar would be responsible for leading discussions …
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