This year’s “New Writing and New Media” training session was organised by the CMCA between March 16th to 20th. There were eight trainees, from Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, with, for the first time, a majority of women. That’s an achievement! 7 women and one man. The workshop is for journalists working in the …
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REMINDER: Call for films for the 19th PriMed
Last call before the deadline Friday 10th April 2015 to register your documentaries, reportages and multimedia works for the 2015 PriMed PriMed – the International Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage Awards is open to all film-makers, directors, producers and broadcasters who, through their programmes or films, contribute to a better knowledge of Mediterranean countries …
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FRANCE / Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Le Challat de Tunis” opens in cinemas
“Le Challat de Tunis”, a first feature by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, opened in cinemas on April 1st. The film-maker based her “documenteur” (a lying documentary – or mockumentary), on a 2003 news item: “A rumour was rampant in Tunis: a man on a motorcycle, armed with a razor, was slashing the buttocks of …
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FRANCE / The George-Pomdidou Centre: Tariq Teguia celebrated
To coincide with the theatrical release of his most recent film “Révolution Zendj”, Algerian film-maker Tariq Teguia was the guest of honour at the Centre Pompidou in Paris during a 10-day tribute to him in March. Two years ago “Révolution Zendj” won the Belfort Festival Grand Prix and the Scribe Award for Cinema. It is …
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FRANCE / Arte co-produces Gianfranco Rosi and Dror Moreh’s new documentaries
Arte has announced that ARTE France Cinéma and ARTE France will be funding two new cinema documentaries: “Beyond Lampedusa” by Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and “The Corridors of Power” by Israeli director Dror Moreh. Both focus on crises in today’s world. Best known for “Below Sea Level” (2008), “El Sicario, Room 164” (2010) and “Sacro …
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FRANCE / France Télévisions: contract signed with Universal
According BFM Business, a framework agreement has been signed between the chairman of France Télévisions, Rémy Pflimlin, and the Hollywood-based production company Universal, a contract previously held by TF1. The agreement allows France’s public TV channels to have first choice of the studio’s new series. Thus series currently in production, such as “Shades of Blue”, …
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FRANCE / NextRadioTV: purchase of the VODEO platform
In a statement on March 5th, the NextRadioTV Group announced it has purchased VODEO from the Figaro Group. Dedicated to documentaries, VODEO is a VOD / SVOD platform (video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand) with a catalogue of nearly 5,000 programmes, cable distribution agreements, ADSL and about 3,000 SVOD subscribers. NextRadioTV’s objective is to become the leader …
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