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ITALY / Netflix and the Italian Film Commissions in partnership

Netflix and the Italian Film Commissions (IFC) have joined forces to create a fund to support the film and television industry faced with the coronavirus lockdown. In early April, the two entities announced they had created an emergency fund for workers and crews in the Italian audiovisual industry affected by the nationwide shutdown of production. …

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ITALY / Funding for films by IDM

IDM (Innovation, Development and Marketing) is a funding organisation for the development, pre-production and production of cinema and television films. Each year it distributes €5 million to different projects to encourage production in the Italian province of South Tyrol. Several times a year IDM gives financial support to films. Seven projects were selected during the …

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ITALY / A docu-drama about Pompeii

2018/2019 saw the most important excavations in Pompeii for the past 70 years, part of an Italian initiative, Great Pompeii Project. The dig uncovered a street, several houses and about fifteen victims. The information pieced together with DNA analysis of the bodies enabled the archaeologists not only to understand more about the people they had …

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ITALY / Minerva Pictures puts 100 films online

The Italian production and distribution company Minerva Pictures has decided to make some films available free of charge. In the context of the confinement imposed in several European countries, around a hundred feature films of all kinds are now available on the internet. Ginluca Curti, Minerva’s CEO, said, “Primarily as citizens, not just as digital …

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ITALY / 15th Sole Luna Doc Film Festival

From July 6th to 12th this year the fifteenth Sole Luna Doc Film Festival will take place in Palermo, Italy. Created in 2006, the event is to encourage independent films and bring together the people working in them. Behind the festival’s organization is the association Sole Luna – A bridge between cultures whose name testifies …

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FRANCE ITALY GERMANY / The Alliance ’s announcements at the Berlin Film Festival

Representatives of the Alliance, took advantage of being at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival to discuss their projects. In addition to reaffirming their commitment to use their partnership to strengthen European cultural identity by co-producing TV series, they gave details about some of their current projects. For example, series ready for transmission : they …

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ITALY / Documentaries enter into Palomar

Palomar, founded in 1986, is an Italian television and film company, one of the largest in the country thanks to the successful films it has produced (Inspector Montalbano, The Name of the Rose, Leopardi, etc.). Since 2019 it has been a partner of the French group Mediawan. To broaden the company’s base, Mediawan’s founder, Carlo …

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