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CROATIA ITALY SLOVENIA / RE-ACT welcomes Serbia and launches a candidate call

For the last five years RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Co-Operation and Training) has been connecting broadcasting professionals in Croatia, Slovenia and Friuli Venezia Giulia, a region in northeastern Italy. It has breathed life into many co-productions between these two countries and this region. Now Serbia is also a member, through the Serbian Film Centre. Anyone working …

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ITALY / Shooting the series Romulus has begun

Sky Italia has announced the filming of its new original creation, Romulus, in Rome and the surrounding area. The filming schedule will span 28 weeks. The project has been assigned to the Italian director Matteo Rovere, who is once again looking at the legendary founding of Rome — he directed Il Primo Re, a feature …

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ITALY / Mediaset Italy merges with Mediaset Spain

On June 7th Mediaset Italy, the television group largely owned by the Berlusconi family, announced a merger with its Spanish subsidiary to create a holding company in Amsterdam MFE-MediaForEurope. In a statement, the managing director of Mediaset Pier Silvio Berlusconi said that “MFE-MediaForEurope will be listed on the Italian and Spanish stock exchanges with our …

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ITALY / MIA Market launches a project call for its co-production market

The 5th MIA Market – Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo – will be held in Rome from October 16th to 20th 2019. An annual platform bringing together the broadcasting sector’s main players, MIA Market presents about twenty projects under development in three sections: fiction films, drama series and documentaries. An opportunity for directors and producers of films …

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ITALY / Rai Cinema takes on virtual reality

During the Film Market at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, Rai Cinema unveiled its virtual reality app. RAI’s media company presented its first cross-media project, Happy Birthday, directed by Lorenzo Giovenga and featuring actors Jenny De Nucci and Fortunato Cerlino. Giovenga’s project won the competition launched by Rai Cinema last October, and was produced in …

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ITALY / Rai Movie and Rai Premium merge

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In a statement released on April 15th the Italian public television company announced its film offer is being overhauled following the creation of a new channel. This new channel is part of the 2019-2021 Business Plan, validated at the beginning of March, which proposes the company show more films, as part of a wider strategic …

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ITALY / Bari International Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary!

The 10th Bif&st takes place from April 27th to May 4th in Bari, southern Italy. National and international competitions, parallel sections, master classes and meetings punctuate this major event of Italian cinema which welcomes 75,000 spectators every year. This year the festival celebrates one of the greatest film composers, Ennio Morricone, on his 90th birthday. …

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