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ITALY / Rai Ragazzi launches an initiative for creative young people in animation

Rai Ragazzi, the children’s department of Italy’s national broadcaster, has launched a new initiative for young animation creators, students or recent graduates. The channel has launched a competition “L’ora di tuffarsi” (Time to dive) and the best programmes will be announced on September 3rd. The projects will be reviewed by Rai Ragazzi’s animation and television …

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ITALY / Radio Rai launched two new channels in June

In Rome, Radio Rai announced the launch of two new radio programmes in June: Radio Rai1 Sport and Radio Rai2 Indie. Roberto Sergio, the station’s director, said “With these two new channels our radio offering is increasing, bringing the total number to 12, soon 13 (…) That’s a lot, unthinkable just a few years ago, …

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ITALY / 2018 summer season of “Doc3” starts on Rai3

The Doc3 slot has just unveiled its summer schedule. During the second half of almost every Thursday evening from June 21st to October 4th some fifteen documentaries will be shown, presented by Fabio Mancini. Each film tells a story from around the world, seen through the eyes of the men and women concerned. Here is …

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ITALY / €10 million given to film production in Puglia

The Apulia International Film Fund has doubled its offer, allocating €10 million for film production in the Puglia region between 2018 and 2020. The size of the fund helps support the local film industry and attract national and international productions, says Antonio Parente, director of the Apulia Film Commission. All projects for drama, documentary, short …

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ITALY / Rai Cinema joins the Globalgate consortium

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The Italian distributor Rai Cinema has become the 12th member of Globalgate, a consortium specializing in intellectual property issues and the production of local language films around the world. Globalgate also co-produces and co-finances wide-release local language films. Its funding comes from major distribution companies. Rai Cinema, with 15% of the Italian film market, joins …

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FRANCE ITALY GERMANY / France Télévisions, Rai TV and ZDF create “Alliance”

At the “Series Mania” festival in Lille, France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF announced they are creating a pan-European broadcasting group, Alliance, which will offer viewers high budget drama series. For Delphine Ernotte, chair of France Televisions, Europe must “take advantage of [its] strengths, [its] diversity and [its] incredible cultural wealth” to compete with large groups …

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ITALY / Rai keeps the broadcasting rights for the Coppa Italia

Rai TV, in competition with Mediaset, has managed to keep the broadcasting rights and live broadcast exclusivity for the Coppa Italia, the national football competition, for the period 2018-2021. The Italian public broadcasting group will pay 35.5 million euros a year – a 60% increase over the previous period. Rai Chief Executive Mario Orfeo said …

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