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Having joined Telecom Italia in July, Amos Genish was appointed to the company’s general management team in late September. Genish’ career has taken him from the Israeli army, where he served as captain, to the management of Vivo, a Brazilian subsidiary of the Spanish Telefonica group. In January this year he joined the French giant …
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The first full-length feature by Algerian director Sofia Djama, presented in the Orizzonti section at the 74th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th – September 9th), was well received and won three awards. The Orizzonti jury, chaired by Italian director Gianni Amelio, awarded its Best Actress Award to Lyna Khoudri, who features alongside Sami Bouajila …
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On August 21st Mario Martone (“L’amour meurtri”, “Frères d’Italie”) began shooting his seventh full-length feature “Capri – Batterie”. Filming is scheduled to last eight weeks, split between the island of Capri and the Cilento region in Italy, south of Salerno, where in 2010 the Neapolitan director shot “Frères d’Italie”. The screenplay for his new film …
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By leaning on Telecom Italia, of which it owns 23.9 %, Vivendi wants to launch an Italian version of its pay channel Canal Plus. According to Reuters, Vivendi and Telecom Italia will work together to launch a channel run by a “joint venture acquiring broadcasting rights and producing films and series”. Named Canale Plus, it will …
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The 12th Sole Luna Festival, purely for documentaries, came to an end with the awards ceremony on July 9th in Palermo. 23 feature-length documentaries and 8 short ones took part in the festival this year in the 3 official competitions. Among them, Nima Sarvestani’s “Prison sisters” (Sweden / Iran) won over the international jury and …
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On June 21st in Rome, Rai and France Télévisions signed a framework contract to develop co-productions and increase cooperation. This agreement between the Italian and French public broadcasting groups was signed by Monica Maggioni, Chair of Rai, Mario Orfeo, Rai’s Managing Director and Xavier Couture, Deputy Managing Director in charge of Strategy and Programmes at …
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The summer schedule for Rai3’s independent documentaries has been announced. From June 22nd to September 14th a dozen films will be broadcast every Thursday evening in the second part of the evening. The common thread is that they all tell stories from across the world, and each is told by the men and women who …
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