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ITALY / Call for documentary projects for the Doc/it Women Award

Doc / it, the association of Italian documentary film-makers, has opened the call for nominations for the Doc / it Award Women, a new award to promote the development of documentaries about gender equality. The organizers hope this award will highlight the work of women documentary film-makers, in line with the Audentia Award for best …

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ITALY / The television licence fee will be incorporated into electricity bills

On April 27th the Italian State Council finally gave the go-ahead to the government decree that the television licence fee (“canone Rai”) be included directly in electricity and gas bills. A few weeks ago, the country’s highest administrative body had reservations about this, in particular asking for a guarantee that only households possessing a television …

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ITALY / The winners of the David di Donatello Awards

On April 18th, in Rome’s Studi de Paolis, the 61st Italian film awards ceremony honoured three films in particular with the much-prized David di Donatello. “Tale of tales” by Matteo Garrone and “Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot” by first-time director Gabriele Mainetti, both won seven awards. The first won the David di Donatello for Best Director …

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ITALY / Claudio Cappon becomes General Secretary of COPEAM

On April 9th the 22nd AGM of the Conférence Permanente de l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen (COPEAM), held in Ajaccio, ratified the renewal of the association’s governing bodies. Talal El Makdessi,  CEO of Télé-Liban, was re-elected for a second term as COPEAM’s chairman. Claudio Cappon, former DG of Rai and vice-chair of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), became …

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ITALY / Vivendi buys Mediaset’s pay-TV platform

On April 8th the Italian group Mediaset announced the sale of its entire pay-TV subsidiary Mediaset Premium, which has two million subscribers. Vivendi’s supervisory board approved the €800 million transaction. 89% of Mediaset Premium’s capital was held by Mediaset, while the remaining 11% belonged to the Spanish group Telefonica. Furthermore, as rumoured recently, Vivendi and …

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ITALY / Rai completely HD by the end of 2016

According the daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, RAI plans to have all 14 of its channels transmitting in HD by the end of the year. Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rai 4 and Rai Sport 1 are already available in HD via Tivùsat, a satellite TV platform. As of May, Rai Movie and …

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ITALY / An agreement Vivendi/Mediaset being negotiated

While at the beginning of the week we learned that the French group Vivendi had approached the Italian Mediaset “for cooperation […] over content”, the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore gave details on March 24th of the progress of negotiations. The newspaper said the Franco-Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar would be responsible for leading discussions …

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