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On March 22nd the Italian group Mediaset published its 2015 results, revealing a net profit of €4 million, down 83% compared to 2014 (€23.7 million). Silvio Berlusconi’s company has justified this fall in profits by claiming it had to prepare for “future amendments to income tax”. Excluding these provisions, net profit was €28.9 million. The …
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From April 5th to 10th Florence is hosting the seventh Middle East Now – a festival of film and culture. The programming looks at Middle Eastern culture, with screenings, exhibitions, concerts, food tastings and conferences. 44 films from across the Arab world will be screened, and for the first time a Saudi film-maker will be …
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We learned with great sadness of the death on March 19th of Pier Luigi Malesani, Secretary General of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators). After a career which began in Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the IRI (Instituto per la Riconstruzione Industriale), he joined public service broadcasting …
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Rome: on March 14th director Rolando Ravello began shooting “Immaturi – The Series”, a TV adaptation of Paolo Genovese’s two successful feature films “Immaturi” (2011) and “Immaturi – Il Viaggio” (2012). Shooting will take 6 months, split between the Italian capital and Sicily. The 8-episode series is being produced by Lotus Productions for Mediaset, with …
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COPEAM (Conférence Permanente de l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen) is organizing its 23rd Annual Conference from April 7th to 9th in Ajaccio’s Palais des Congrès, in partnership with the Corsican Regional Authority. The various committees (television, audiovisual heritage, film/festival/culture, radio, education, gender equality, and exchange of TV news/magazines) will meet on April 8th. On April 9th, the programme …
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From August 10th to 13th the cultural association Allelammie in collaboration with Namavista Films, is organizing the 17th Lucania Film Festival in Pisticci and Matera. The event, which has welcomed 12,500 directors since its inception, every year shows a selection of independent films from around the world. Besides its international competition of short and feature …
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Infinity, a video-on-demand platform (VOD) owned by the Italian group Mediaset, has just obtained the broadcasting rights to “Prisoners of War” (Hatufim in Hebrew) from the Israeli production company Keshet International. The series is about two soldiers who have been prisoners for 17 years and the problems they face trying to return to normal life. …
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