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ITALY / Death of Pier Luigi Malesani, major figure at Rai

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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ITALY / “Immaturi” becomes a TV series for Mediaset

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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FRANCE / COPEAM’s Annual Conference focusses on young people

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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ITALY / Call for films for the 17th Lucania Film Festival

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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ITALY / Mediaset hosts an Israeli series on its VOD platform

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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ITALY / The CMCA partner of the Sarnico Short Film Festival

At the beginning of June the festival of short films “C’è tempo per…..L’integrazione” will celebrate its tenth anniversary with public screenings in Sarnico and Bergamo. All the films chosen deal with aspects of integration, showing individuals, families or whole populations from every culture and nationality. The films will be divided into two categories: one for …

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ITALY / €1.7 million to film in the Emilia-Romagna Region

The Official Bulletin of the Emilia-Romagna Region has confirmed in its February edition the grants available this year for the film and television industry. As the Region announced at the Berlin Festival, €1.2 million will go to national and international productions which are filmed either partly or completely in the region. The deadline for applications …

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