The Italian series “Gomorra”, adapted from Roberto Saviano’s novel, has just started filming its second season. However, several districts and suburbs of Naples such as Giuliano, Acerra and Afragola do not welcome the filming of this series about the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra. Thus, as the newspaper Le Monde said: “the mayors and administrators of …
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ITALY / Good audience for “Woman with a Camera”
Karima Zoubir’s documentary “Woman with a Camera”, winner of the Rai 3 Broadcasting Award at PriMed 2014, aired on the Italian channel on August 12th at 11h40pm. It was watched by 411,000 viewers, or 5.57% of the public. The documentary is about Khadija, a young Moroccan woman, illiterate and divorced, who, despite strong resistance from …
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ITALY SPAIN PORTUGAL / Netflix arrives
Italy-Spain-Portugal / Netflix arrives The giant American video-on-demand provider, available since September 2014 in France and in more than 50 countries including 13 in Europe, is expanding its services to three new countries. In Spain Netflix will launch its platform on October 20th, in Portugal on October 21st and in Italy on October 22nd. An …
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ITALY / Project to include television licence fee in each electricity bill
In an interview on “In mezz’ora” on Rai 3, the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced the government has plans to lower the television licence fee, known as the “canone Rai”, commenting on current speculation that the fee would be included in everybody’s electricity bill. The aim is to halt tax evasion, practised by 30% …
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ITALY / The Winners of the 27th URTI International Radio Grand Prix
The 27th URTI International Radio Grand Prix received a large number of entries from 28 countries on the theme “Multiculturalism”. The jury was made up of ten people from broadcasting, chaired by Mihaela Schefer, Head of International Projects at Radio Rai. They met in Turin (Italy) from September 20th to 22nd at the invitation of …
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ITALY / New festival: RomAfrica Film Festival
In early July a brand new cultural event was born in Rome: the RomAfrica Film Festival (RAFF), held at the Casa del Cinema. The event, put on in collaboration with one of the largest African film festivals, the Pan African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), wants to offer “a look at an …
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ITALY / Cinema: a beautiful first 6 months
Cinemas in Italy did really well in the first half 2015. Between January and June, there was a 5% increase in attendance with 51 million admissions against 49 million in the same period in 2014. Income amounted to 330 million euros against 302 million the previous year, an increase of 9.4%. The figures were announced …
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