News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
This year’s Festival of African Film will be held in Tarifa from April 28th to May 6th and in Tangier from April 30th to May 5th. This is the second of these cross-border events. It will run simultaneously in Tarifa (Spain) and Tangier (Morocco), two cities separated by 14 kilometres of sea. For Mane Cisneros, …
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The eighth Middle East Now Festival will take place between April 4th and 9th in Florence, Italy. This festival is dedicated to Middle Eastern and North African cinema, art and culture. Middle East Now is the only event in Italy committed to these regions. It hopes to erase common stereotypes by making the Italian public …
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A new agreement was reached between the SECOM group and My-HD, a satellite operator, to broadcast two channels, Melody (classic French songs) and MyZen TV (lifestyle), across the Middle East and Africa (the Mena area). The two companies also agreed to launch Melody d’Afrique, a channel specialising in African song and its artists. Melody …
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France 24 has signed a major new distribution agreement with pan-Arab operator beIn Sport Mena, the second largest Arab-world pay-TV platform. With this agreement the international news channel hopes to strengthen its presence in the Middle East and North Africa and thus gain 890,000 additional households. France 24 is now available on channel 149 in …
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Morocco is now one of the leading film locations in the world, whether for cinema or television, for big budgets or small productions. In April 2015 The Guardian even called Morocco the second best international base for making films. The Centre Cinématographique Marocain announced that in 2016 MAD 280 million (about €26 million) had been …
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At the end of February the Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs appointed Nejib Ayed, a film producer, to run the Carthage Film Days (JCC) this year and next. He succeeds Brahim Letaief, also a producer. Néjib Ayed was born in 1953 in Ksar Hellal. After a Master’s in French, he moved into the film industry …
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Desert Storm, a new feature by Chinese director Dante Lam, is being filmed in several Moroccan towns until the end of May. The inhabitants of Rabat have seen their town centre transformed into scenes of war, with military vehicles and extras dressed in battledress. According to executive producer Zakaria Alaoui, Desert Storm is one …
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