News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
Having put the transaction on ice in June, an Algerian court decided on July 13th to put a stop on the re-sale of the media group El Khabar. The administrative tribunal in Algiers has thus decided to cancel definitively the purchase of El Khabar by Ness Prod, a subsidiary of the Cevital group owned by …
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The association Arts et Metiers is organizing the 9th International Student Film Festival (FIFE) in Casablanca from November 22nd to 25th 2016, in collaboration with the Institut IHB Art Média. A call for entries has been made for this year’s festival, whose theme is “Horizons”. Any student recently graduated or in their final year are …
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According to the Algerian press, the country’s broadcasting watchdog, the Autorité de Régulation de l’Audiovisuel (ARAV) has approved three draft laws written by the government to control broadcasting. The most important and anticipated of them are the specifications for commercial television stations: there are now 89 articles setting out the conditions a private channel has …
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Two managers from the private channel KBC, owned by the El Khabar group, have been in custody since June 24th. Mehdi Benaissa, the channel’s director and manager of Ness Prod, and Riad Hartouf, head of production, were remanded in custody on Sunday June 26th on the orders of the investigating magistrate at the Sidi M’Hamed …
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Tunisian Zied Ben Taleb and the German Margarete Luetke Twenhoeven have just completed shooting “Kannouta”, a 40-minute drama doc about migrants. The two directors have launched a crowd-funding campaign on the site GoGetFunding to finance post-production. “Kannouta” tries to understand the reasons why young Tunisians risk their lives on makeshift boats to enter Europe illegally. …
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Two major productions have been busy on the sound stages at the Ouarzazate studio. From June 13th to 18th the French actor-director Albert Dupontel was there, shooting part of his sixth feature, “Au revoir là-haut”, an adaptation of Pierre Lemaitre’s novel which won the 2013 Prix Goncourt. “Au revoir là-haut” is set at the end …
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The organizers of the Rencontres Cinématographiques at Bejaia are giving a writing grant and a completion grant to North African film-makers and producers as part of the second Bejaia Film Laboratory. The writing grant (Prix des Ateliers Sauvages Hafid Tamzali) is for 200,000 dinars (€1,600 euros), with the winner being given a 4 week writing …
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