News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
On September 22nd the new head of the Tunisian government, Chahed Youssef, appointed journalist and producer Elyes Gharbi to run the Etablissement de la Télévision Tunisienne (ETT). Two days earlier Tunisia’s broadcasting watch-dog, the Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA), whose consultation is mandatory before the head of public broadcasting can be appointed, …
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Carole Filiu Mouhali and Ferhat Mouhali have launched a crowd funding campaign to finance the post-production of their new documentary. “Ne nous racontez plus d’histoires!” (Don’t tell us any more lies) is about the way the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) is remembered and taught on either side of the Mediterranean. The film-makers look at …
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Until the end of September Tunisian director Walid Mattar will be filming his first feature in northern France and Tunisia. “Vent du Nord” follows two characters: a worker in France and an unemployed younger man in Tunisia – linked by a story about factory relocation. Shooting in northern France was completed on August 27th, but …
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The call for films for this section of the Carthage Film Festival (JCC), reserved for film schools, closes on August 1st. Carthage Ciné-Promesse is a new international competitive section integrated into the JCC, showcasing films made as part of a training programme (school, university or workshop). The JCC organizers hope to encourage the talent and …
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On July 18th the court at Sidi M’Hamed passed sentence in the affair which led to two directors of the private channel KBC and a manager in the Ministry of Culture being arrested. Mehdi Benaissa, a director of KBC and manager of the production company Ness Prod, and Riad Hartouf, KBC’s head of production, were …
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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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