News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
Planned for the autumn of 2014 and repeatedly postponed, filming for the third season of “Kaboul Kitchen”, one of Canal Plus’ in-house creations, will finally begin this spring. The production team will be in Morocco as from March 21st. The first two seasons were shot in Casablanca and Marrakesh. The new season will follow a …
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On February 27th Ahmed Lahri, presenter of the 7:00pm News on the public Canal Algérie, was officially removed from the channel, a decision confirmed the next day by the Minister of Communication, Hamid Grine. Lahri is accused of having “spoken the name of Abdelaziz Bouteflika [President of the Algerian Republic] without mentioning his title” …
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The Ministry of Culture’s Film Department is taking advantage of the event «Constantine, 2015 capital of Arab culture», to organize a symposium on the conditions and problems facing Algerian film production. In partnership with the Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA) and the Centre Algérien du Développement (CADC), the symposium took place on March 5th …
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Handy with a camera? Short or feature-length film-maker? Mad about French-language films? Register your film for the 26th FIFF of Namur.
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Apart from PriMed, which ended on December 12th in Marseille, several Mediterranean festivals gave their awards over the past few days. Recap from Annaba, Brussels and Marrakesh. On its return after a long break, the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film gave its Golden Annab to a Palestinian black comedy, “Dégradé”, directed by Arab and Tarzan …
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On December 5th the Palace of Culture in Abidjan hosted the 3rd Francophone Film Award ceremony, rewarding the best films from the 80 member countries of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. North African countries took three awards, including Best Drama Film for Abderrahmane Sissako‘s Franco-Mauritanian production “Timbuktu”. Tunisian Kaouther Ben Hania won the Best …
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The private channel Medi 1 TV, which until now has offered generalist programming, will become a news and discussion channel from 2016. In an interview with the Medias24 website its CEO, Abbas Azzouzi, detailed the reasons this reorientation. “Since the Arab Spring, several mainstream news channels have lost their lustre. Moroccan, North African and African …
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