News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
The Tunisian television channel Attassia, created last spring, has agreed terms with the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) on the broadcasting rights for the 2015-2016 soccer season. These include League 1 and League 2 matches, the Tunisia Cup and friendly matches between different national teams. The announcement was made on the FTF web-site. Sources : ftf.org.tn et …
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Following the dismissal of 12 journalists from the private channel Hannibal TV, the chairman of the journalists’ union, Néji Bghouri, announced at a press conference on September 22nd that “it has been decided to launch protest movements and to bring a lawsuit against Hannibal TV’s management in response to the unfair dismissals.” The union, the …
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This year, Francis Ford Coppola, director of “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now”, will chair the jury of the 15th Marrakesh International Film Festival (MIFF), according to a statement from the Festival Foundation. Isabelle Huppert did the job in 2014 and Martin Scorsese in 2013. Founded in 2001, the festival is dedicated to film and …
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This year the 13th Rencontres Cinématographiques at Bejaïa in Algeria, organized by the Project’heurts association, will take place between September 5th and 11th. For the last eight years the Rencontres have included Côté Courts, a training workshop for short film screen-writing. This workshop is for Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian author-directors, wanting to consolidate their screenplay …
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The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP), created in the US in 2001 by Mark Ruppert, returns for a second year in Tunis from October 2nd to 4th 2015. The aim of this international competition is to make a short film (write, shoot & edit) in 48 hours flat. The main challenge is that a character, …
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On July 15th the Haute Autorité Indépendante pour la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA) started seizing production and broadcasting equipment of media companies broadcasting illegally. On July 6th the HAICA issued a press statement demanding that all radio and television stations transmitting without a license must stop doing so before July 13th in order to respect the …
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On July 2nd the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication Audiovisuelle (CSCA) rejected the request by Abdelilah Benkirane, the head of the Moroccan government. He had asked the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) to take action against those at the public television channel 2M responsible for violating the broadcasting laws by re-transmitting live Jennifer …
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