News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
Ali Djerri, director of the private TV station KBC (El Khabar TV) has received a verbal warning from the Algerian broadcasting watchdog, ARAV. At issue: “the repeated infringements by two programmes – “Allô oui” and “Jornan el-gosto” – in which names and symbols of the state and senior officials in different structures and institutions of …
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The Board of Directors of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM), chaired by the Minister of Communications Mustapha El Khalfi, announced the launch of two major projects: the digitization of the national film archives (500 feature films), and the creation of a film lab to save and archive films. A tender was launched for the film …
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Morocco is currently hosting some of the filming Ang Lee’s new film “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” in Ourzazate, with American actor Vin Diesel in the role of the soldier Shroom. The film is an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s book “End of half time for Billy Lynn soldier” about a 19 year old American soldier, …
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Fathi Kharrat was appointed head of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image (CNCI), a Tunisian institution created in July 2012 to manage the cinema sector (production, distribution, film industry, film festivals, training). It is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation which wants to revitalize the film and broadcasting sector by …
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In a statement the ministry of communications has warned the heads of some private television channels (Ennahar TV, Echorouk TV, Dzair TV, DjazairiaTV and El Hogar TV) about broadcasting violent programmes and trivializing violence. The Algerian government has asked the heads of these channels, “to immediately take strict measures” to remove from the programme schedules …
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The Tunisian media landscape has just welcomed a new television channel M Tunisia, aimed primarily at women, youth and children. It takes over from Al Moutawassit, bought by Faisal Tebourski and Adel Ben Khalifa and will transmit on Nilesat. The channel’s launch was announced at a press conference on June 8th during which the new …
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The Moroccan private “info-tainment” channel, Medi1 TV, broadcasting in Arabic and French, has just approved an overhaul of its whole production system. The French company Videlio Preview won the contract to oversee this modernization process which will give the channel more modern production methods, and thus higher quality programmes, in line with its ambitions to …
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