News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
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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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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