News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
2M has launched a call for tenders for the production and external co-production of 18 broadcast programmes (drama, documentaries, sitcoms). Of the four lots, two are for documentaries. For useful information and to download the files of the tender go to: http://e-depot.2m.ma/index.php/fr/accueil Bids will be opened on May 14th at 10 am at the headquarters …
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At a press conference on April 18th Moez Ben Gharbia, head of Attassiaa TV, announced the launch of this new private channel which will broadcast on Nilesat. Transmission will begin on May 18th with a game-show, while programmes for Ramadan will begin on June 18th. A generalist channel, 90% of its output will be local …
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Brahim Seddiki, the festival’s commissioner, announced that the 8th Oran Festival of Arab Film will start on June 3rd. The Algerian film-maker Mohammed Lakhdar Hamina will be honorary chairman. The commissioner also announced that “a charter for the Oran Festival of Arab Film is being drawn up. It will establish a set of traditions for …
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The 15th “Cinéma de la Paix” festival, organized by the Fédération Tunisienne des Ciné-clubs and the Tunis Film Club was held in Tunis from March 25th to 29th. For the first time it also relocated to other towns: Kef from March 23rd to 25th and Bizerte from March 28th to 30th. The event, essentially artistic, …
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“Tournez, mesdames!” (Make films, ladies) said Alice Guy-Blaché, the film industry’s first woman director, in 1914. A century later, women directors continue to enrich our way of looking at the world. They fight, invent, shatter stereotypes. And their films, full of humour, fury or impertinence, help us discover other realities, other truths. Women film-makers are …
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Morocco is the base location for Larry Charles’ new film “Army of One” with American actor Nicolas Cage in the lead role. This new comedy is based on the true story of Gary Faulkner, nicknamed “Mountain Rambo”, a former prisoner of Colorado who sets off alone to hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. He …
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Sarim Fassi Fihri, head of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, announced a record investment in film and television productions shot in Morocco in 2014. 38 foreign productions were made there: 27 feature films (Mission Impossible 5, American Sniper, Exodus, Queen of the Desert) and 11 series (Transporter, Odyssey). In all, 1.17 billion dirhams were generated by …
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