News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)
On November 20th Télévision Tunisienne’s new interim managing director, Rached Younes, had talks in Tunis with the Palestinian Minister for the supervision of the media and the press, Riadh Al Hassen. The two sides agreed to sign a framework cooperation agreement focussing on the exchange of news reports between both country’s televisions. The Minister stressed …
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The Qatari beIN Media Group, a subsidiary of Al Jazeera, announced the imminent launch in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) of 24 new HD channels on its pay-TV platform, showing films, entertainment and youth programmes. Four of the channels have been available since November 1st : two beIN Movies channels and two beIN …
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On October 28th the Washington-based NGO, Freedom House, published its annual report on internet freedom in the world. Presented as a map, it gives an overview of the state of internet freedoms in the Mediterranean, assigning scores of 0 (total freedom) to 100 (no freedom) for each State. Syria (87) and Egypt (61) are rated …
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At its 140th meeting, last October in Tbilisi, the Executive Committee of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund voted to support 14 feature film co-production projects, 2 animation films and 1 documentary for a total amount of €5,116,469. Among the supported feature films projects there is “Dita ze fill” (Daybreak) by Albanian director Gentian Koci …
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On Saturday, October 31st the 37th Cinemed ended with an Award ceremony in Montpellier. The Golden Antigone this year went to João Salaviza for “Montanha” a film about a teenager becoming the man of the house while his grandfather is dying. Another Portuguese director, João Pedro Placido, won the Ulysses Award in the documentary section …
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In mid-October, Turkey played host to the crew filming the National Geographic Channel’s new documentary series “The Story of God” “which traces Man’s quest to understand the divine”. Sequences were filmed in the Neolithic town of Çatal Höyük in the province of Konya. American actor Morgan Freeman, who is presenting the series and producing with …
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On Wednesday October 28th, only four days before the Turkish parliamentary elections, violent clashes erupted in and around the premises of two private television channels in Istanbul. In the early morning police raided the headquarters of Kanaltürk, and in the afternoon Bugün TV, taking over the control rooms and stopping transmission. The takeover follows the …
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