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FRANCE / Meditalents project call for the 3rd LabSud

MEDITALENTS

Meditalents has launched a project call in preparation for its 3rd LabSud. Applications can be sent until July 31st. LabSud is a residency which supports 6 writers from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in France who are working on their first or second feature-length fiction film project. For a week participants are given individual help by …

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BULGARIA / The distributor Alpha Violet buys the rights to “Windless”

Alpha Violet

Shortly before its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28th – July 6th), the rights to Pavel G. Vesnakov’s feature film Windless were bought by French distributor Alpha Violet. The film follows Kaloyan who, after the death of his father, returns to Bulgaria from Spain to sell the family apartment. Seemingly …

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ITALY / The 28th Cartoons on the Bay

Cartoons on the Bay

The 28th Cartoons on the Bay was held from May 29th to June 2nd in Pescara. Cartoons on the Bay is the major Italian showcase for animation and for the children’s entertainment industry. Promoted by RAI and organized by RAI Com, the festival has been bringing Italian and international players together through a vast programme …

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MALTA / The Mediterranean Film Festival returns

Festival du Film Méditerranéen

The Mediterranean Film Festival returns to Malta for its 2nd year from June 22nd to 30th with the theme: Unity through film. Malta’s Film Commissioner, Johann Grech, explains the Festival’s importance: “In a time of unprecedented instability and division in the world, the Mediterranean Film Festival has a very special role to play in promoting, …

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MOROCCO / Jérôme Cohen-Olivar begins filming “Autisto”

Autisto

On June 10th Jérôme Cohen-Olivar’s feature film, Autisto, began six weeks’ filming in Casablanca. Produced by Zhor Fassi-Fihri, the film is about a mother struggling with her teenage son’s severe autism. Refusing to accept his disability, she fights to help him find his place in society. The director explained that the film is inspired by …

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FRANCE – MOROCCO / Signing a film co-production agreement between France and Morocco

Royal Film Commission

On May 18th, during the 77th Cannes Film Festival, a co-production agreement was signed by Rachida DATI, the French Culture Minister and Mohamed Mehdi BENSAID, the Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication. The agreement replaces one signed in 1977 and will offer producers in both countries “a modernized framework, in keeping with contemporary production …

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ARAB WORLD / MAD Solutions launches MAD World

MAD-World

MAD Solutions is expanding. It has announced the creation of a new branch dedicated to international sales of Arab films. This new venture will be launched during the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Based in Dubai, the MAD group’s new company will be led by Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab, with Colin Brown as the third …

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