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FRANCE / Martigues – the new Hollywood. Thanks to Provence Studios

Provence studios

For the past four years, one film has followed one another at Provence Studios. In 2018 this film studio on an industrial estate in Martigues, 40 km from Marseille, hosted 104 films. Almost ten times more than four years ago, when Olivier Marchetti initiated the project in dis-used warehouses on a 22-hectare site. With an …

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MOROCCO / The Tamayouz Foundation created to help young women directors

Fondation Tamayouz

Last December, at the 17th Marrakesh International Film Festival, five women producers and directors launched the Tamayouz Foundation with the aim of helping young Moroccan women build careers in the film and broadcasting professions. Dounia Benjelloun-Mezian, producer and co-founder of the project, said the foundation “wants to offer talented young women the springboard necessary for …

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ITALY / Call for films: the C’è un tempo per…l’integrazione Festival

The 13th C’è tempo per…l’integrazione has launched a call for films. The festival will take place from April 9th to 13th in Bergamo and Sarnico, two towns north-east of Milan in the Lombardy region. It is organized by the Ruah cooperative, active for many years integrating immigrants, in collaboration this year with “Lab 80 film”. …

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ALGERIA / Death of the Algerian producer Youcef Goucem

Youcef Goucem

Youcef Goucem, head of the production company GoFilm, succumbed to his injuries on January 24th at the Douera hospital in the suburbs of Algiers. Two and a half weeks earlier, on January 7th, the Algerian producer set fire to himself in the offices of the private television channel Dzair TV. According to a friend, director …

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FRANCE ITALY / Mediawan buys Palomar

Mediawan

On January 15th the French media group Mediawan announced it had purchased a majority shareholding in Palomar, an independent Italian production company. Created in late 2015 by Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, Mediawan defines itself as an independent platform for audiovisual content. It already owns several media and production companies, including the AB …

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SERBIA MONTENEGRO / Candidate call: Circle Women Doc Accelerator

A training programme aimed at women directors in South East Europe, Circle Women Doc Accelerator, has launched a call for candidates. The programme was first tried out in 2017 at Montenegro’s international film festival, the Underhill Fest. Then called RAD, it was an intensive training programme offered by audiovisual professionals and intended for women directors …

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MONTENEGRO EUROPE / Montenegro joins Eurimages

Eurimages

The 153rd meeting of the Eurimages Steering Committee was held from December 10th to 13th  in Tbilisi, Georgia. Afterwards the Committee announced the accession of a new member: Montenegro. The Balkan country was already part of Creative Europe’s sub-programme MEDIA, the European Audiovisual Observatory and the European Film Promotion. It joins the 38 member countries …

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