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FRANCE / New production agreements with France Télévisions

On March 31st France Télévisions signed a series of funding agreements with organizations representing film producers for animation films, documentaries and live entertainment. Each agreement defines the remit of the films in that category, the annual increase of investment, the minimum distribution in each category and other provisions specific to each genre. For example, the …

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PORTUGAL / Easing of taxes for productions in Portugal

A new system of tax relief has come into force in Portugal, intended for film productions with budgets of one million euros or more. Domestic productions, official co-productions and foreign productions (foreign executive productions) can all take advantage of this tax-rebate. Depending on the size of the production, the rebate will be between 20% and …

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FRANCE / Appeal to help develop the «1538 Méditerranée» website

In February four journalists created an independent news website: 1538mediterranee.com. Their remit is to look at topical issues around the Mediterranean basin. The site offers a number of folders about current affairs issues, each consisting of investigations, analysis, videos and various types of illustration. For example, up-coming folders will look at drug trafficking, the fight …

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FRANCE / Candidate-calls for the 39th Cinemed

The Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, now in its 39th year, will be held between October 20th and 28th 2017. Screenings of short and feature-length films, documentaries and animation, are on the agenda, as well as special and thematic evenings, previews, well-known guests (actors, producers), events for young people, meetings, exhibitions. The call for …

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CYPRUS / Support for 23 Cypriot film projects

The Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture has unveiled which film projects will receive funding in 2016-2017. Answerable to the Ministry, the 9-member Cinema Advisory Committee has decided to fund 23 projects: 9 as part of a writing programme for shorts and feature films, 14 in a programme to help short film production. The funding …

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ITALY / Call for projects for the new section of Biennale College in Venice

The Biennale College – Cinema is a laboratory for young film-makers created six years ago by the Biennale di Venezia. Now it has just created a sub-section for young Italian film-makers, with the same aim of helping them work on very low-budgets. The new Italian section (Biennale College – Cinema Italia) is for Italian director-producer …

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FRANCE / The Marseille-based 13 productions wins many awards

The documentary series Nous ouvriers, produced by 13 Productions and broadcast last year on both France 3 and Histoire, has received several awards: The Syndicat Français de Cinéma et de Télévision awarded it the Best French Documentary Award At the Luchon Festival the series received the Audience Award for Best Documentary and the Documentary Jury …

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