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MALTA / A budget increase for the “Malta Film Fund”

The Malta Film Commission has announced that for the first time the Malta Film Fund will receive a total budget of €300,000. The Fund awards seven different grants: two for development funding, one for production, two for short films and two for distribution, including registration fees for international festivals. The reason for the budget increase …

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FRANCE / La Fabrique des formats teams up with Gedeon Programmes for a pitching session

The two partners have launched an application call for a pitching session. Registration has been open since April 24th and is for all authors and directors with a documentary project. Indeed, this pitching session encourages documentary projects of all types, with no restrictions on subject-matter, narrative form or media. The aim is to discover new …

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LEBANON / Nadine Labaki’s 3rd feature in post-production

  After Caramel and Maintenant on va où ? the Lebanese film director Nadine Labaki completed shooting her latest feature film in Beirut in March. Carphanaüm, a provisional title, is about children’s rights. Preparation for the film took three years, much of which Labaki spent with abused children. She went to detention centres, juvenile courts, even …

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ALGERIA / Call for film projects for the Béjaïa Film Laboratory 2017

For the third consecutive year Project’Heurts, which organizes the Rencontres Cinématographiques de Béjaïa, is launching a call for film projects as part of the Béjaïa Film Laboratory. The Béjaïa Film Laboratory was created to help young Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian professionals make their film projects. It makes this possible by awarding two bursaries: A writing …

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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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