The 18th Medimed, the Euro-Mediterranean documentary market, will be held in Sitges, Catalonia from October 12th to 15th. As every year, Medimed’s programming focuses on pitching sessions, in which directors and producers present their documentary film projects to a panel of buyers, broadcasters and distributors. 29 projects from 16 countries in Europe and the southern …
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ITALY / First scenes in the can for Mario Martone’s new film
On August 21st Mario Martone (“L’amour meurtri”, “Frères d’Italie”) began shooting his seventh full-length feature “Capri – Batterie”. Filming is scheduled to last eight weeks, split between the island of Capri and the Cilento region in Italy, south of Salerno, where in 2010 the Neapolitan director shot “Frères d’Italie”. The screenplay for his new film …
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ALBANIA / Creation of a film market for the Balkans
Created by Albania’s national film centre, QKK, the first Balkan Film Market will take place in Tirana from October 2nd to 7th 2017. The QKK wants to use this film market to build bridges between broadcasters in the Balkans and their colleagues across the rest of Europe. Among the events planned during the Market is …
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ALGERIA / A documentary web-series allows young Algerians to have their say
“Wesh derna ? – Maintenant on fait quoi ?” (Now what do we do?), directed by Riadh Touat, tries to reintroduce a bit of optimism into young Algerians’ view of their country. Available on YouTube, this documentary web-series shows us what Algerians aged between 18 and 35 are thinking. Talking directly to Riadh Touat, a 31-year-old chemist …
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ISRAEL / Candidate call for the 2017/18 Greenhouse programme
The Greenhouse Film Centre has opened a candidate-call for the next session of its programme for documentary film-makers from North Africa and the Middle East. Every year a dozen candidates participate in a three-part workshop as part of the Greenhouse programme. They refine their documentary projects and pitch them before a panel of international buyers, …
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FRANCE GREECE /Signature of a new agreement for Franco-Greek co-productions
At the 70th Cannes Film Festival, the Greek Film Centre (GFC) and the French Centre National du Cinéma (CNC) renewed a three-year agreement to finance Franco-Greek co-productions. A first agreement was signed for the period 2014-2016. This was followed by an agreement for 2017, now this latest contract has extended the duration of the co-production …
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FRANCE / Arte broadcasts “Alger, la Mecque des révolutionnaires”
This new documentary about the accumulation of foreign revolutionary movements in Algiers between 1962 and 1974 will be broadcast on May 16th on the Franco-German channel Arte. Directed by Mohamed Ben Slama, “Alger, la Mecque des révolutionnaires” reveals “a defining episode in international history, unknown to the general public”, in the words of the …
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