News about audiovisual in Tunisia
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Until the end of September Tunisian director Walid Mattar will be filming his first feature in northern France and Tunisia. “Vent du Nord” follows two characters: a worker in France and an unemployed younger man in Tunisia – linked by a story about factory relocation. Shooting in northern France was completed on August 27th, but …
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The call for films for this section of the Carthage Film Festival (JCC), reserved for film schools, closes on August 1st. Carthage Ciné-Promesse is a new international competitive section integrated into the JCC, showcasing films made as part of a training programme (school, university or workshop). The JCC organizers hope to encourage the talent and …
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Tunisian Zied Ben Taleb and the German Margarete Luetke Twenhoeven have just completed shooting “Kannouta”, a 40-minute drama doc about migrants. The two directors have launched a crowd-funding campaign on the site GoGetFunding to finance post-production. “Kannouta” tries to understand the reasons why young Tunisians risk their lives on makeshift boats to enter Europe illegally. …
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On June 10th the former Tunisian President’s lawyer announced that charges of “violation of honour and identity theft” had been filed on behalf of his client against Attessia TV, a general interest private television channel. Apparently the ousted Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who has been living in exile in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, …
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The Carthage Film Festival (JCC), this year celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, is hosting the 3rd Atelier Takmil (Takmil Workshop) on November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Since 2014 this workshop has allowed African and Arab film-makers to submit their film projects in post-production to the expertise of an international jury. The most promising rough cuts receive …
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The 10th documentary festival Doc in Tunis, organized by an association called Ness El Fen, was held from April 20th to 24th. Traditionally based in Tunis, the festival also organised screenings of selected films in 3 other Tunisian towns from April 22nd to 24th: Bizerte, Kairouan and Sidi Bouzid. The theme of this year’s festival …
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At the end of March, Tunisia’s principle public channel, Al Wataniya 1, and the 24-hour news channel France 24, launched a joint magazine programme, “Paris-Tunis, Tunis-Paris”. Co-produced by the two channels, the programme is recorded alternately between Paris and Tunis, and broadcast on the last Friday of the month, simultaneously on both channels from 7:10 …
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