Category: WESTERN EUROPE

News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)

FRANCE / An agreement signed between Avitem and the CMCA

On the sidelines of the AGM and the Directors’ meeting, the CMCA signed an agreement with Avitem (Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Towns and Territories) to define ways in which the two organisations can work together. Our collaboration would be for broadcasting cooperation in the short and medium term, joint projects and / or calls for …

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FRANCE / CMCA has a new board of directors

During the recent board meeting, held at Marseille’s Villa Méditerranée on April 28th, a new board of directors was elected with a three-year mandate 2015-2018: Hervé Michel, Head of International Affairs at France Télévisions, was elected chair of the CMCA. Vice-chairs: Ahmed Djabri, Deputy Director of External Relations at EPTV (Algerian television), and Maria Du …

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FRANCE / Looking for funding for Alaa Ashkar’s new documentary “On récolte ce que l’on sème”

The production company Freebird Films, founded by Alaa Ashkar, director of the documentary “Route 60 – a journey beyond borders”, is launching a crowdfunding campaign. Alaa Ashkar is currently working on his new project “On récolte ce que l’on sème” (You reap what you sow). This new feature-length documentary focuses on the issue of memory …

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EUROPE / The JOUSSOUR project produces a series of 12 documentaries

Producing cross-border docu-mags for a sustainable Mediterranean, “JOUSSOUR” is a cross-border project funded by the European Union through the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin programme 2007-2013 with a budget of €497,044. Managed by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Italy), the project is coordinated by COPEAM (the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators) and includes the …

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FRANCE / Panorama of North African and Middle Eastern Cinema

This year the Panorama of North African and Middle Eastern Film will celebrate its tenth birthday. It will take place between March 31st and April 19th just outside Paris in Saint-Denis and Seine-Saint-Denis. Audiences will see the latest films from North Africa and the Middle East through a selection of some fifty films from Morocco, …

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FRANCE / Registration open for Festimaj 2015, the nomadic festival

Every year since 2004, Festimaj, the international festival of student films, the largest cinema in the world, offers a journey across five continents to see films made by and with young people aged between 4 and 30 years old. This year it will be held from May 27th to June 27th. Festimaj was created by …

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UK / Call for films for the BBC Arabic Festival

This festival showcases films and documentaries from the Arab world, made by Arab and non-Arab film-makers, professional or amateur, and will be held at the Radio Theatre in central London this coming autumn. This second year focuses on the political upheavals which continue to transform the Arab world following the Arab Spring. The theme, “Rulers …

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