News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Alessandro Di Rienzo (director of “Ist’imariyah”, prize-winner at the 2006 PriMed) and Luca Manunza (media activist who has worked on environmental issues in Campania, and social movements in Turkey) are wrapped up in a documentary subject set in the luminous, yet darkly threatening south of Italy. The focus is an elderly former mayor, Mario Luise. …
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The Hubert Bals Fund (Rotterdam International Film Festival) has extended its support offering with the creation of a new international co-production fund called HBF + Europe. This new fund will support European producers coming in as minority co-producers on feature films being made by young directors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and …
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The European 24-hour news channel, Euronews, created in 1993 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), should see its capital increase with the arrival of a private shareholder. On February 24th the decision was approved by the Supervisory Board. Exclusive negotiations about an injection of capital from one of Naguib Sawiris’ companies had been entrusted to …
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FC Barcelona, a soccer club, announced on its website it had sold its TV rights to Telefonica on February 18th, thus terminating its contract with Mediapro. “The financial offers of Telefonica and Mediapro were identical. Our decision was strategic: Telefonica is a company that wants to expand globally, taking a bet on innovation” announced vice-chairman …
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The Italian newspaper “Il Tempo” reports Rai News group will stop showing Islamic State videos on its channel (Rai News 24) and on its website (Rainews.it). A decision taken to avoid spreading the terrorist organization’s propaganda. Monica Maggioni, the channel director, explains: “We have taken this decision after months of discussion with all of the …
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La Maison Des Scénaristes is launching two calls for entries for the 4th International Screenwriters Pavilion at this year’s Cannes Festival. The first call is for “Feature films”. During the festival the selected authors will be invited to the International Screenwriters Pavilion to present their feature film projects to producers and/or distributors and discuss setting …
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The 37th Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film will take place from October 24th to 31st. It was founded in 1979 by the people behind Montpellier’s Ciné-club Jean-Vigo. First known as Rencontres avec le cinéma méditerranéen, in 1989 the event became the “Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film” and introduced a competitive section. “The Montpellier …
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