News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The 12th scriptwriting competition for short films, Med In Scenario, will be held in Corsica from June 17th to 24th as part of the itinerant festival Les Nuits MED. Organized by DIFFUSION KVA, in partnership with France Télévisions, this competition supports and promotes short films across the Mediterranean. Aimed at author-directors with a project for …
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The Malta Film Commission has announced the launch of Creative Malta, a financing programme aimed at local producers. During the first phase €600,000 will be made available for selected projects. There will be a call for projects which, to simplify the application procedure, will require less documentation at the first stage. The Minister of Tourism, …
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The French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, together with the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Region, the City of Marseille and the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis have signed a memorandum of understanding on cinema and the film industry. This agreement is part of Marseille en grand, a three-year plan announced by President Macron in September 2021: “We are going to create …
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The International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), from January 25th to February 5th, is premiering 4 Croatian productions. Two experimental films, Igor Grubić’s Ingresso Animali Vivi and Boris Poljak’s Horror Vacui, are in the Short and Mid-length category. Igor Grubić’s film looks at the towns of northeastern Italy, where animals from Eastern Europe are brought …
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At the end of December the Spanish government presented a bill aimed at consolidating the country’s audiovisual sector. Its key clauses focus on giving priority to independent productions when allocating subsidies. The Ministry of Culture’s press release says the government also intends to pay “particular attention to true equality between men and women by using …
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Last December actress/director Sonia Méndez shot As Neves (As Snow), her first feature. The film is set in a remote village in Galicia as a group of teenagers are celebrating carnival. During the party, a pornographic video featuring one of the girls, Paula, is shared. Shattered, Paula runs off and disappears without a trace. While …
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Each year the MedFilm Festival, Rome’s oldest international film festival, invites audiences to discover the Mediterranean’s many cultures in a programme of drama and documentary films. The 28th edition was held from November 3rd to 13th. During the closing ceremony, the different juries rewarded this year’s best films. Among the works in the Official Competition, …
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