Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

LEBANON / “Hell’s Gate”, first experimental, apocalyptic Lebanese series

Hell's Gate

“Hell’s Gate” is set in Beirut in the year 2052. The 8-part series takes us into a destroyed world after a succession of conflicts and deadly pandemics. The socio-political system has been replaced by “The State of the Union”, a conglomerate of nefarious private investors and companies. A group of revolutionaries prepares to overthrow it. …

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FRANCE / The Spanish version of France 24 now broadcast non-stop

France 24

The Spanish version of France 24 has been on air continuously since September 24th, with transmission rising from 12 hours a day to 24 – an opportunity for the French international news channel to present “a new morning show and even more news, magazines, reports and debates.” According to a press release the goal is …

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FRANCE / “We are Lady Parts”, a BrutX sitcom overturning stereotypes

We are Lady Parts

Showing on the BrutX streaming platform, a British television comedy series, “We Are Lady Parts”, overturns the stereotypes of Muslim women on the screen. The series follows Amina: by day a shy, somewhat awkward doctoral student of microbiology but by night, secretly, a guitarist with a feminist punk rock group “Lady Parts”. Living with her …

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FRANCE / The results of the 40th URTI International Grand Prix for Author Documentaries

URTI

This year’s URTI jury – made up of public television officials from Belgium, Cameroon, Gabon, Kosovo, Morocco, Portugal and Romania – awarded the 40th URTI International Grand Prix for Author Documentaries to Antonio José Almeida’s Portuguese television series “Mysteries of the Human Brain – Mechanism of the Emotions”. “Exponential growth is not limited to 21st …

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ITALY / The new Pixar “Luca” off the Italian Riviera

Luca

The new animated film from Pixar, “Luca” takes us to the heart of 1950’s Italy, off the Italian Riviera. In the depths of the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean, Luca and Alberto, two young adolescent merpeople, living in the sea, stung by curiosity, venture onto dry land and take human form to discover the world …

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SPAIN / Project call for the 22nd MEDIMED

MEDIMED 2021

MEDIMED, the annual get-together for Euro-Mediterranean documentary co-productions,  will be held in Sitges, a town in the south-west of Barcelona, from October 4th to 8th  2021. Now in its 22nd year, MEDIMED wants to encourage dialogue between television professionals and independent producers while promoting new projects and recent productions. MEDIMED is organized by the Association de producteurs indépendants de la …

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FRANCE / Hervé Michel, former President of CMCA elected president of UniFrance

Hervé Michel et Serge Toubiana

The first Steering Committee of the new UniFrance, an association born from the merger between TV France International (TVFI) and UniFrance, was held this Friday, July 2, 2021 at 10 a.m. and proceeded to the election of the presidency. Serge Toubiana and Hervé Michel, previously presidents of UniFrance and TV France International, were elected, in pairs, at the …

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