Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

MALTA / The European Parliament creates the Caruana Galizia Award

On October 16th the European Parliament organized a live event on its Facebook page with the Parliament’s Vice-President, Heidi Hautala and MEP David Casa. The two politicians were joined by Andrew Caruana Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Maltese investigative journalist who was murdered in 2017. The purpose of the event was to announce …

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FRANCE / Call for the Résidence Frontières 2021

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GREC and the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (National Museum of Immigration History) are launching a candidate call for a residency to make a short film on migration. The call for Residence Frontières is open to anyone making a first or second short film. Candidates who have already made a long film are not …

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FRANCE ALGERIA / The Algerian camps as told by Dorothée Myriam Kellou

Dorothée Myriam Kellou is a journalist and film-director based in Paris. Her work as a journalist has received many awards, including the Trace International Award, the Samir Kassir Award and the Albert Londres Award. Her first feature-length film À Mansourah tu nous as séparés (2019) has been chosen for the 24th PriMed. During the Algerian …

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SPAIN / New cycle of Cinenómada

On October 5th Al Tarab launched a new season of Cinenómada. Created in 2005, the project wants to make African films more accessible to Spanish audiences through screenings organized in several Spanish cities. Al Tarab is also encouraging a wider public to appreciate African cinema by organising the Tarifa-Tangier Festival of African Film (FCAT). This …

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FRANCE / Allindì SVOD platform on Corsica and the Mediterranean

Created on August 1st the Allindì platform streams Corsican and Mediterranean films, allowing the general public to see the many quality films produced on the island. By working with these professional film-makers, the platform is also helping to support the island’s audiovisual sector. Allindì’s catalogue has over a hundred films, with new ones being added …

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ALGERIA FRANCE / Les sandales blanches adapted as a TV film

Published in 2008, Les sandales blanches is the autobiography of a girl from the slums of Nanterre, Malika Bellaribi. When she was 3 years old she had a terrible accident: as she was admiring a new pair of sandals her mother had just bought for her, a truck reversed into her. That was the start …

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FRANCE ITALY / L’Ombra di Caravaggio and L’Agnello, the latest Franco-Italian productions

At the end of September L’Ombra di Caravaggio began shooting in Naples, written, directed and performed by Michele Placido. Once filming is completed in Naples, the crew will move on to Rome, then around Viterbo, Arricia, Frascati and Malta. L’Ombra is about the life of the 16th century Italian painter, Michelangelo Merisi. The cast is …

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