News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
To compete with video-on-demand platforms, the France Télévisions group is starting to schedule big budget series from the rest of Europe. Arde Madrid is an example of this strategy of broadcasting international co-productions. Winner of the Best European Drama award at last year’s La Fiction TV Festival in La Rochelle, this series takes the viewer …
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Swiss director Julia Bünter has produced her first feature, Fiancées. Her previous credits include Jour J (2014), selected for various festivals (in particular the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival) and À la maison (2015). Filmed in Egypt, Fiancées follows three young women as they head towards marriage. Bünter’s aim was to make a film portrait …
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Every year Series Mania, the international forum for the makers of television series, organizes a call for projects: the CoPro Pitching Sessions, an event for professionals with a series project in development. On February 19th festival director Laurence Herszberg announced the fifteen projects selected for this year’s session. Nine of them are produced, or co-produced, …
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Since mid-February Arte’s new series, Alger Confidential, has been filming in Germany and Morocco, and will continue until April 9th. The director is Frédéric Jardin (Braquo, Engrenages) and the scripts are written by Abdel Raouf Dafri (Un prophète, Mesrine). Alger Confidential, a mini-series of four 45-minute episodes, is adapted from Olivier Bottini’s novel Paix à …
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On February 14th the president of the Spanish Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, Mariano Barroso, and the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis Garcia Montero, formalized a collaboration agreement to promote Spanish films in the Institute’s branches – which are active in 80 cities in 45 different countries. “The two institutions are following the …
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Palomar, founded in 1986, is an Italian television and film company, one of the largest in the country thanks to the successful films it has produced (Inspector Montalbano, The Name of the Rose, Leopardi, etc.). Since 2019 it has been a partner of the French group Mediawan. To broaden the company’s base, Mediawan’s founder, Carlo …
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The journalist Hervé Bourges, former president of Antenne 2 and France 3, creator of the France Télévisions group, former president of the French television watchdog Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel français, died on February 23rd. In addition to his important role in the media, Hervé Bourges was also an active political figure in France. Committed to …
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