News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
On March 30th Escales Documentaires began a scheme to show award-winning films from their previous festivals. Every week their website gives a link to a different film, accessible free of charge. On the first week they showed the winner of the 2019 Young Peoples’ Award, The Way Back directed by Dimitre Petrovic and Maxime Jennes. …
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Like many countries, Spain is having to live with a period of confinement, which includes closing its cinemas. As a consequence a Spanish distribution and production company, A Contracorriente Films, may be forced to postpone several of its films. To prevent total disruption to its schedules, A Contracorriente Films has decided to preview four of …
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On March 24th the Maltese government announced it was creating specific aid packages for the island’s most affected sectors in order to combat the coronavirus crisis. But it didn’t mention either film or television. The Malta Producers Association reminded the government that film production has stopped world-wide, and Malta is no exception. Since all foreign …
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The deadline for submitting films (documentaries and news reports) to participate in PriMed – the International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary Film and Reportage – which was initially March 31st, has been extended to April 15th. As a reminder, PriMed is open to all writers, directors, producers and broadcasters who, through their programmes or films, help …
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Scheduled from March 30th to April 4th. Music & Cinema, the Aubagne International Film Festival has been cancelled because of the confinement imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. But not wanting to suppress the festival completely, the organizers decided to make it a virtual event. They have created a platform to highlight the creators and their …
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IDM (Innovation, Development and Marketing) is a funding organisation for the development, pre-production and production of cinema and television films. Each year it distributes €5 million to different projects to encourage production in the Italian province of South Tyrol. Several times a year IDM gives financial support to films. Seven projects were selected during the …
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France Télévisions is renewing its competition “À ton court” this year. It’s an opportunity for anyone aged between 16 and 30 to submit a short drama film, an animated film or a documentary of less than 5 minutes. The theme of this year’s competition is Quel monde pour demain? (What world for tomorrow?), particularly for films …
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