The 41st Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival closed on February 9th with the award-giving ceremony in the town’s Maison de la Culture. For 9 days some 160,000 spectators, including 3,500 professionals, watched short films from around the world in a dozen locations in Clermont-Ferrand. The festival was organized around three competitions: international, national and the …
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FRANCE / Martigues – the new Hollywood. Thanks to Provence Studios
For the past four years, one film has followed one another at Provence Studios. In 2018 this film studio on an industrial estate in Martigues, 40 km from Marseille, hosted 104 films. Almost ten times more than four years ago, when Olivier Marchetti initiated the project in dis-used warehouses on a 22-hectare site. With an …
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FRANCE / 5th Ciné Palestine Festival
The 5th Ciné Palestine festival will be held from March 10th to 19th in Toulouse and 8 other towns in the Occitanie Region. Through a selection of 24 feature films, shorts and documentaries visitors will discover the vitality of Palestinian film-making. The festivities will begin with a concert to celebrate the festival’s five years’ existence. …
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FRANCE / Call for films for the 23rd PriMed
PriMed – the International Awards for Mediterranean Documentaries and Reportages has launched its call for films for the 23rd edition. PriMed is open to all independent film-makers, directors, producers and broadcasters who, through their programmes or films, help to create a better understanding of the countries of the Mediterranean region in its broadest sense, from …
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ITALY / Call for films: the C’è un tempo per…l’integrazione Festival
The 13th C’è tempo per…l’integrazione has launched a call for films. The festival will take place from April 9th to 13th in Bergamo and Sarnico, two towns north-east of Milan in the Lombardy region. It is organized by the Ruah cooperative, active for many years integrating immigrants, in collaboration this year with “Lab 80 film”. …
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SPAIN / Slight drop in cinema audiences in 2018
The Instituto de la Cinematografia y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports has published its data on attendance at cinemas in early January. Audiences fell by 2% in 2018, with 97.7 million people going to the cinema, generating €585.7 million. The top of the box office ratings table …
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ITALY / RAI unveils its business plan for 2019-2021
RAI’s board of directors, chaired by Marcello Foa, met on January 24th together with the group’s CEO, Fabrizio Salini. On the agenda was a review of the business plan for the next three years. Fabrizio Salini presented the outline of his ambitious plan, which he had worked on for six months, and which must be …
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