News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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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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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On January 15th the French media group Mediawan announced it had purchased a majority shareholding in Palomar, an independent Italian production company. Created in late 2015 by Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, Mediawan defines itself as an independent platform for audiovisual content. It already owns several media and production companies, including the AB …
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During FIPADOC, the Biarritz International Documentary Film Festival, the directors of France Télévisions announced their intention of developing digital documentaries. Takis Candilis, deputy director general for channels and programmes, spoke about this new direction: “France Télévisions has to change, because ahead of us new uses require significant changes.” By developing digital documentaries the French broadcasting …
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Meditalents has launched a project call for its first co-production workshop in the Mediterranean. It is open to Mediterranean-based producer-director partnerships which have a first or second feature film project under development. The workshop will be held on April 5th, 6th and 7th in Marseilles. It will offer professionals in the northern and southern Mediterranean …
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For its 39th edition, the International Tourism Fair in Madrid, Fitur, is offering a new section, Fitur Cine / Screen Tourism – a platform for tourism connected to cinema and TV series. The new section is recognition that the places successful films or TV series were shot are attracting a growing number of tourists. An …
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It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of director Rachid Oujdi on December 30th. Born in 1967 in Paris, Rachid Oujdi was always passionate about images and cinema. Having worked in tourism both in France and abroad, he became a radio host / commentator, first for Radio-France then for Radio Monte-Carlo, …
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