News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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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Fipadoc, the International Documentary Festival in Biarritz, will be held in 6 venues in the city between January 22nd and 27th. It succeeds FIPA, a festival created in 1987 focussing on international audiovisual production. Christine Camdessus is the director of this new event. specialising in documentaries. Among other things, she created the documentary production company …
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On January 10th the British telecommunications group announced its intention to cut up to 1,200 jobs in its Spanish subsidiary, almost a quarter of the total number of employees (5,014 in March 2018). The UK group has 14.1 million mobile customers in Spain and 3.3 million internet subscribers. To justify this vast lay-off, Vodafone cited …
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