News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The 16th DocumentaMadrid is taking place from May 9th to 19th in the Spanish capital. This year the festival dedicated to documentaries takes place in 7 of Madrid’s cultural centres, in addition to its usual venues for screenings. The Cineteca remains the festival’s main venue. With 123 films on the programme, coming from 36 countries, …
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The director, writer and jazz musician Philippe Carrese died on May 5th, at the age of 63. His family coming originally from Naples, Philippe Carrese was born in Marseille in 1956 and grew up in the Panier district. He moved to Paris to study at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques. After graduation, he began …
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With the support of UNESCO and many international broadcasting organizations, URTI is organizing the Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary. In the television world this award has a very high reputation, due to the large number of participants and the quality of the selected programmes. Created in 1981 by Armand Lanoux, a French writer who was …
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In a statement released on April 15th the Italian public television company announced its film offer is being overhauled following the creation of a new channel. This new channel is part of the 2019-2021 Business Plan, validated at the beginning of March, which proposes the company show more films, as part of a wider strategic …
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On April 16th more than 150 professionals gathered at the Palais de la Bourse in Marseille to participate in Production Summit fiction, organized by the internet magazine film français. Four round tables punctuated the day, led by “high-level speakers”, like Sened Dhab, director of digital drama at France Télévisions, and Matthieu Marot, artistic advisor for …
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The 10th Bif&st takes place from April 27th to May 4th in Bari, southern Italy. National and international competitions, parallel sections, master classes and meetings punctuate this major event of Italian cinema which welcomes 75,000 spectators every year. This year the festival celebrates one of the greatest film composers, Ennio Morricone, on his 90th birthday. …
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Audiences at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 14th to 25th, will be able to discover many films from Mediterranean countries within the various sections. Here is an overview of the selected films: In the Un certain regard category, which is for as-yet little-known filmmakers, two Mediterranean films caught the attention …
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