News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Since 1981 the Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale (URTI) has organized an annual competition for auteur documentaries, with a Grand Prix for the winning film. The aim of the competition is four-fold: to encourage the independent documentary format, to promote humanist values of tolerance and respect between peoples, to reject any form of propaganda whatsoever …
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On March 12th and 13th the CMCA held its annual general meeting and board meeting in Marseille. The new board was elected unanimously: Chair: Jérôme Cathala of France Télévisions Vice-chair: Maria Dubesse of RAI and Hakim Amara of EPTV Treasurer: Jacques Hubinet of Films du Soleil General secretary: Wifak Lahlou of 2M
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The TivùSat satellite broadcasting platform (DTH) is adding the Cine Sonny cinema channel to its offering. Cine Sonny is operated by Sony Pictures Television Networks (SPTN), showing mainstream films but also documentaries on the history of cinema. It will be the second SPTN channel on TivùSat. TivùSat transmits more than a hundred channels, 38 in …
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On March 7th Delphine Ernotte, chair of France Télévisions, inaugurated a 16,000 square metre studio complex at Vendargues near Montpellier in southern France. Initially it will be used to shoot a new daily half-hour soap, scheduled to air as from September on France 2. The series’ storyline is a woman coming back to Montpellier after …
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Johann Grech, head of the Malta Film Fund, has announced a 17% increase of the Fund’s budget compared with 2017. It now totals €350,000. The increase will be used to nurture the production of Maltese films and scripts. In addition to feature films, it will also be producing short films, documentaries and television series destined …
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The Cariplo foundation, a philanthropic organisation supporting social, cultural and economic development, and the platform Meet the Media Guru, active since 2005, have united to launch MEET, Italy’s first international centre for digital culture, in Milan. The centre will help bridge the digital divide and make Milan a local and international reference for digital culture. …
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At last October’s Balkan Film Market, the Albanian Film Centre emphasised the positive effects of doing co-productions with Italy. They then decided to share their experience with the other Balkan countries. Now Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria have all been integrated into the project. The European film market at this year’s Berlinale was …
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