News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Italian director Francesco Mandelli has started shooting his third feature film Appena un minuto (Just a Minute) in Rome. With a 6 week schedule, the film has an enviable cast: Max Giusti, Massimo Wertmuller, Loretta Goggi, Paolo Calabresi, Dino Abbrescia, Herbert Ballerina, Antonello Fassari, Susy Laude, Carolina Signore and Francesco Mura. Max Giusti, who wrote …
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The Seminci festival was held from October 20th to 27th in Valladolid. There was a rich and varied programme, with 70 feature films and 50 short films competing in various categories (official selection, Spanish documentary, climate change, young audience, etc.). The jury of the official selection was chaired by Portuguese film-maker Miguel Gomes, director of …
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The film festival dedicated to female Mediterranean film-makers closed on October 21st at La Ciotat, after a huge success in Marseilles earlier in the month. 45 films were shown at this, the 13th Rencontres Films Femmes Méditerranée – dramas and documentaries, short and long – including 3 in pre-release and 10 being shown for the …
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On September 26th, Marcello Foa was appointed the new chairman of RAI, the Italian public broadcaster. The decision was made by the parliamentary committee supervising the group after the government intervened. An Italian-Swiss journalist, Foa succeeds Monica Maggioni at the head of Italian public broadcasting. A graduate in political science, Marcello Foa began his career …
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From September 17th to 24th the CMCA and INA Méditerranée ran the 11th training workshop for making TV news reports using archive material. Aimed at television journalists from companies who are members of the CMCA, this year’s session was set up in collaboration with Open Media Hub. Journalists from six countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, …
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The audience at the 36th Turin International Film Festival will have the privilege of being the first to view Nanni Moretti’s latest film, Santiago, Italia. It will be released in Italian cinemas a few days later, on December 6th. The Turin Festival is an event Moretti knows well, since he was its director from 2007 …
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Corsica’s oldest film festival took place in Bastia from October 6th to 13th. It highlights Mediterranean talent, while this year focussing particularly on film soundtracks. Spectators were able to meet composers and musicians such as Bruno Coulais, Serge Perathoner and Anne Gravoin. The festivities began with a pre-release screening of Les Invisibles, the second feature …
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