News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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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The southern French region of Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée, in partnership with the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, is financing various film-making projects, providing grants for feature films, short films, telefilms (series and one-offs) and documentaries Production grants for a feature-length drama or an animation can be up to €210,000, with up to …
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PrimMed’s partner and friend for many years, this festival will be held in Bergamo and Sarnico (Italy) from May 10th to 13th. Its goal is to bring together and promote films about multiculturalism from all over the world. It also gives a special place to young cinematographers, independent film-makers and innovative projects. The festival’s criteria …
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