News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The 9th “La première fois”, a festival for long, medium-length and short films, was held in Aix en Provence and Marseille from February 20th to 24th. All the films were first documentaries. This year’s guest of honour, Jean-Gabriel Périot, gave a masterclass on the first day, which was followed by the official opening. Several Mediterranean …
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The Spanish public radio and television group, RTVE, together with the Huelva town hall and the local press association have signed an agreement to create a communications centre to honour one of the town’s most famous sons, Jesùs Hermida. The journalist, who died in 2015, was well known in Spain as RTVE’s New York correspondent …
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Cinema attracts more and more people in Europe, that at least is the conclusion of the International Union of Cinemas’ annual survey. The provisional update was released on February 14th, a more detailed report on the region will be available in the spring. Some Mediterranean countries show a clear increase in cinema attendance, for example …
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On Thursday February 15th the 68th edition of the famous film festival opened in Berlin. Several Mediterranean films are in the running in the different categories. France, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain and Portugal have the most productions or co-productions made in the region (15 for France, 10 for Italy, 9 for Lebanon and 6 each …
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Italian musician/writer/director Luciano Ligabue continues his tour promoting “Made in Italy”, his latest film released at the end of January. The film’s music track is Ligabue’s new album of the same name – the first time in Italy that a music album has been a central element of a film. Sources: la Repubblica Napoli, Donna …
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The Clermont Ferrand short film festival was held from February 2nd to 10th. It broke attendance records with more than 165,000 spectators. In the national category, the Turkish director Ayce Kartal won the grand jury prize with his animated short “Kötü kiz” (Naughty Girl), a Franco-Turkish co-production. Other Mediterranean co-productions also won awards, for example …
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The PriMed, one of the most important festivals of mediterranean documentary films is open to all directors, producers and distributors who, through their programmes or films, contribute to a better understanding of the countries of the Mediterranean basin in its widest sense, from the Atlantic coasts to the Black Sea.
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