Category: WESTERN EUROPE

News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)

FRANCE / Appeal to help develop the «1538 Méditerranée» website

In February four journalists created an independent news website: 1538mediterranee.com. Their remit is to look at topical issues around the Mediterranean basin. The site offers a number of folders about current affairs issues, each consisting of investigations, analysis, videos and various types of illustration. For example, up-coming folders will look at drug trafficking, the fight …

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FRANCE / Candidate-calls for the 39th Cinemed

The Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, now in its 39th year, will be held between October 20th and 28th 2017. Screenings of short and feature-length films, documentaries and animation, are on the agenda, as well as special and thematic evenings, previews, well-known guests (actors, producers), events for young people, meetings, exhibitions. The call for …

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FRANCE / Candidate-calls for «Les rencontres du cinéma italien»

Dolce Cinema has announced the launch of the 11th «Rencontres du Cinéma Italien» . It will be held in France – in Grenoble and the department of Isère – from November 18th to 26th. Devoted to Italian cinema, the event helps French audiences discover, or rediscover, the latest Italian films, helping the two cultures to …

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CYPRUS / Support for 23 Cypriot film projects

The Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture has unveiled which film projects will receive funding in 2016-2017. Answerable to the Ministry, the 9-member Cinema Advisory Committee has decided to fund 23 projects: 9 as part of a writing programme for shorts and feature films, 14 in a programme to help short film production. The funding …

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ITALY / A new Higher Council for film

The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has appointed the members of the new Higher Council for Cinema and Broadcasting. It will be chaired by Stefano Rulli, scriptwriter, who previously ran the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome’s principal film school. The Council will be an advisory body reporting to the Ministry. It will be consulted …

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SPAIN / 17th Las Palmas International Film Festival

The 17th International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will take place from March 31st to April 9th. The festival director, Luis Miranda, presented the programme at the end of February. This year, a hundred films will be screened throughout the island. The films selected are divided into several categories: an official section, …

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ITALY / The best documentaries in the Nastri d’argento awards 2017

Italy’s national union of film journalists, the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) has just announced the winners of the Nastri d’argento for the best documentaries of 2017. In the non-fiction category, the winner was Carmine Amoroso’s Porno e libertà. It looks back at the Italy of the 1970’s, the beginning of soft porn films …

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