News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
On August 21st Mario Martone (“L’amour meurtri”, “Frères d’Italie”) began shooting his seventh full-length feature “Capri – Batterie”. Filming is scheduled to last eight weeks, split between the island of Capri and the Cilento region in Italy, south of Salerno, where in 2010 the Neapolitan director shot “Frères d’Italie”. The screenplay for his new film …
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By leaning on Telecom Italia, of which it owns 23.9 %, Vivendi wants to launch an Italian version of its pay channel Canal Plus. According to Reuters, Vivendi and Telecom Italia will work together to launch a channel run by a “joint venture acquiring broadcasting rights and producing films and series”. Named Canale Plus, it will …
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The Moroccan director Abdelilah El Jaouhari is currently filming his second full-length feature, “Hala Madrid Visca Barça” in Marrakesh. The film shows how the rivalry between the two Spanish football clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid can unleash passions even in the working class districts of Morocco. Filming started in early July and continued through …
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The 12th Sole Luna Festival, purely for documentaries, came to an end with the awards ceremony on July 9th in Palermo. 23 feature-length documentaries and 8 short ones took part in the festival this year in the 3 official competitions. Among them, Nima Sarvestani’s “Prison sisters” (Sweden / Iran) won over the international jury and …
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A first call for propositions has been launched as part of the SouthMed WiA (Women in Audiovisual) project, financed by the European Union. The aim of this call is to put forward innovative ideas which promote gender equality in the broadcasting sector of seven southern Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. …
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The jury of the International Grand Prix for Creative Documentary, organised by the Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale (URTI), delivered is verdict on July 1st, giving awards to 4 documentaries. The Arman Trophy Grand Prix goes to “The Phone of the Wind: Whispers to Lost Families”, a Japanese film about post-tsunami mourning. “Mada underground”, produced …
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The French private channel Gulli, aimed at youth and family audiences, is now available via satellite in an Arab-language version. Known as Gulli Bil Arabi, this version is broadcast across 18 countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and is included in all the offers of My-HD, a Chinese company based in the United …
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