The French media company Vivendi has announced that by the end of the month it will create a subsidiary in Italy, where for more than a year a legal dispute has pitted it against the Italian group Mediaset. The news was announced by Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Chairman of Vivendi’s Executive Board. The subsidiary, named simply …
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News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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The selection jury for the 21st PriMed meets from June 6th to 9th
A jury of broadcasting professionals will meet from June 6th to 9th in Marseille to choose the films to be presented at the next PriMed, from November 19th to 25th 2017. 385 films from 40 countries have been received by the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), organizer of PriMed (Prix International du Documentaire …
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FRANCE / Œil d’or award at the Cannes Film Festival
The Œil d’or (Golden Eye), is awarded to the best documentary shown in any of the different sections of the Cannes Film Festival. This year it was won by Visages, Villages by Agnès Varda and the artist JR. On May 27th Rosalie Varda, the film’s producer and daughter of Agnès Varda, was present to receive …
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FRANCE GREECE /Signature of a new agreement for Franco-Greek co-productions
At the 70th Cannes Film Festival, the Greek Film Centre (GFC) and the French Centre National du Cinéma (CNC) renewed a three-year agreement to finance Franco-Greek co-productions. A first agreement was signed for the period 2014-2016. This was followed by an agreement for 2017, now this latest contract has extended the duration of the co-production …
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EUROMEDITERRANEAN / Imminent creation of the first Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Centre
During the Cannes Film Festival, an important agreement was signed by the directors of several Mediterranean broadcasting organisations. Its aim is to create a Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Centre. The group of signatories includes Nejib Ayed, director of the Carthage Film Festival; Teresa Azcona of the Spanish Film Commission; Joanna Gallardo, head of the Ile-de-France Film Commission; …
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FRANCE / Call for films for the 11th RISC
The 11th Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinéma (RISC) will take place from November 24th to 29th 2017 in different venues in the centre of Marseille. The festival offers a programme of international short and feature-length films (documentary, drama, experimental, video art, animation), covering various areas of science. The film-makers and researchers are present at …
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FRANCE / 11 projects chosen for FIDLab 2017
11 film projects representing 12 different countries have been chosen to participate in the 2017 FIDLab, the international co-production platform set up as part of FID (Festival international de cinéma de Marseille). More than half the projects selected are from the Mediterranean: “The Portuguese” (Portugal) a drama in development by Rita Azevedo Gomes, produced by …
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