News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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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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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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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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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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’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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This summer Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas begins shooting his third feature film, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea. After Homeland and A Blast had been screened at numerous festivals, the film-maker presented his new project at the 2015 Rotterdam-Berlinale Express, the Berlinale’s co-production market – and was awarded a special mention by the Eurimages jury. …
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