Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

ITALY / Launch of the 1st Sonic Scene Festival

The T.a.Rock Cultural Association is organizing the Festival Internazionale di Cinema musicale – Music Film Festival, which will be held in Trani, Italy from December 15th to 17th 2017. A festival of international films with a musical theme, its objective is to promote documentaries and fiction films which combine cinema and music in a definite …

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THE NETHERLANDS / Focus on the International Film Festival of Rotterdam

The IFFR (International Film Festival of Rotterdam) was held between January 25th and February 5th – this year’s edition being the 46th. The festival shows drama films, creative documentaries and other visual arts. There are also retrospectives, even though the emphasis is on discovering and recognising new talent. The films are in 4 different categories, …

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FRANCE / Call for support for the project “[P]Ose ta bombe”: A documentary series about the place of women in street art

Charlotte Ricco and Elodie Sylvain have created a documentary series about women creating street art and, more broadly, art in public places. The series will be called “[P] Ose ta bombe” – “[Put down], Be bold with your spray-can of paint / bomb”. Everyone agrees that street art has made a niche for itself in …

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ITALY / The CMCA a partner of the Sarnico Short Film Festival

This May the short film festival “C’è un tempo per … l’integrazione” will celebrate its eleventh edition, with films shown in Sarnico and Bergamo. Dedicated to films about integration, taking people, families, populations of all cultures and nationalities as their subject-matter, it will offer public screenings of short films in two categories: one showing regional …

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Submissions are open for PriMed 2017

PriMed

Call for documentary films, reportages and webdoc for the next edition of PriMed, International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage. Deadline March 31th 2017. Registration is free.

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FRANCE / Death of Rémy Pflimlin, former chairman of France Télévisions

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death on Saturday December 3rd, of Rémy Pflimlin, former chairman of France Télévisions. During his various terms of office in the group, he sustained and encouraged the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), both when he was head of France 3 from 1999 and …

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FRANCE / The PACA Region now has 2 new local television channels

On December 1st the French broadcasting watchdog, the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel) gave the go-ahead for the launch of two new television channels on DTT (canal 30) in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. “Provence Azur” will broadcast in the Marseille area, and “Var Azur” in the Toulon-Hyères  area. The CSA’s license for them to transmit …

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