News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
We learned with great sadness of the death on March 19th of Pier Luigi Malesani, Secretary General of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators). After a career which began in Censis (Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the IRI (Instituto per la Riconstruzione Industriale), he joined public service broadcasting …
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Rome: on March 14th director Rolando Ravello began shooting “Immaturi – The Series”, a TV adaptation of Paolo Genovese’s two successful feature films “Immaturi” (2011) and “Immaturi – Il Viaggio” (2012). Shooting will take 6 months, split between the Italian capital and Sicily. The 8-episode series is being produced by Lotus Productions for Mediaset, with …
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COPEAM (Conférence Permanente de l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen) is organizing its 23rd Annual Conference from April 7th to 9th in Ajaccio’s Palais des Congrès, in partnership with the Corsican Regional Authority. The various committees (television, audiovisual heritage, film/festival/culture, radio, education, gender equality, and exchange of TV news/magazines) will meet on April 8th. On April 9th, the programme …
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Spanish public television has a new director. At a special meeting of TVE’s Board of Directors on March 8th, Eladio Jareño was elected to run the public service broadcaster. Born in Barcelona, Sr. Jareño was previously head of the Catalonia branch of RTVE (the public broadcasting group which includes TVE). He’s been with the company …
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On March 10th France Télévision’s Deputy Director of News, Germain Dagognet, unveiled the launch date of the public broadcaster’s future 24-hour news channel: September 1st 2016 at 6:00pm on the web, and September 1st or 2nd for DTT. Germain Dagognet, who is also in charge of the project, said the news channel will need 160 …
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For the 11th year the association Indigènes Films is renewing its Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (PCMMO) in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. The 2016 selection of 43 films, dramas and documentaries, long or short, will be screened from March 29th to April 17th. In troubled periods like the one we are living though …
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From August 10th to 13th the cultural association Allelammie in collaboration with Namavista Films, is organizing the 17th Lucania Film Festival in Pisticci and Matera. The event, which has welcomed 12,500 directors since its inception, every year shows a selection of independent films from around the world. Besides its international competition of short and feature …
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