News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The 19th CinemAmbiente Festival will be held in Turin from May 31st to June 5th during the United Nation’s World Environment Day. Films about environmental problems, produced after January 1st 2015, are eligible. The deadline to submit the films is April 10th. The registration procedure can be done directly on-line so as to minimise the …
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The Podemos party has set November 29th 2016 as the date RTVV, the Comunitat Valenciana’s new public broadcaster, will resume transmission. Under an agreement signed in 2015, it is the radical left party’s responsibility to recommission Valencia’s public broadcaster. The date is symbolic: three years ago, on November 20th 2013, after broadcasting for 24 years, …
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The Board of Directors of Rai, meeting on February 18th, agreed the appointment of new Directors to head the group’s various channels. Andrea Fabiano, 39, takes the reins of Rai 1, becoming the main channel’s youngest director. Having been head of marketing for the Rai Group, he became Rai’s Deputy Director on January 1st 2015. …
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France Televisions and the whole team of the Direction of international relations and cooperation are pleased to inform you of the appointement of tis new Head : Jérôme CATHALA, replacing Hervé MICHEL, who has claimed his pension rights.
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Apart from PriMed, which ended on December 12th in Marseille, several Mediterranean festivals gave their awards over the past few days. Recap from Annaba, Brussels and Marrakesh. On its return after a long break, the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film gave its Golden Annab to a Palestinian black comedy, “Dégradé”, directed by Arab and Tarzan …
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According to El País, the government has opened an investigation after discovering that several production and distribution companies have falsified ticket sales for certain films to obtain subsidies. Spanish-made films which sell 60,000 tickets (or foreign language films attracting at least 30,000 spectators) are eligible for a grant from the Ministry of Culture – up …
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On December 1st Italian director Michele Placido (“Romanzo criminale”, “Angel of Evil”) began shooting his twelfth film, “7 minuti”. The story is about 11 textile workers who have the difficult task of representing 200 colleagues at a crucial union meeting. They are only allowed to talk for 7 minutes to defend all the workers, threatened …
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