News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
During its 75th AGM in early December, the European Broadcasting Union’s committee elected three new members: Monica Maggioni, new chair of Rai, replaces her predecessor Anna Maria Tarantola, who left the Italian broadcasting group in September; France Télévisions’ former chair Rémy Pflimlin will be replaced at the EBU by Christian Vion, the French television group’s …
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On November 27th Millimages, a French production and distribution company specializing in animation, formally presented two television series to ERT, the Greek public broadcaster which reopened its doors in June. Both series target pre-school audiences: “Mouk” (104 11-minute episodes) and “Didou, dessine-moi” (117 7-minute episodes). In a statement, Roch Lener’s company explained it wants to …
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PriMed’s 2015 jury announced its carefully considered verdict at the awards ceremony on Friday December 11th – with Algerian actress and singer Biyouna, godmother of this year’s festival, in attendance. From the 24 films in the final selection, 11 won awards – the very best in documentary, reportage and web-documentary. Throughout the week more than …
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From December 5th to 12th PriMed (Prix International du Documentaire et du Reportage méditerranéen) is back for its 19th year, already promising to stimulate, move, provoke, even change people. For a week at the Villa Méditerranée, the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar and MuCEM, the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), organiser of PriMed, is offering …
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The collective Diffusion KVA is organizing the fifth Med In Scenario, a script-writing competition, as part of the festival Les Nuits Med to be held in Corsica and Paris in March 2016. 5 short film scripts will be selected by a jury, developed during a workshop and then, on March 18th, pitched before a group …
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On November 17th in Strasbourg, Zaina Erhaim, a 30-year old Syrian journalist, won the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Award. She was chosen for “her ethics, determination and courage” and for her ability to “emphasize the human dimension behind the scenes of war”. Still based in Aleppo, for the past two years she has trained about …
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Andrea Occhipinti, managing director of Lucky Red, an Italian production and distribution company, is this year’s winner of the European Co-production Award – the Eurimages Award. It will be presented to him on December 12th at the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin. Founded in 1987, Lucky Red this year produced “Il Nome del Figlio”, …
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