News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Abdelhatif Belhaj and Lolita Bourdet are appealing for crowd-funding to finance the post-production of their documentary “La pêche et l’olive”, filmed in Seine-Saint-Denis and Palestine. The film follows nine teenagers living in a district of Montreuil (a “difficult” suburb of Paris), who go to the village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah in Palestine as part …
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On May 3rd the Marseille-based director Flavie Pinatel completed a week’s shoot for her new documentary, “Les chants d’à côté”. Her subject is the Maladrerie, a district of Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), once almost a slum but redesigned by architect Renée Gailhoustet in 1970-1980 as an urban utopia, attempting to create a different concept of social housing …
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On April 18th, in Rome’s Studi de Paolis, the 61st Italian film awards ceremony honoured three films in particular with the much-prized David di Donatello. “Tale of tales” by Matteo Garrone and “Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot” by first-time director Gabriele Mainetti, both won seven awards. The first won the David di Donatello for Best Director …
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On April 15th the Board of Directors of France Télévisions approved the 2015 accounts, which are balanced – the first time since 2012 the group has not ended the year with a deficit. Although the provisional budget, estimated at the end of 2014, forecast a deficit of €9.8 million, the net result is actually slightly …
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The French distributor Aloest Distribution has launched an appeal on the crowd-funding site Kisskissbankbank to raise finance for the theatrical release of Tamara Erde’s Franco-Israeli documentary This Is My Land, winner of the Mediterranean Issues Grand Prix at the 2014 PriMed. Aloest was turned down by France’s Centre National de Cinéma, with the film scheduled …
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On April 9th the 22nd AGM of the Conférence Permanente de l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen (COPEAM), held in Ajaccio, ratified the renewal of the association’s governing bodies. Talal El Makdessi, CEO of Télé-Liban, was re-elected for a second term as COPEAM’s chairman. Claudio Cappon, former DG of Rai and vice-chair of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), became …
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On April 8th the Italian group Mediaset announced the sale of its entire pay-TV subsidiary Mediaset Premium, which has two million subscribers. Vivendi’s supervisory board approved the €800 million transaction. 89% of Mediaset Premium’s capital was held by Mediaset, while the remaining 11% belonged to the Spanish group Telefonica. Furthermore, as rumoured recently, Vivendi and …
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