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.
Category: WESTERN EUROPE
News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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EUROMEDITERRANEAN / Review of the awards at year’s end
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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SPAIN / Investigation into subsidy fraud
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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ITALY / Michele Placido’s 7 minutes and 11 women
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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SWITZERLAND / 3 new members of the EBU’s executive committee
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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GREECE / Millimages gives two animation programmes to ERT
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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Special Issue for PriMed 2015: the awards, reactions and photos…
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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