News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
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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From December 4th to 11th Brussels hosts the fifteenth Brussels Festival of Mediterranean Film at the Botanique, at the Bozar, and for the first time at the Cinéma Aventure. 70’s films from 20 countries are included in this year’s programme. The opening film will be Jonas Carpignano‘s “Mediterranea”, showing the dangers and tragedies of illegal …
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Produced by Taodue and Mediaset Premium, “Chiamatemi Francesco” (Call me Francis) looks at the path followed by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, particularly his life as a young Jesuit in Argentina during the dictatorship and Dirty War there before he became the Pope of the Catholic Church, called Francis, in 2013. The Argentinian actor Rodrigo de la …
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Ernesto Pagano‘s new documentary, “Napolislam”, was released in Italian cinemas on December 2nd. Originally scheduled for November 25th, the film’s release was changed by the distributors Uci Cinemas after the attacks in Paris. The director follows the daily life of ten Neapolitans who have converted to Islam – an unemployed person, a young girl in …
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