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MOROCCO / Filming Larry Charles’ “Army of One”

Morocco is the base location for Larry Charles’ new film “Army of One” with American actor Nicolas Cage in the lead role. This new comedy is based on the true story of Gary Faulkner, nicknamed “Mountain Rambo”, a former prisoner of Colorado who sets off alone to hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. He …

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MOROCCO / Morocco has its own equivalent of “Fort Boyard”

“Jazirat Al Kanz” is the new programme from 2M, on air since February 24th. It’s the Moroccan version of a popular French game-show “Fort Boyard”, already adapted in many countries. Filmed entirely in the famous Fort Boyard near La Rochelle in France during the summer 2014, it consists of ten weekly 52-minute prime-time slots. Several …

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TUNISIA / M24 TV: Tunisia’s new entertainment channel

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At a press conference on March 10th, the M24 Media Group announced the Tunisian launch of Maghreb24 TV, dedicated to music and entertainment. It will be transmitted on the Nilesat satellite. The programme director, Wahbi Ben Rhouma, said the schedule will include music videos and entertainment programmes of less than 30 minutes. The channel will …

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FRANCE / Euronews: Naguib Sawiris new majority shareholder

The European 24-hour news channel, Euronews, created in 1993 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), should see its capital increase with the arrival of a private shareholder. On February 24th the decision was approved by the Supervisory Board. Exclusive negotiations about an injection of capital from one of Naguib Sawiris’ companies had been entrusted to …

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FRANCE / 18th North Africa Festival : so far, so close

From January 16th to February 1st the North African nomadic festival “so far so close” came to cinemas in the French départements of Aude and Pyrénées Orientales. Feature films from North Africa and short films from both Mediterranean Africa and Europe were shown. The festival is a shop window for film directors from Southern Europe …

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MOROCCO / Ban on “Exodus: Gods and Kings” lifted

Ridley Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings” telling the story of Moses, has caused a lot of ink to flow since its release. Indeed, Morocco, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates banned the film, each for different reasons. In the UAE, the authorities refused its release because of “religious and historical errors”. In Egypt, the Minister …

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FESTIVALS AND FILM MARKETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN – From July to December

On this page you can see, in chronological order, the schedule of Euro-Mediterranean festivals attentive to the development distribution of mediterranean documentary films. Click here to see the festivals and film markets of January / June ► JUNE | ► JULY | ► AUGUST | ► SEPTEMBER | ► OCTOBER | ► NOVEMBER | ► …

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