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ISRAEL / Candidate call for the 2017/18 Greenhouse programme

The Greenhouse Film Centre has opened a candidate-call for the next session of its programme for documentary film-makers from North Africa and the Middle East. Every year a dozen candidates participate in a three-part workshop as part of the Greenhouse programme. They refine their documentary projects and pitch them before a panel of international buyers, …

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ALGERIA / The state wants to speed up its project for private channels

Abdelmajid Tebboune, Algeria’s new prime minister, announced on June 23rd that the question of private television channels would be “closed once and for all before the end of the year.” At a plenary session in which the elected members of the Assemblée Populaire Nationale (the Algerian lower house of parliament) discussed the government’s action plan, …

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PriMed 2017 / Mediterranean Short Films Category

The films chosen in the Mediterranean Short Films category for the 21st PriMed are: – BOLINGO. LA FORÊT DE L’AMOUR by Alejandro G. SALGADO – KACHACH, AU-DESSUS DE ZAATARI by Bruno PIERETTI – MY MOTHER THE TOBACCO GROWER by Stathis GALAZOULAS – UN JOUR À ALEP by Ali AL-IBRAHIM – WASTE NO.2 WRECK by Jan …

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ALGERIA / The government wants to give licenses to 10 private channels

According to Communications Minister Hamid Grine, speaking at a press conference in Boumerdes on May 14th, accreditation will soon be given to 10 national private broadcasters. In the coming weeks the Algerian broadcasting watchdog ARAV (Autorité de Régulation de l’Audiovisuel), will discuss which private channels will benefit from this measure which has been often discussed …

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TUNISIA / The winner of the 18th ASBU Festival

  The 18th Arab Festival of Radio and Television, organized by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), ended on April 28th in Hammamet (Tunisia). Numerous awards have been given to the Arab world’s best television and radio productions, out of the 230 works entered in the various competitions. Best Television Series went to the Kuwaiti …

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EUROPE LEBANON / 12th edition of the Samir Kassir Award

The call for applications of the Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom has just been launched. Created in 2006 by the European Union, this award commemorates a Lebanese journalist and writer assassinated in 2005. The Award goes to journalists who report and uncover violations, violence, injustice, corruption or mismanagement, often at the risk of their …

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The Creation of the Arab Film Institute and the Oscars of the Arab world

On December 10th, during the Dubai Film Festival, it was confirmed an Arab Film Institute will be created to promote Arab films. The project was launched by Lebanese producer Paul Badoudjian, who explained the idea had been germinating “for 10 months”. The aim is for the new Institute (AFI) to be both a platform where …

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