The American company DCR Finance Corp has announced it has signed a $500 million contract to bolster film and television production in Malta. The Wall Street-based company has created a consortium of studios and companies ready to invest in the island’s audiovisual sector. The consortium includes Italian producer, Augusto Pelliccia, head of Augustus Studios, and …
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The PriMed week began with the Audience Award on Sunday, November 25th. The auditorium of Marseille’s major museum, Mucem, was packed. Turning out in large numbers, the general public watched 6 short documentaries. But then choosing the best one was difficult – the quality of the films impressed the audience while the some of the …
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On the evening of September 21st in Beirut the Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) will launch its new channel, MBC5, specifically for Morocco and North African countries. Mazen Hayek, MBC spokesperson, says, “MBC5 has many objectives for the region, all of them ambitious. It goes without saying that this project will stimulate investment, significantly increase …
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The Arab Cinema Centre announced that forty-two film critics from thirteen Arab countries have joined the jury of the Arab Critic Awards for European Films, a new section of the Critics’ Awards for Arab Films launched in partnership with the European Film Promotion. The Arab Critics Awards for European Films will select the best film …
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The registration period is officially open for nominations for the Academy Awards Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) to be presented at the 92nd Academy Awards. To be eligible for this Oscar, films must have been released in their country of origin between October 1st 2018 and September 30th 2019. Once all …
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Close-Up, a non-profit organization based in Brussels, is offering their first international training programme for documentary co-production. The programme is for documentary film-makers either based in the Middle East and North Africa (Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, …
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TV5MONDE is again the most watched French-language channel in North Africa in the 15 and over category, according to the 2018 figures provided by Kantar TNS Africascope Maghreb. In the three countries concerned, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, TV5MONDE achieved a cumulative weekly audience of 11.3% in that age-bracket, its second best score since the study …
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