HBO and Rai have announced they are co-producing an eight-episode series adapted from Elena Ferrante’s four-volume “My Brilliant Friend”. These four books, about two young women born in post-war Naples, were originally published between 2011 and 2014 and are still being translated into a dozen languages. They have already been a huge success in France, …
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From March 13th to 17th the CMCA held this year’s session of the annual “New writing and new media” workshop in Marseilles. The six trainees were from Algeria, Croatia, Morocco, Tunisia and France. The five-day workshop is to inform journalists working with the CMCA’s television partners about new narrative techniques, particularly for web-documentaries. The …
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The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has appointed the members of the new Higher Council for Cinema and Broadcasting. It will be chaired by Stefano Rulli, scriptwriter, who previously ran the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome’s principal film school. The Council will be an advisory body reporting to the Ministry. It will be consulted …
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Italy’s national union of film journalists, the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) has just announced the winners of the Nastri d’argento for the best documentaries of 2017. In the non-fiction category, the winner was Carmine Amoroso’s Porno e libertà. It looks back at the Italy of the 1970’s, the beginning of soft porn films …
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The 18th Arab Radio and Television Festival will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from April 25th to 28th 2017. It is organized by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), in collaboration with Tunisian radio and television companies and in partnership with the prestigious ARABSAT, the leading satellite broadcaster in the Arab region. Created two years …
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The Goya Awards Ceremony for Spanish and Latin American films was held in Madrid on Saturday, February 4th. The award for Best Feature Film went to Tarde para la ira (The Wrath of a Patient Man) by Raúl Arévalo. A thriller in which a man takes revenge for a crime, eight years after it has …
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Jihad Abdo, or the story of a Syrian actor who fled his country and made a new life in Los Angeles. The name of Jihad Abdo may not mean much for non-Arabic speakers yet, this 54-year-old Syrian is a very famous actor across the whole Arab world, with more than 40 feature films to his …
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