The 17th Medimed, the Euro-Mediterranean Documentary Market, will be held from October 13th to 16th 2016 in Sitges, near Barcelona. As every year, the event organized by APIMED (the Association of Independent Mediterranean Producers) will offer a pitching forum, lectures and opportunities for meeting and finding business partners for the best documentary projects from the …
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In 2015 the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE made an operating loss of €37.8 million. A statement issued after a Board of Directors’ meeting claimed the deficit was caused by “insufficient income” and should be indemnified by the state, as provided by the law regulating RTVE’s finance. The group’s channels also had poor audience ratings in …
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Spanish public television has a new director. At a special meeting of TVE’s Board of Directors on March 8th, Eladio Jareño was elected to run the public service broadcaster. Born in Barcelona, Sr. Jareño was previously head of the Catalonia branch of RTVE (the public broadcasting group which includes TVE). He’s been with the company …
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The Podemos party has set November 29th 2016 as the date RTVV, the Comunitat Valenciana’s new public broadcaster, will resume transmission. Under an agreement signed in 2015, it is the radical left party’s responsibility to recommission Valencia’s public broadcaster. The date is symbolic: three years ago, on November 20th 2013, after broadcasting for 24 years, …
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On Saturday February 6th the Goya Awards were held in Madrid, bringing together the world of cinema. The major winner of this award was Cesc Gay’s Truman.
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On January 31st the Acadèmia del Cinema Català staged the 8th Gaudi Awards. Two films were competing in the official selection: Cesc Gay’s Truman and Agusti Villaronga’s El Rey de la Habana. They took most of this year’s awards.
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According to El País, the government has opened an investigation after discovering that several production and distribution companies have falsified ticket sales for certain films to obtain subsidies. Spanish-made films which sell 60,000 tickets (or foreign language films attracting at least 30,000 spectators) are eligible for a grant from the Ministry of Culture – up …
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