Kosovar director Blerta Basholli’s first feature, Hive, will be released in France on June 1st. It has won many awards at major international festivals, including three at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival (Audience Award, Jury Award and Best Director). Shown the same year at Montpellier’s Cinemed, the film won the Antigone d’Or. It is also …
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The first Cine Donne Festival (Women’s Film Festival) will take place in Bastia (Corsica) from April 6th to 10th. This new event, initiated by the Communauté d’Agglomération de Bastia and organized by the Arte Mare association, is specifically for the work of international women directors. Like the International Women’s Film Festival in Créteil or Marseille’s …
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At the end of February Tarak Ben Ammar, the Tunisian head of Eagle Pictures France, bought the Studios de Paris. Ben Ammar got into the film business in the mid-1970’s and has since developed many international projects as a producer. At the end of February 2022 the EuropaCorp group announced in a press release that …
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The Ateliers Varan are asking for applications for a documentary training session, scheduled from September 19th to November 5th in Ajaccio (Corsica). Jean Rouch and Jacques Arthuys created Ateliers Varan in Paris in 1980 for aspiring directors from different countries. Since then the organisation has offered many documentary training courses in France. The courses are …
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The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has announced a subsidy for film and broadcasting production and marketing. €53 million have been allocated “to support one of the country’s main creative industries, with significant grants for young film-makers and for difficult films,” declared Mr Franceschini. Calls for tenders for these grants can be found on …
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The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and TV5MONDE are launching their second call for projects for the “Fonds Francophonie TV5MONDEplus” from March 10th to 20th. Financed by the OIF’s member states and donor governments, this fund gives “production and completion aid for French-speaking films and series from the South.” This new initiative hopes to …
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Since March 1st the fourth edition of the ePOP video competition has been open. The Petites Ondes Participatives (ePOP) have been organised jointly by RFI Planète Radio and IRD since 2017, bringing together hundreds of young volunteers from nearly forty countries to compare climate and environmental issues. Sponsored by Grand Corps Malade, this year’s competition …
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