The 31st FIDMarseille will take place as planned, but due to the Covid-19 crisis its schedule has been altered. FIDLab, the platform for supporting international co-production, took place online between July 6th and 10th. FID festival will be held in Marseille cinemas from July 22nd to 26th. It will be the first French film festival …
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Meditalents is organizing a residency for feature film scriptwriting, Lab Sud. Running from October 24th to 29th, the residency is open to directors and scriptwriters with a first or second feature film project. To qualify for registration, applicants must either: Live in the Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur Region of Franceor Spend more than 50% of the shooting …
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Once again Corsica’s GREC and IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologie) are presenting a university degree in writing, production and directing known as CREATACC. Since 2010, this Master 1 level course has included making a short film co-produced by the two authorities and developing a second writing project to be presented in an oral exam. The …
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On May 26th France 5 broadcast Algérie, mon amour, a documentary by journalist Mustapha Kessous. It caused an outcry in Algeria. In his film Kessous, a journalist on Le Monde, tries to explain the Hirak, an on-going popular protest movement against the state. Kessous focusses on five young Algerians under the age of 30. They …
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At the end of April, with many countries in full lock-down, the CMCA wanted to (re) discover certain films selected for previous editions of PriMed. They asked directors for permission to put their films online for free. The film-makers agreed, so every day for a month a new documentary was posted on the PriMed Facebook …
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The Documentaire Sur Grand Ecran association has set up a support fund for distributors of documentary films. Through this fund the association hopes to prevent any difficulties distributors may experience when cinemas reopen. The association was created in 1991 to promote documentary films and their cinema distribution in France and French-speaking countries. To help the …
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Le DRIVE-IN FESTIVAL was created during the Coronavirus crisis by a group working in the culture sector. They decided to do something about the fact that cinemas remain closed. Combining their resources they created a travelling, socially-aware festival to help cinemas keep in touch with audiences. The key is a drive-in cinema: a giant screen …
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