Pay TV crisis in the United States
Cord Cutting is on the rise, in the United States more and more users are deciding to give up their pay TV subscription. In the last three months alone, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, 1.2 million subscribers have cancelled their contracts. The...
Film Commission Vallée d’Aoste: new 2018 call for audiovisual projects is now open!
The Fondazione Film Commission Vallée d’Aoste is launching a call for proposals for the development of audiovisual projects with the aim of promoting and enhancing the cultural and environmental heritage. The new call is dedicated to the development and...
VoD on the rise: even in Italy streaming subscriptions could exceed those of pay-TV
Italians like VoD (video on demand) especially in streaming, this is what emerges from a research developed by Ernst & Young. Subscriptions to online services will soon exceed those to pay-TV. Choose what to watch, when and above all where. Through VoD (Video on...
Tokyo Rewards Italian Cinema with The Vice of Hope (MIa 2017)
Great success for Il vizio della speranza (The Vice of Hope) by Edoardo De Angelis which won the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival. Il vizio della speranza’s story is set in Castelvolturno, Campania, and the cast includes Pina Turco, who plays the main role...
Lazio Cinema International: the €10m call for co-productions
The Lazio Region has opened the call for film co-productions operating in the territory. Here are all the details. The intervention aims to support investments in audiovisual co-productions involving the participation of the Lazio industry with the foreign industry,...
The audiovisual boom in Apulia
Today starts the shooting of the feature films Bar Joseph by Giulio Base, La Rivincita by Leo Muscato, Stai Sereno by Davide Dapporto and Mollami by Matteo Gentiloni. In addition to the date of the first shoot, these feature films all have the same setting in common:...
South Tyrol: 7 projects funded for the third call of 2018
The provincial government of Bolzano gives the go-ahead to the proposals of the Idm Film Fund & Commission for the support of film productions in South Tyrol. Of the 12 projects submitted in the third and final call for proposals in 2018, 7 have been admitted to...
How is the Italian cinema? That’s Paolo Del Brocco’s answer (Rai Cinema managing director)
Paolo Del Brocco speaks on some crucial issues related to Italian cinema. The managing director of Rai Cinema dedicates an article on the pages of the daily newspaper Il Foglio to express his thoughts on the state of health and current events in the film industry and...
European Film Awards 2018: Dogman and Happy as Lazzaro nominated
Dogman by Matteo Garrone and Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher will rapresent Italy at the European Film Awards (Efa 2018). The award ceremony at the European Film Festival will be held on December 15 in Seville. The two films have gained four nominations: Best...
How the #MeToo movement is changing Hollywood
The map of power in Hollywood is becoming increasingly pink. In the Mecca of cinema, overwhelmed by a wave of sexual scandals, women are gaining positions as managers, directors and actresses, and the number of female stories is also increasing, as shown by some...
Emilia-Romagna: 8 new projects financed by the audiovisual fund
Five feature films and 3 documentaries will be made with the contribution of the Regional Fund for Audiovisual Emilia-Romagna. The projects will be shot in different locations in the region. Funding for the second window of contributions has exceeded 705 thousand...
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