New fund for co-productions Italy-France
At Italian Pavilion, during the Venice Film Festival, a new bilateral fund for co-development and co-production of Franco-Italian works was presented, with the support of the MiBAC and the French culture minister Franck Riester. At the presentation there were Mario...
Calls for audiovisual projects available this autumn
The next regional calls to obtain funds for audiovisual projects have been announced, being the one of the Regione Sardegna the closest to the deadline (September 13). It is oriented to feature-length films, short films, first works co-productions, screenplays and...
Cinema in paradise: the best summer in six years
Cinema in Italy has had its best summer in six years. With increased earnings and more public filling theaters, Moviement, the initiative that promotes cinema as a whole-year activity, has become a successful experiment. During the first six months of 2019, box office...
Milano, 462 film sets in 2019
Milan is an increasingly popular set for cinema and television. In the first seven months of 2019, the City of Milan granted 462 authorizations for filming or photographic services. From January to July, 14 Japanese productions, 11 British productions and 7 German...
Mediaset and Amazon: agreement for Made in Italy (MIA 2018)
For the first time, Mediaset and Prime Video, Amazon’s on-demand streaming service, have signed an agreement for the distribution of Made in Italy, a new Italian TV series on Italian fashion in the 1970s, presented at MIA 2018’s GREENLit. The great...#MiaBoxOffice August 22-25 2019: The Lion King rules
The Lion King has conquered the first place, leaving Fast & Furious Presents – Hobbs & Shaw second while Il Signor Diavolo achieved the third place. Discover the complete rankings of the last weekend of August 22-25, 2019. With the release of The Lion...
A Tale of Three Sisters (Co-production Market and Pitching Forum | MIA 2016) triumphs in Sarajevo
The film A Tale of Three Sisters, which participated as a project at the Co-production Market and Pitching Forum of MIA 2016, by the Turkish director Emin Alper won the Heart of Sarajevo as best director at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival. The film also won the CICAE...
“I’m in love with Pippa Bacca”(MIA DOC | 2018), on-air on Sky
I’m in Love With Pippa Bacca, a documentary by Simone Manetti, which was part of the selection of MIA DOC in 2018, has been aired on Sky Crime + Investigation. More than 10 years after the death of the artist Giuseppina Pasqualina Di Marineo (a.k.a Pippa Bacca)...
Online the “Crossing Script” call: € 10,000 for scripts on Israel
The tender “Crossing Script” is online, born from the collaboration between the Roma Film Commission and the Israel Cinema Project Rabinovich Foundation. The objective of the initiative is the search for cinematographic scripts in which themes and contents...
“Ciak in Lombardia”: € 80.000 for projects promoting the territory’s locations
“Ciak in Lombardia”, the call promoted by the Regione Lombardia, awarding audiovisual and photographic projects aimed at making the territory’s locations known for cinema, television, and advertising, or at promoting, in an original and unusual...
Bachelor in Paradise introduces first same-sex romance
Bachelor in Paradise, elimination-style reality competition television series, spin-off of the American reality television shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, has broken its rules by presenting the first homosexual love story. Tuesday’s episode of the...
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