British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

Working in partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the British Council makes five LGBTQ+ themed short films available for the world to watch online, for free, for a 12-day period. The line-up of films, featuring work by emerging filmmakers from across...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

Sicilia Film Commission: new funding for the audiovisual sector

The Sicilia Film Commission finances 34 productions, available the ranking of the supported works among feature films, documentaries, TV series and short films. “It’s a commitment that we support with conviction – says Sandro Pappalardo (Councillor...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

New acquisitions for Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro

Loro (Them), Paolo Sorrentino’s new film about Silvio Berlusconi (played by Toni Servillo), has been acquired by Curzon Artificial Eye for the United Kingdom, by Jinjin Pictures for North Corea, by Selmer Media for Norway and Sweden e by Infotainment for China. The...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

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...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

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...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

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,...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

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:...
British Council launches #FiveFilms4Freedom 2019

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...