Documentaries vying for the 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (the TV documentary awards) have been announced. Nominations are divided in 49 categories ranging from the “classic” documentary to news reports and multimedia projects. All the documentaries...
The complete line-up of the 74th edition of the Venice International Film Festival has been announced. There are many Italian works among the films in the official competition and in the other sections; some films were present at the previous editions of MIA, such as...
Canal+ proposed Tim group to create a joint venture to acquire television and invest in producing original audio-visual content starting from October. The majority shares of the new project, called Canale+, will be held by the Italian company, while French partner...
President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani announced the three films in contention for the 11th edition of the LUX FILM PRIZE. The first film is BPM (Beats per Minute) by Robin Campillo telling the story of a group of Act Up – Paris activists fighting to make...
The 14th edition of GiornatedegliAutori presents a line-up of 12 films announced by Director Giorgio Gosetti. There are three Italian works: The Contagion (Il Contagio) by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, based on the novel by Walter Siti and produced by Kimera...
Among the most curious news of the next TV season, there’s the new edition of Frigo, the docu-cooking programme of Rai2 where singers, hosts, athletes and entrepreneurs talk about their own relationships with food and they will show cameras the contents of their...
The line-up of the 32nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week has been announced. The section, dedicated to the debut films, revealed an almost all female selection: among the seven films in competition, indeed, five of them are directed by women, including the...
Camillo Sbarbaro once said: “Human race defends itself from geniuses by denying them and it gets rid of them by acknowledging them”. He emphasised that the world actually doesn’t love exceptional people, even if it apparently does; it worships and flatters them, but...
An article in the daily Corriere della Sera newspaper reads that Pietro Minto reports the Anglo-saxon critics of the first TV show by Apple. This programme, Planet of the App, is a talent show where wannabe startuppers propose their ideas for new (and they reckon...
The Lazio Region issued two new public calls to support creativity and the audio-visual sector, as well as for facilitating restructuring and securing cinemas and theatres. Details have been outlined by President of the Region Nicola Zingaretti, together with...
Rainbow, the Italian leading company in animation and entertainment for kids and teens founded by Iginio Straffi in 1992, announced that it has acquired the majority share in Iven S.p.A. The group, created in 1986 by producer Maurizio Totti, includes important...
He was in Rai for 33 years and he came out in 2016 after the last years directing Rai 1. At some point, the paths of Giancarlo Leone and the public broadcaster seem to cross again during the weeks when they need to choose the substitute of former CEO Antonio Campo...