Call for entries for the new edition of the Doc/it Women Award now open
The call for submissions for the second edition of the Doc/it Women Award, the award of Doc/it – Italian Documentary Filmmakers Association in collaboration with Women in Film, Television & Media Italia, has opened. The appointment is dedicated to Italian...
The Italian Pavilion returns and doubles at the Venice Film Festival 2024
The Italian Pavilion, the space that welcomes professionals from the audiovisual industry to the main international festivals and markets, will be back from 28 August to 6 September 2024, as part of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, organised and promoted...
Green Production Lab is born, where cinema meets sustainability
Green Production Lab, the innovative program targeting sustainability and film professionals, has been launched. Torino Film Lab together with the National Cinema Museum in Turin puts together a response to the film industry’s increasingly imperative needs...
Paramount and Skydance, the merger will close in the first half of 2025
Paramount Global has declared the end of the go-shop period, i.e. the window of time in which the Shari Redstone-controlled group with its National Amusement could consider further bids than Skydance’s, and said the transaction will close in the first half of...
Box office 19 – 25 August. Despicable Me 4 debuts and takes first place in the chart
The debut of “Despicable Me 4”, the new episode in the saga starring Gru, released on 21 August thanks to Universal, brought home €1,394,692 in box office, upsetting the balance of the podium: Disney’s title ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’...
TIFF2024, Italian films featured at Toronto Film Festival announced
Countdown to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which will open its 49th edition on Thursday, September 5, two days before the conclusion of the one in Venice, and run until Sunday, September 15. The overlap with the Italian festival is not only in the...
Filming Italy Venice Award returns to the Laguna
The appointment with the Filming Italy Venice Award is back, which again this year during the Venice Film Festival will award the best films, TV series and talent of the last film and TV season, in collaboration with the monthly magazine Ciak. In addition, the award...
Capalbio Film Festival returns
From September 19 to 22 the appointment with the Capalbio Film Festival is renewed, now in its third edition, under the direction of Steve Della Casa and Daniele Orazi. This year’s themes are storytelling and screenwriting, from book to screen, the stories and...
Fried chicken and unscripted shows for Chick-fil-A
US fast food chain Chick-fil-A, which specialises in serving chicken food, is in talks with production companies and Hollywood studios to create original family-friendly and mostly unscripted shows. The company is looking to enter the reality sector, which has shrunk...
Prix Italia, from 1 to 4 October the 76th edition of the award in Turin
Prix Italia is the international competition organised by RAI under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, which rewards the best radio, TV and web programmes for quality, innovation and creativity produced globally. Now in its 76th edition,...
Locarno77 rewards Jane Campion with the Pardo d’onore
Locarno Film Festival honours Jane Campion with the Pardo d’onore Manor, awarded to the extraordinary personalities of cinema, not only for the quality of her work, which has already won an award at Cannes for Lessons of the Piano and two Oscars (for original...
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