The first edition of the Doc/it Women Award kicks off
The first edition of the Doc/it Women Award, the prize organised by Doc/it – Associazione Documentaristi Italiani in collaboration with Women in Film, Television & Media Italia (WIFTMI) and with the support of the Roma Lazio Film Commission, is about to kick...
Production goes European. MIA at Giffoni Innovation Hub
Saturday July 29th at Giffoni Innovation Hub MIA hosted a panel titled Production goes European. How to create viable European Projects and new opportunities from EU co-production fundings for film and series content. The panel was focused on the competitiveness of...
Box Office July 24-30. Podium unchanged with Barbie at the top
Box office podium unchanged from last week: Barbie confirms the top spot with weekly earnings of 10,406,726 and with total receipts of more than 18 million as of July 30, the film enters the top box office ranking since the 2021 reopenings, but it does not end there....
Netflix looking for AI Manager
The Product Manager – Machine Learning Platform is the highly specialized figure Netflix is seeking through an announcement that appears on the company’s website. What exactly does he or she do? The company clarifies with a bulleted list the tasks the...
Vuelta Group prepares for acquisition of Indiana Production
Indiana Production is set to join the ranks of European independent cinema, gathered under the aegis of the Vuelta Group, a production company headed by Jerome Levy. The latter, after its recent acquisitions of Paris-based international sales company Playtime Group,...
Comandante and El Paraíso directly to the Venice Film Festival, via the MIA
Edoardo De Angelis’s Comandante starring Pierfrancesco Favino, featured in the sestina of Italian films in competition at the Venice International Film Festival from August 30 to September 9, 2023, is the new opening film from the kermesse. A...
Child protection in media use. MIA at Giffoni
Tuesday July 25th at Giffoni Innovation Hub MIA hosted a panel titled Child protection in media use. From the use of emerging technologies to revenge porn in the film and audiovisual experience. The panel, born from the collaboration between MIA and the Italian...
Premio Franco Solinas 2023 announces the 8 shortlisted projects
The Premio Franco Solinas, an international film writing competition, has closed its first phase and announced the 8 finalist projects out of 407 that arrived anonymously to protect the equal status of all contestants. Selected projects will be awarded the Premio...
Animal by Sofia Exarchou in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival
From 11 to 18 August, the Sarajevo Film Festival, the leading film festival in south-eastern Europe, opens its doors with its 49 titles in competition for the Heart of Sarajevo Awards, divided into four sections: feature films, documentaries, short films and student...
Trieste, the capital of Audiovisual. Positive balance sheet for AVPSummit
The second edition of the Audio-Visual Producers Summit, a three-day event-from July 19 to 21-full of appointments on issues of stringent topicality for the audiovisual sector with the participation of important players from all over the world, closed in Trieste. The...
Box Office July 17-23. Barbie dominates box office
The highly anticipated Barbie, the live-action based on the famous toy line, released on July 21, dominates the chart with € 7,717,161 and drops one place to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One with a gross of € 1,404,699 and Indiana Jones and...
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