Towards the Harmonization of Regional Funds, the Path Started by Italian Film Commissions: Analysis, Comparisons and Future Steps
The panel Towards the harmonization of regional funds, the path started by Italian Film Commission: analysis, comparisons and future steps, was concluded in the setting of Nuovo Cinema Barberini. The event, attended by Cristina Priarone, IFC President...
The New Phase of the Italian Documentary
Held in the splendid setting of the Nuovo Cinema Barberini, the conference “The New Phase of the Italian Documentary”. Strategies and Alliances for the moment lived by the documentary in Italy together with the renewed interest of the public,...
Direzione Generale Cinema e audiovisivo, 11 million for projects of territorial relevance
The Direzione Generale Cinema e audiovisivo approved the final ranking of the Notice “Il cinema e l’audiovisivo a scuola – Progetti di rilevanza territoriale”, granting contributions to 150 projects from all over Italy. A year of great numbers, especially if we...
Survivors, the new international co-production
Four students of the Master in Serial Writing organised by Rai Fiction are the creators of Rai’s new Italian-led international co-production. The latter has ventured into collaborating with the two European public services France Télévisions (France) and ZDF...
Media For Europe, 1.3 billion revenue in the first half of 2022
In the first half of 2022, Media For Europe reported consolidated net revenues of EUR 1.388.5 million and declining debt despite the international crisis situation. MFE-Media For Europe was established in 2021 after Mediaset moved its registered office to the...
The new call for co-pro between Italy and Portugal
The call for the development of co-productions of cinematographic works between Italy and Portugal has been published. The Fund is aimed at the implementation of projects of cinematographic works, regardless of genre (fiction, animation and documentary), in...
Solinas Award, the future of the industry
Set on La Maddalena island, in Sardinia, the annual Solinas Award decided, this year, to open its doors with a commemoration of Franco Solinas, the author who actually gave his name to the award. Forty years after his death, Gillo Pontecorvo movie, The Wide Blue Road,...
Cinecittà, Funds for Internationalisation are now open
Cinecittà, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, has opened the Funds for Internationalisation, the measures to foster the diffusion of Italian cinematographic products abroad. There are four funds, subdivided according to their function, and each one...
Mediaset launches its offer for M6
Mfe-MediaforEurope, too, decided to launch its (non-binding) bid to acquire 48.3% of M6, the French channel owned by Germany’s Rtl, after the stop to its merger with Tf1. It is now up to Rtl to decide what to do with its share (estimated at between 700...Italian Box Office 19-25 September 2022: Avatar in pole position
Just a few days after its return on the big screen Avatar wins and takes the top spot at the Italian box office. In its first week, James Cameron’s Avatar polarises the attention of Italian theatres with a revenue of €1,656,035: the 2009 film, remembered as one...
