| 3/30/2009: In memory of film music icon Maurice Jarre | |
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French film music composer Maurice Jarre died in Los Angeles last weekend at age 84. He wrote the music for more than 150 films and worked with some of the greatest directors of the last 50 years, amo...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/3/2009: African cinema as a developing factor? | |
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The Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is one of the major film festivals of the African continent. Every two years filmmakers from Africa, the African Diaspor...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/23/2009: German cinema on the road to success | |
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German State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann highlighted the recent success of the German film industry during the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale): Last year German films obtained a record market ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/16/2009: Cinema in crisis | |
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It seems US film industry at last has fallen victim to the economic crisis. As known US films are in general financed by big private investors, whose economic situations are getting out of hand now. C...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: Gaia becomes the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture | |
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The Portuguese city of Vila Nova de Gaia becomes this month the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture, a qualification that will be attributed by the axis every two years.
In June, July and August...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/19/2009: Happy New Year to arts and culture | |
| During his visit to Nîmes last week French president Nicolas Sarkozy addressed his best wishes for the New Year to the arts and cultural world. He pointed out his hope to see the National Assembly pas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/13/2009: Paving the way for an audiovisual cooperation programme linking Europe and the world | |
| The European Commission is planning a substantial programme for international cooperation in the audiovisual sector. MEDIA MUNDUS especially aims at extending and intensifying cultural and economic re...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/9/2009: French cinema at its zenith | |
| According to recently published data by the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) 188.8 million admissions were registered in French cinemas in 2008, 6.2% more than the year before. Especially F...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/17/2008: departure – The Austrian way of promoting creative industries | |
| In 2003 departure was established as Austria’s first independent business development and service center for companies of the creative industries. Today it is considered a successful example for innov...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/17/2008: Spain approves decree to develop the Cinema Law | |
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By proposition of the Minister of Culture, the Spanish Council of Ministers has approved last week a Royal Decree that establishes the basis to consolidate the industrial tissue of the country’s cinem...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/28/2008: 17th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid | |
| The 17th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid will be taking place in Paris from November 28th to December 7th 2008.
Unpublished works at the frontiers between new cinema and contemporary ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/25/2008: Grading the cultural offer of France Télévisions | |
| The new duty book of the French public broadcasting corporation France Télévisions obliges its stations (France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and RFO) to air at least one cultural program a day and ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/17/2008: Culturebox – France’s new culture guide | |
| The French public TV channel France 3 has launched a culture guide on the internet based on the diverse reportages from the 60 regional editorial offices as well as the national programs.
“Culturebo...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/29/2008: Alternative urban culture revitalizes downtown Lisbon | |
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Five associations with different profiles have filled downtown Lisbon with new cultural activities that go from music to cinema, as well as dance and theatre – all with the same goal: to make culture ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/29/2008: 1st European Film Music Days in Paris | |
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On the 17th of November 2008 we will celebrate the centenary of the first score specifically written for a film by a renowned composer. The famous Camille Saint Saëns (1835-1921) composed the music fo...... Read Announcement... |
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