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Created in 1995, the CMCA, a non-governmental organization based in Marseilles, is a Mediterranean network of audiovisual cooperation. It brings together broadcasting groups but also audiovisual producers and actors of the Mediterranean basin.
The CMCA strove to establish the tools and structures essential to develop a space of exchange, open to all public or private audiovisual operators interested in the promotion of Mediterranean cultures.
THE PRIMED 2011
The The 16th edition of PriMed is over.
The Awards Ceremony of PriMed2011 took place in a atmosphere of great gala of audiovisual industry in the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean challenges award "France Television" has been assigned to "Women of Hamas" directed by Suha Arraf. This film shows us the role of women in the Palestinian radical movements.
The announcement of PriMed 2011 Awards closed a special day "Mediterranean Image" held at the "Palais de la Bourse" of Marseille near the Vieux Port. In the program of this special day : a great conference about "Arab Spring Broadcasting" with the participation of Mokthar Rassaa, President of Tunisian television, and other personalities of the Mediterranean Audiovisual.
A growing success for this 16th edition of PriMed!
For further informations about PriMed 2011 and to discover the winners of this edition click here: www.primed.tv
SECOND SESSION OF TRAINING "WRITING NEWS ITEMS FROM THE ARCHIVE "
The second session of training "Writing news items from the Archives ", organized by the CMCA (Mediterranean Centre for Audiovisual Communication) and INA Mediterranean, has be held from 2 to 7 October 2011.
The second module provided:
- Training in the use DV Cam
- Shooting images
-Editing with archival footage.
The first session of this training took place from 23 to 27 May 2011. The participants, eight journalists coming from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordany and Turkey have terminated their training projetc.
Here you can watch the shorts films directed by participants.
CMCA AND E-MEDIA INSTITUT ORGANISED A TRAINING PROJET ABOUT NEW MEDIAS
CMCA and the E-Media Institute have organized a new training projet "New writing and new media" wich will be held in Aix-en-Provence from 26 to 30 September 2011.
Today and tomorrow Internet social networks play a decisive role in the media: Facebook, Twitter offer new possibilities of information, expression, participation.
For journalists, internet is an innovative and promising tools to find the best research sources for the production and distribution of content.
Training "New Scriptures and New Media" proposed by the CMCA and "e-Media Institute" provided an introduction technical and journalistic to use better these new tools both.
It aimed to train journalists in new narrative forms, in using of multimedia, in interactivity management, and in knowing legal and ethical issues specific for Internet.
This course has provided an opportunity to learn about technical writing of web documentaries and their derivatives, new communication and new styles of audiovisual production for news reporters.
THE OFFICIAL SELECTION OF PRIMED 2011
The Primed 2011 shows a considerable increase in film number (more than 300) and a constant variety of participating nations (more than 50).
The pre-selection works has been organised in June from 20-24. The jury was composed by:
Amer ABOU-DAYA – ALHIWAR TV
Nathalie ABOU ISAAC - CeReM
Jacques BAYLE – France Télévisions
Nadia BENDJILALI – www.lejmed.fr
Daniel BROUYERE - RTBF
Nicola CALIGIORE - RAI
Valérie GERBAULT - CMCA
Marie-Christine HELIAS – ina Médoterranée
François JACQUEL – General Menager of CMCA
Franco REVELLI - CMCA
Michelle STEWART – Associate Professor of Cinema Studies NewYork University
This year the selection hasn't been easy because of the high quality of the films in competition.
In the category for the "Grand Prix" the principal subjects are the status of women in contemporary Islam, the Israeli Palestinian relationships analysed with the original point of view of sustainable development, and the problems of mental diseases in Egypt.
In "Mediterranean Memories" category we found histories about colonial wars, utopias and transmission of memory from Spain, Morocco, France, Algeria and Italy. Differently "Arts and Heritage" category shows this year in a real "boom" of inscriptions and different subjects with films In particular we found in this category a lot of very interesting examples about the relationship between tradition and modernity in music and religion. In the others categories Primed offers an uncommon and original portrait of the Mediterranean sea: from “Arab spring” to Palestinian jokes, to the difficult situation of the remote mothers in Spain, to the never-completed buildings of the south of Italy, to the communities of Gypsies in contemporary Bulgaria.....
You can find here the list of selected films for the finals:
"Mediterranean Challenges"
- HYMEN NATIONAL de Jamel MOKNI
- THE HUMAN TURBINE de Danny VERETE
- ZELAL de Marianne KHOURY et Moustapha HASNAOUI
- WOMEN OF HAMAS de Suha ARRAF
"Mediterranean Memories"
- 70 ANS DE SILENCE - ESPAGNE, MEMOIRES ET TRANSMISSION de Emile NAVARRO
- ABDELKRIM ET LA GUERRE DU RIF de Daniel CLING
- FRANCOIS MITTERRAND ET LA GUERRE D'ALGERIE de Frédéric BRUNNQUELL
- INSULO DE LA ROZOJ - LA LIBERTE FAIT PEUR de Stefano BISULLI et Roberto NACCARI
"Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures"
- DAMASCUS ROOF AND TALES OF PARADISE de Soudade KAADAN
- FORTUNY ET LA LAMPE MERVEILLEUSE de Claudio ZULIAN
- MOUSS ET HAKIM, ORIGINES CONTROLEES de Samia CHALA
- MY SWEET CANARY de Roy SHER
"First Film"
- BLAGUES A PART de Vanessa ROUSSELOT
- DIARIES de May ODEH
- PARADISE HOTEL de Sophia TZAVELLA
- UNFINISHED ITALY de Benoît FELICI
"Investigative Documentary"
- KADHAFI, NOTRE MEILLEUR ENNEMI de Antoine VITKINE
- LES IMAMS VONT A L'ECOLE de Kaouther BEN HANIA
- TUNISIE, LES NAUFRAGÉS DE LA REVOLUTION de Alexandra DENIAU, François RENAUT et Christophe KENCK
- THE LAST BREATH de Sameh MOUSSA
- WOLVES PLATE de Mona IRAQI
"Short film"
- LIBYE, LES FEMMES DE LA REVOLUTION de Marie-Laure BAGGIOLINI WIDMER
- MON VELO DE REVE de Serda YALIN
- MOTHERS 15 CENTS A MINUTE de Marina SERESESKY
- SAYDA de Michael ABI KHALIL
- WARSHEH de Lucile GARCON
PRIX MULTIMEDIA DE LA MEDITERRANEE
- Geopolis - Maghreb
- Il viaggio di Mohammed
- Les Amants d'Alexandrie
- Une oasis sur la colline
- Un Somalien à Paris
As soon as possible you'll find online all video extracts of the films.
Click here to visit the blog of the Festival and to see the past editions.
CMCA and INA Mediterranean organize the Training for Writing News Items from the Archives. Edition 2011.
This training takes place in two sessions: the first from 23 to 27 May 2011, and the second is scheduled for October 2011 in Marseille. Régis Michel, director and producer (Pacifico Productions) will monitor the work of writing interns.
The objectives of this training are:
- Make people aware of the audiovisual heritage in the Mediterranean area through training programmes.
- Acquire the skills necessary for choosing, then writing journalistic items from material in audiovisual archives.
- Learn how to make a short news film from archive material provided by INA and the television companies affiliated to the CMCA.
The training is for Journalists and professionals with at least 3 years’ experience, coming from television, from the networks of the CMCA. For this edition 9 participants are selected. They came from ENTV (Algeria), Tunisian Television, JRTV (Jordan), TRT (Turkey) and M2 (Morocco).
The training is in 2 modules :
Module 1
Day 1 : audiovisual archives
Day 2 : writing using archive material
Days 3 to 5 : viewing available material; writing and editing a news film; viewing the completed films
Module 2
Days 1 to 3 shooting a short film on a shared subject using DV Cam, incorporating the archival images from the 1st session.
Editing and viewing
At the end of the trainig the best short report will be showed on Cmca's website.
Clik here to see 2008 and 2009/2010 editions.
CALL FOR FILMS - PRIMED 2011
The PriMed - International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Current Affairs Film is open to all film makers, television and production companies who, through their programmes or films, are part of the process of cultural exchange between countries of the Mediterranean basin in its widest sense, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. The works presented should be about the culture, heritage, history, societies and life of the men and women living in Mediterranean countries. They must not contain any form of advertising or propaganda. Each work can only be entered for one category, and the choice must be clearly indicated in the registration form.
Registration for the PriMed is free.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM AND - RULES AND REGULATIONS
TRT 2011 International Documentary Film Festival.
The festival aims to support documentary films, whether amateur or professional, to ensure their public visibility.
The filmmakers, who want to compete for various awards of the festival must register films before January 28, 2011.
Last year TRT received 232 films from 40 different countries. The selected films will be presented to the public from 5 to 9 May 2011 in occasion of the Days of the documentary film of the TRT. Three categories are in competition: the Amateur Category of the National Competition, the Professional category, and the International Competition. Registration is free.
Click here for further information or to download the registration form visit the website:
2011 TRT DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MEDITERRANEAN DOCUMENTARY AND NEWS FILM
The 15th edition : Marseilles 2010.
Sreenings, Meetings, Projections from November 28th to December 1st.
You can find the winners of 15th edition and all daily news on our blog:
PRIXCMCA THE BLOG
JEAN REVEILLON is the new president of CMCA
Jean Reveillon, Special Adviser to the President of France Televisions and former Director of the EBU has been unanimously elected Chairman of the CMCA during the Board of Directors held October 22 at the headquarters of France Televisions. He takes over this function to Patrick de Carolis, former President of France Televisions.
Jean Reveillon was appointed a few days previously director of the CMCA by the President of France Televisions, Remy Pflimlin.
During this board Maria du Bessé, representative of RAI, was unanimously elected Secretary General of the CMCA, replacing Paolo Morawski.
Click here to find further information.
The préselection of15th edition of Mediterranean documentary and news film festival will held from 27th November to 1st December in Marseille. For further informations visit the festival's Blog at www.prixcmca.wordpress.com
- Click here to find the list of selected films.
- Clik here to watch the video of selection works
MEDITERRANEE AUDIOVISUELLE Monthly Newsletter
n. 101 - December 2011 and January 2012
n. 100 - November 2011
n. 99 - October 2011
n. 98 - August and September 2011
n. 97 - July 2011
n. 96 - June 2011
n. 95 - May 2011
n. 94 - April 2011
n. 93 - March 2011
n. 92 - February 2011
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