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Palestinian audiovisual and film industry in focus at Euromed Audiovisual Round Table

02-02-2012

 The EU-funded Euromed Audiovisual III programme, in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Culture and the independent cinema NGO Shashat, is holding a round table consultation, on 3 February in Ramallah, on the type of actions in the Palestinian film and audiovisual sector that might improve the organization of its institutions, as well as production and partnership with other Southern Mediterranean countries.

 
A press release said the round table debates would focus on the needs and expectations of the main actors and stakeholders in the sector, with a view to greater regional cooperation. This initiative aims at fostering the development of film and audiovisual activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory with a dual purpose: to better identify, together with other players and contributors in the region, the support that the European Union could provide in response to local and regional needs in the Southern Mediterranean, and to offer to regional professional networks concrete opportunities to act as privileged partners of their European peers.
 
Various topics will be discussed with representatives of the Ministry of Culture, cinema organizations, private media companies, independent producers, directors and exhibitors, as well as representatives of televisions, with a focus on: 
 
  • the funding of films and audiovisual artworks, from the development to the post-production stages,
  • the role of national production companies and their sustainable entrepreneurial recognition,
  • the circulation (distribution & sales) of film and audiovisual production. 
Similar round tables have already been held by the programme in Algiers, Amman, Beirut and Tunis.
 
The Euromed Audiovisual III programme aims to contribute to the development and strengthening of the capacity of the film sector in the ENPI South region (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia) and to contribute significantly to mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity, in line with the "Strategy for the Development of Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Cooperation", approved by Euromed culture ministers in Athens in May 2008.
 
As part of the Euromed Audiovisual III Programme, the Occupied Palestinian Territory benefits from the following projects: ACCESS for market access in the digital age, DOCmed for the training of documentary professionals, Med Film Factory for the training of directors and producers and GreenHouse for the development of documentary films made by graduates of film schools in the Southern Mediterranean. (ENPI Info Centre)
 
Read more
 
Press release
 
Euromed Audiovisual III – fiche and news
 
Euromed Audiovisual II – website
 
ENPI Info Centre feature (Lebanon) – Seeking film producers to portray the ‘Arab Spring’
 
ENPI Info Centre – Audiovisual and Media
 
 

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