NEW RADIO CO-PRODUCTIONS
On February 20 and 21, ASBU and COPEAM brought together in Tunis the co-producers of the new radio series dedicated to ancient and contemporary arab philosophers.
The meeting provided an opportunity to collectively define the cooperation and editorial frameworks for this unique podcast series.
This ambitious project gathers 15 public radio broadcasters from Europe and the MENA region: Algeria – Egypt – France – Irak – Jordan – Lebanon – Mauritania – Morocco – Palestine – Qatar – Saudi Arabia – Soudan – Spain – Tunisia – Turkey.
Another international podcast series…
“Inter-Rives 10 – The Power of Art: Creativity for Change”
Inter Rives is turning 10! In March 2024, COPEAM and ASBU launched the 10th edition of this Euro-Arab project, with a call for participation open to all their member TVs.
With the chosen title of The Power of Art: Creativity for Change, Inter Rives 10 aims to highlight powerful stories of artists all around the Mediterranean region who use their creativity to challenge stereotypes and foster positive change, addressing important topics such as gender equality, minorities’ inclusion, environmental protection and youth empowerment.
Each partner TV will produce a documentary of 13’ on the agreed topic….
Audiovisual cooperation with the regional broadcasting Unions
Tunis, 12 January 2023
The traditional ASBU-EBU-COPEAM trilateral meeting has been gradually expanding in the recent years, to the point of becoming, in 2023, a real summit of the major media Unions and Associations of the world.
In fact, last January in Tunis, in the framework of the 42nd General Assembly of ASBU-Arab States Broadcasting Union, four additional Organizations – ABU, AIBD, AUB and OSBO – joined the Arab, European and Euro-Mediterranean networks to discuss around audiovisual cooperation on a large scale.
The meeting thus offered to the participants the opportunity to broaden their…
RAI, COPEAM and ASBU together for audiovisual archives
From 14 to 17 December 2022, a training workshop on the digitization of AV archives brought together in Rome around twenty managers and technical experts from public broadcasters of the Balkans and the MENA region: HRT/Croatia, RTCG/Montenegro, RTK/Kosovo, MKRTV/North Macedonia, BNT/Bulgaria, PBS/Malta, RTSH/Albania, PBC/Palestine, Télévision Tunisienne/Tunisia, TVR/Romania, EPTV/Algeria, Libya Sports Channels/Libya.
The event was organized by Rai with the support of COPEAM and ASBU. Participants could benefit from the expertise of professionals coming from different RAI’s departments, namely the Centre for Research, Technological Innovation and Experimentation – CRITS, Rai “Teche” (archives) department and Rai ICT.
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“À Première Vue” Prize
As part of the support action for young Mediterranean directors “À Première Vue” – promoted by COPEAM with ALBA, ESAC, ESAVM cinema schools and the Uninettuno University – a Prize for students’ best short-film was launched thanks to the support of TV5Monde.
An international jury has been set up:
- Elisabeth Cestor (Mucem)
- Nicolas Feodoroff (FIDMarseille)
- Naïma Yahi (Historian)
- Manuela Rima (Rai Cinema)
- Kais Zaied (Naas Network)
For this first edition, each of the three schools has selected 5 short films made during the 2020-2021 academic year, with 15 total films in competition. Among these works, the jury agreed…
THE NEW TV COPRODUCTION “INTER-RIVES”
The 9th edition of “Inter-Rives”, the long standing TV coproduction promoted by COPEAM and ASBU, was recently launched. Through a call for participation spread in February 2022, public broadcasters from the two networks have been invited to join the project and take part in two professional workshops for the production – by each of them – of one documentary of 13’ on the main series’ topic.
The first workshop will be hosted by COPEAM in Rome (May 2022) and the final one by ASBU in Tunis (February 2023), gathering the group of selected film-directors and the…
ICO Solutions – Collecting witnesses: “Another view on the Mediterranean”
In parallel with the next IUCN World Climate Summit (Marseille – autumn 2021), COPEAM is joining forces with the organizers of ICO Solutions (an international meeting dedicated to the challenges of the preservation of coasts, islands and oceans) to collect witnesses from users of the Mediterranean aimed at the production of a series of 3-minute video clips from the entire basin.
The series is scheduled to be broadcast during a preview in Marseille on the occasion of the event, as well as on France Télévisions (France 3 Via Stella) and social networks. It will also be…
“SustainAbility – Stories of Changemakers”: the new edition of Inter-Rives TV documentary coproduction
COPEAM and ASBU launched the new edition of Inter-Rives TV documentary coproduction: “SustainAbility – Stories of Changemakers”.
The call for participation was launched to COPEAM and ASBU television members. 15 public televisions from the North and the South of the Mediterranean joined the project: BNT/Bulgaria, ERT/Greece, EPTV/Algeria, France Télévisions, HRT/Croatia, JRTV/Jordan, NMA/Egypt, PBC/Palestine, RAI/Italy, RSI/Switzerland, RTVE/Spain, RTSSLO/Slovenia, SNRT/Morocco, Sudan TV, Tunisian Television.
THE TOPIC:
According to the United Nations’ “Agenda 2030” and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the idea of sustainability doesn’t refer only to environmental issues, but it deals with a balanced connection…
Women in Archives: COPEAM launches the second edition of the “Making a story from archives” contest
Following the success of the first edition of the contest, which was dedicated to the cultural heritage of the Balkans, COPEAM launches the second edition of “Making a story from archives” as part of the mission and activities carried out by its Audiovisual Heritage Commission, in synergy with its Gender Equality Commission. This year, the contest is dedicated to the common heritage of Euro-Mediterranean women and girls and the participation has been extended to COPEAM’s South-Mediterranean partner countries.
In recent years, women and girls’ rights and gender equality have been put at the core of international…
