Developing and sustaining your film festival

Marrakech, 8th- 9th December 2014
With the view to setting up an exchange and support network for the Mediterranean audiovisual and film festivals, COPEAM organised, on the 8 and 9 December, a professional meeting around the theme ”Developing and sustaining your film festival”, in collaboration with ESAV Marrakech and with the support of the Euromed Audiovisual III EU programme.
Through working, debating and networking sessions, this training-meeting brought together 12 managers and organisers of Mediterranean festivals, offering a space of presentation and exchange of good practices on the problems encountered by this kind of events.

In the…

Developing and sustaining your film festival

MEETING – TRAINING

8-9 December 2014 – ESAV Marrakech

On the 8 and 9 December in Marrakesh, COPEAM, in partnership with ESAV Marrakesh and with the support of the EU Programme Euromed Audiovisual III, organises a professional meeting on the topic “Developing and sustaining your film festival“. 
Developed in work, exchange and networking sessions, this meeting-training, addressed to the managers and organisers of Mediterranean festivals, deals with the main challenges and opportunities that events like these encounter nowadays. 

The workshop is led by experts from the audiovisual and festival sectors from both the North and the South of the…

Training workshop on cultural journalism

Malta, 29 September – 3 October, 2014

The first training workshop on cultural journalism, organised by COPEAM and PBS, was held in Malta from 29 September to 3 October, 2014. 11 journalists from RTVSH/Albania, GPB/Georgia, RAI/Italia, PBS/Malta, PBC/Palestine, Radio Romania, TVR/Romania and TRT/Turkey participated in this 4-day practical workshop and produced together a 9-minute TV news package and a radio feature about some current and forthcoming cultural events taking place in Malta: the annual “Notte Bianca”, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, experimental dance performances, etc.

Guided by the 3 experts appointed to this initiative, Derek…

The 2014 activity of the “Balkans’ Memory ” project is marked by two final main events: a practical training on archives’ appraisal and documentary treatment, organized in Skopje from 28 to 30 May; the closing conference which will be held on the 19 November in Sarajevo. […]

On 24 May 2014, upon Algerian Radio (ENRS) initiative, COPEAM Radio Commission is organizing the second edition of The Binmen of the Med. This Euro-Mediterranean media and ecological event aims at mobilizing, through a radio coverage, volunteers from 4 countries (Croatia, Tunisia, France and Algeria) of the region to participate in a simultaneous cleaning operation of their coasts.

Editorial February 2014

For 3 years now, social and economic developments and political upheaval have profoundly transformed our societies and institutions. We have witnessed extraordinary events that have changed the face of the Mediterranean region, events whose repercussions are reflected in the everyday lives of its populations. On both shores, media are experiencing radical changes that undermine the structure and economy of the audiovisual sector. As we have constantly stressed, now more than ever we must work together, combining our energies and encouraging joint ventures and creativity. 
When Ina took over the presidency of COPEAM at this difficult time, its aim was to…