France’s largest rival broadcasters and local film organisations have made the rare move to come work together to create a body to protect the country’s audiovisual financial model.
Lafa (La Filière Audiovisuelle), literally, ‘The Audiovisual Sector’ has joined together the usually fiercely competitive TF1, M6 and France Televisions and producers’ union Spi and authors and composers’ guild Sacd, among others. Their objectives are to make sure the French government maintains funding for public broadcasters, ensure compensation schemes for intermittent entertainment industry workers are preserved, retain the tax credit system for the film, audiovisual and music industries, and to...
Lafa (La Filière Audiovisuelle), literally, ‘The Audiovisual Sector’ has joined together the usually fiercely competitive TF1, M6 and France Televisions and producers’ union Spi and authors and composers’ guild Sacd, among others. Their objectives are to make sure the French government maintains funding for public broadcasters, ensure compensation schemes for intermittent entertainment industry workers are preserved, retain the tax credit system for the film, audiovisual and music industries, and to...
- 11/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
France’s main free-to-air broadcasters France Télévisions, M6 and TF1 have joined forces with the country’s film and TV guilds to create a lobbying group to represent their interests and convey the role they play in supporting democracy, social cohesion and local culture.
Bannered “Lafa, la filière audiovisuelle”, which translates as the “Lafa, the audiovisual sector”, the new initiative was unveiled at a news conference at the headquarters of private broadcaster TF1 on Wednesday.
“Our organizations and companies want to recall the essential role they play in providing all of our fellow citizens with free and universal access to trustworthy information, to audiovisual creations envied throughout the world, as well as a rich offering of entertainment and major sporting events,” the group said in a statement.
“They guarantee the diversity of audiovisual and musical creation and its exhibition through programs highlighting the full diversity of French society and conveying...
Bannered “Lafa, la filière audiovisuelle”, which translates as the “Lafa, the audiovisual sector”, the new initiative was unveiled at a news conference at the headquarters of private broadcaster TF1 on Wednesday.
“Our organizations and companies want to recall the essential role they play in providing all of our fellow citizens with free and universal access to trustworthy information, to audiovisual creations envied throughout the world, as well as a rich offering of entertainment and major sporting events,” the group said in a statement.
“They guarantee the diversity of audiovisual and musical creation and its exhibition through programs highlighting the full diversity of French society and conveying...
- 11/13/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Directive now heads to European Parliament in Strasbourg.
The EU’s controversial reform of old copyright rules has moved a step forward after ambassadors from most of the 28 EU states agreed on a draft directive on late Friday evening (Feb 8).
It will now head to the European Parliament in Strasbourg for negotiations between MEPs during its Feb 11-14 session on a final, binding agreement.
The process around writing new EU-wide copyright rules, updating legislation put in place some 20 years ago and before the digital era, has been a rocky one on a number of fronts.
Europe’s creative industries are...
The EU’s controversial reform of old copyright rules has moved a step forward after ambassadors from most of the 28 EU states agreed on a draft directive on late Friday evening (Feb 8).
It will now head to the European Parliament in Strasbourg for negotiations between MEPs during its Feb 11-14 session on a final, binding agreement.
The process around writing new EU-wide copyright rules, updating legislation put in place some 20 years ago and before the digital era, has been a rocky one on a number of fronts.
Europe’s creative industries are...
- 2/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Broad acceptance film and TV industry will neogtiate a separate deal.
French president Emmanuel Macron has confirmed France will ensure the European audiovisual sector is excluded from any all-encompassing UK-eu free trade agreement (Fta) post Brexit.
Macron laid out France’s position in a letter responding to written concerns expressed by the lobby group, the French Coalition for Cultural Diversity.
“France has always stood by the exclusion of audiovisual services from free trade agreements. It’s a key issue, for the protection of cultural diversity, on which the Council [of Europe] is unanimous,” Macron wrote in a letter dated January 2, which was...
French president Emmanuel Macron has confirmed France will ensure the European audiovisual sector is excluded from any all-encompassing UK-eu free trade agreement (Fta) post Brexit.
Macron laid out France’s position in a letter responding to written concerns expressed by the lobby group, the French Coalition for Cultural Diversity.
“France has always stood by the exclusion of audiovisual services from free trade agreements. It’s a key issue, for the protection of cultural diversity, on which the Council [of Europe] is unanimous,” Macron wrote in a letter dated January 2, which was...
- 1/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The pay-tv network is a key financier of the country’s cinema.
Canal Plus’s recent loss of broadcast rights to France’s top flight football matches is raising questions in the French film industry over the pay-tv network’s role as a key financier of the country’s cinema.
The pay-tv giant lost the rights to show France’s Ligue 1 for the 2020-24 period after it was outbid by Chinese-backed Spanish media group Mediapro.
The Ligue 1 departure is seen as the latest blow for Canal Plus, which was once France’s sports rights kingpin, but has found itself on...
Canal Plus’s recent loss of broadcast rights to France’s top flight football matches is raising questions in the French film industry over the pay-tv network’s role as a key financier of the country’s cinema.
The pay-tv giant lost the rights to show France’s Ligue 1 for the 2020-24 period after it was outbid by Chinese-backed Spanish media group Mediapro.
The Ligue 1 departure is seen as the latest blow for Canal Plus, which was once France’s sports rights kingpin, but has found itself on...
- 5/31/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
French executive becomes one of only two non-us personnel on board.
Former Canal+ CEO Rodolphe Belmer has joined the board of Netflix, bringing the total number of directors to 10, the global streaming giant announced on Monday (Jan 22).
Belmer is currently CEO of Eutelsat, the leading satellite operator in Europe, Middle East and Africa – a position he has held since March 2016.
Prior to that, he had a long career at France’s Canal+ Group, which he joined in 2001 and rose steadily through the ranks to become CEO from 2012 to 2105.
Belmer was among a number of top Canal+ executives to be axed unceremoniously between 2015 to 2016 by chairman Vincent Bolloré, shortly after the billionaire became a majority shareholder of its parent company Vivendi in a move that gave him control of the media and entertainment group.
When Belmer was ousted from his role of CEO in July 2015 and replaced by Maxime Saada it sent shockwaves through the French TV and film...
Former Canal+ CEO Rodolphe Belmer has joined the board of Netflix, bringing the total number of directors to 10, the global streaming giant announced on Monday (Jan 22).
Belmer is currently CEO of Eutelsat, the leading satellite operator in Europe, Middle East and Africa – a position he has held since March 2016.
Prior to that, he had a long career at France’s Canal+ Group, which he joined in 2001 and rose steadily through the ranks to become CEO from 2012 to 2105.
Belmer was among a number of top Canal+ executives to be axed unceremoniously between 2015 to 2016 by chairman Vincent Bolloré, shortly after the billionaire became a majority shareholder of its parent company Vivendi in a move that gave him control of the media and entertainment group.
When Belmer was ousted from his role of CEO in July 2015 and replaced by Maxime Saada it sent shockwaves through the French TV and film...
- 1/22/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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