INDUSTRY NEWS
July 2020
The monthly update on business news for professionals in the performing arts and audiovisual industries:
posting new productions, industry previews, calls, deadlines or job ads while connecting coproduction partners, vendors and buyers. Brought to you by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, the international business network supporting performing arts through audiovisual media.
WHAT'S ON AT THE IMZ?
Avant Première + dancescreen catalogues are online!
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Find that production you are looking for among the 1,900 music + dance films presented at Avant Première 2018-2020 and dancescreen 2019!
Digital Cross Over: Connecting the content + creative industries
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The IMZ leads this cross-sector project aiming at bridging culture + audiovisual content through digital technology.
The IMZ at Sunny Side of the Doc: The Connected Edition
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The Connected Edition of Sunny Side of the Doc, the international market place for documentary + factual content, took place from 22-25 June and the IMZ was happy to be part of it!
AWARDS + OPPORTUNITIES
DVD award for Vanessa
François Roussillon et Associés
Samuel Barber’s opera filmed at Glyndebourne has won the BBC Music Magazine award for DVD of the Year!
Show must go on – the FEDORA Digital Prize
FEDORA
In collaboration with the IMZ, FEDORA presents the 4 final nominees. Support them with a donation through the online Transnational Giving Europe Platform!
Stanza Media's ABBA Forever scoops 5 awards
Stanza Media
Stanza Media's film ABBA FOREVER won 5 Remi awards at one of the oldest and biggest festivals in the world.
WHAT'S COOKING IN THE INDUSTRY?
Guidelines for filming safely across Europe
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The European Film Commissions Network has gathered the protocols + guidelines within European Countries for filming + production during Covid-19.
New petition from Culture Action Europe
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The petition calls for a central place for culture in the EU long-term recovery budget and is supported by the IMZ and other cultural organisations.
Online discussion series on the future of film
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Watch the 7 weekly online workshops that UniFrance has hosted to discuss the challenges + opportunities for the future of film.
Online training for film professionals in times of Covid-19
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Seize the broad variety of online training programmes for film producers, VOD platforms, distributors and more, supported by Creative Europe MEDIA!
Open letter by UNIC received an official response
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The letter called for ambitious EU budgetary measures and has received an official response from the European Commission.
Watch this talk on the impact of Covid-19 on the music + film sectors
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The IMZ + other members of the EMC shared the results of surveys conducted among their respective members to analyse the effects of Covid-19 on the respective sectors.
MEET OUR NEW MEMBER!
New IMZ Member: Konzerthaus Berlin
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Konzerthaus Berlin offers a wide programme from symphony concerts, chamber music + musical theater to special children's concerts, old + modern music.
PRODUCTIONS IN THE MAKING
Concert de Paris 2020
C Major Entertainment
Live: Concert de Paris – 14 July, 2020 – EBU Signal available at 21:15 CEST!
Concert highlights at Salzburg Festival
Unitel
Unitel presents concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra & Beethoven’s Piano Sonata cycle by Igor Levit.
Elektra + Cosí fan tutte at Salzburg Festival
Unitel
Salzburg celebrates its centennial with 2 grand opera productions: Elektra by festival founder Richard Strauss + Cosí Fan Tutte in honour of Salzburg's genius loci.
New Documentaries on Salzburg Festival
Unitel
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary Unitel presents two new documentaries on the Salzburg Festival.
NEW PRODUCTIONS
ARTE invites to “Summer of Dreams”
ARTE G.E.I.E.
From 10 July to 23 August, ARTE presents the dream’s many facets in award-winning films, documentaries, star portraits as well as legendary concerts.
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III
Opus Arte
A triple bill of heritage works from three of The Royal Ballet’s most cherished choreographers.
Franz Lehár – 150th Anniversary
Unitel
A gala celebrating Franz Lehár, founder of the Silver Operetta Era, with Camilla Nylund, Piotr Beczała, Michael Schade, Manfred Honeck and Wiener Symphoniker.
Hauser: Alone, Together – From Krka Waterfalls
C Major Entertainment
“Hauser: Alone, Together – From Krka Waterfalls”, a special birthday performance during which Hauser turned 34 in the stunning Krka National Park, Croatia.
Les Heures Chaudes de Montparnasse
Poorhouse International
HD version of the iconic series, which covers the most important developments in the arts when Montparnasse was the place where it all happened.
Riverdance 25th Anniversary in cinemas
Stanza Media
Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show, postponed due to the coronavirus, is due for release in cinemas worldwide beginning in July.
Shakespeare's Measure For Measure
Opus Arte
RSC's Artistic Director Gregory Doran directs this new production of Shakespeare’s astonishingly resonant work.
BEETHOVEN 2020
Beethoven: the heard and the deaf
Beethoven Jubiläums Gesellschaft
What was the cause of Beethoven’s hearing impairment and could modern medicine have helped him? The Medical-musical symposium in October 2020 in Bonn.
European Cultural Award Gala 2020 is postponed
Beethoven Jubiläums Gesellschaft
Due to the current situation, the European Cultural Award Gala will not take place as planned at the opera in Bonn on 3 October 2020.
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