
The event is to be held on the fringes of the Algiers European Film Days, a festival organised by the EU Delegation in Algiers with the participation of the cultural services of EU member states.
During the conference, Jad Abi-Khalil, director of DOCmed, a professional training programme co-funded by Euromed Audiovisual, will present a funding guide for producers with a documentary project. Euromed Audiovisual experts will also present studies on the sector in the region, as well as legal databases.
Regularly updated and available on the programme's website, the legal database offers access to laws relating to copyright and to the audiovisual industry across the region. The programme will also present the South Mediterranean Film Catalogue launched at Cannes 2013, which gathers information about 130 fiction and documentary films produced in the region between 2011 and 2013, including 12 Algerian films.
The EU-funded 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.