The first edition of the Apulia Mediterranean CoProduction Forum, organised by COPEAM and by the Apulia Film Commissionin cooperation with BIgSur , has taken place in Specchia (Lecce) on the 26th July, in the framework of the 5th edition of Festa di Cinema del Reale. Such event, that has been settled in the beautiful Black Friars Convent of Specchia, has gathered together the Directors of Programmes of EPTV (Djamel Benrabah - Algeria), PBC (Yahia Barakat - Palestine), RTVSH (Anila Varfi - Albania), JRTV (Nadia Al Nashashibi - Jordan) as well as the representatives of HRTV ( Andrea Cakic) and RAI Educational (Markus Nikel), and 15 producers that had the opportunity to present their co-production projects.
Among them, many producers members of COPEAM: 01 Communication , ARCA Consulting , EB Communication, Eastwest productions and INTESA cp. During the opening ceremony the President of the Apulia Film Commission Oscar Iarussi has presented the fund for co-productions
whose aim is that of encouraging the audiovisual productions in the Apulia territory, promoting at the same time the role of the region in the Mediterranean area.
The Apulia Mediterranean CoProduction Forum has been a first, important step of the new path COPEAM has started sketching for the promotion and the diffusion of the Mediterranean audiovisual products.