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Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Arts is a non-profit cultural institution based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which is interested in projects that take advantage of new technologies in order to investigate and discuss the structures of (post)modern society. Aksioma concentrates on artistic production that explores social, political, aesthetic and ethical concerns.

Akson Studio is one of the biggest film production companies in Poland. Since 1992 we have been producing narrative features, TV series, as well as TV Theatre productions and TV shows. The company was founded and is managed till now by Michał Kwieciński, a reknown director and producer.

Launched in 2006, Al Jazeera English is a global 24-hour, English language news and current affairs channel, and part of the Al Jazeera Media Network. It transmits out of Doha to more than 250 million households in over 125 countries. It is available on cable and satellite, broadband and IPTV platforms as well as online via aljazeera.net/english, the Al Jazeera YouTube channel and through mobile phone applications. The channel's mandate is to deliver journalism that has depth and to provide context for the transformative changes taking place across the globe. Al Jazeera reporters look beyond the centres of power to examine the issues often overlooked by other media.

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Alasti Kino was founded in August 2009 by five creative filmmakers, who were schooled together in Baltic Film And Media School. Alasti Kino has since produced several advertisements, music videos and promotion films. There are three documentaries currently in production, of which all three have received support from Estonian Film Foundation and other local funds. Alasti Kino has received two prizes for best TV ad from the Union of Estonian Advertising Agencies.

The Alba International Film Festival is organized by the Association for the Spiritual Cinema Festival. It was created to promote cinema and other art forms dealing with various spiritual aspects from around the world, and the ways in which man finds his dimension in the real world. The Official Selection is reserved for feature films that have not yet been released in Italy. Cinema, a New Vision is reserved for feature documentary films without prior release in Italy. The programme also includes a short film competition, debates, seminars, retrospectives, tributes dedicated to several significant filmmakers, Carte Blanche - a selection of classics by an invited guest, Work in Progress - Italian feature and documentary films that have not yet been finished; Cinema Lessons - filmmakers attend the screening of their works.

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Albania Art Institute is a non-governmental institution that aims at cultivating and promoting art and Albanian culture creating a favorable and stimulating environment for the national art. Among other things, the Albania Art Institute organizes the Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF).

The Albanian Film Commission aims at promoting Albania and its administrative capital Tirana so as to attract television and film productions from Europe and other parts of the world. At the same time, the Commission aims at sustaining the local filmmaking industry by creating new opportunities for Albanian professionals who work in the television and film sector.

Albrecht Media Management focuses on film production and PR + management.

The official competitive section of Alcances is open to Spanish documentary films. Commercials, reports, fiction and informative films cannot participate. Documentary films are futher divided into three sections: Full-length documentary films (over 60 minutes), short documentary films (between 25-60 minutes) and documentary series episodes (under 25 minutes). The main language of the festival is Castilian. The best feature documentary film will be awarded 9,000 euros.

During the 41 years of its history the ALCINE has confirmed its prestige and has turned into one of Spain's most important short film competitions. It has become an obligatory point of reference for experts and cine lovers alike... Since its beginning in 1969 the festival has done a great effort to promote the evident great talent in Spanish cinema. Throughout the years the festival has evolved considerably. It has grown to it’s present significant international prestige. ALCINE forms part of an important calendar of film festivals in Europe, standing out in the area of short films.

The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) represents the interests of all UK writers and aims to ensure writers are fairly compensated for any works that are copied, broadcast or recorded.

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Ale Kino! is a Polish television channel launched in 1999, owned and operated by Canal+.

Forty years ago, in 1969, the 1st Festival of Polish Films for Children and Young People was held in Poznań. The event immediately became a unique, comprehensive and important festival of young audience films in Poland. The Festival, at first held every two years and focused on Polish film productions, became an annual event in the 1990s and went international. At present, under a changed name, it remains the only event in Poland of such a great renown and such a large-scale promotion of modern movies for children and young people. It is also well-known and appreciated abroad as a universal forum for young audience cinema, which supports promotion of Polish and foreign works and encourages discussion of important issues in the area of cinematography having so much influence on the upbringing of future Polish generations. The International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! presents those pictures for children and youths which fall outside any mainstream trends in the market and culture. It shows films which, with their sincerity, artistry and original outlook of the young generation on the world, escape excessive didacticism and mindless entertainment. The mission of the Festival is, first of all, to enable young cinemagoers to see this kind of film productions, to launch large-scale promotion of artistic, intelligent movies for children and young people, and to create a wide discussion platform for children’s cinema. The fortieth anniversary of the Festival is a chance not only to celebrate together or to take part in the international film world, but also to look into the future and try to answer the question of what kind of young people’s cinema is expected by young viewers, their parents and teachers; what kind of cinema children and filmmakers dream of.

Alef Film & Media Group s.r.o. was founded in 1992 in Bratislava. Our main activities comprise the development, production and distribution of audio-visual projects of all kinds and genres as well as various commercial activities in the audio-visual field. Our main business activity is the development and realisation of original film projects in fiction, documentary and animated film. The developer, producer and co-producer of the original film projects in the genre of fiction, documentary and animated film. We co-produced the projects with various partners (UNLIMITED Films Schiltingheim, DOR Film Wien, ZDF Mainz, Barrandov Biografia, cine+ Berlin, EOS Laussane, Margo Films Paris and others). ALEF provides high quality services for the realisation of projects of all kinds and genres by using the whole spectrum of visual formats( La SEPT/ARTE, Epo-film Wien GmbH, SBS Sydney, sFs FILM GmbH, Devine Entertainment Toronto and many others). Our films were selected and awarded on many festivals and competitions, e. g. IFF Karlovy Vary, IFF Yokohama, IFF Pusan. IFF Hong-Kong, IFF Mannheim, IFF San Francisco, IFF London, IFF Cottbus, IFF Sydney, IFF Palm Springs. The most successful productions: "Paper Heads" ( 1996) - e.g.: GOLDEN SPIRE 40. IFF San Francisco, "Runner Up" Prize 8. IFF Yokohama, "Zelary"(2003) e.g.: The nomination for the best foreign language film - The American Academy Awards " OSCAR"- 2004. "Music"(2007) – e.g. The Special Prize of Jury, IFF Warzawa, 9 x SUN in The NET - 2008, National Film Awards by Slovak Film Academy, The best film - IFF Zlin and so on...

Production company ALEF was founded in 1992 in Bratislava. In 1996 it went through a transformation and three separate divisions have come into existence. One of them is ALEF JO Filmstudio, Ltd. Both in Slovakia and abroad, we provide a high quality services (partial, as well as complete) by using the whole spectrum of formats of visual carriers. Our activities are development, production, and distribution of audio-visual projects of all kids and genres (Feature Films, Documentary Films, Films for children and youth and the like). Top Projects: 1993 7 episodes of TV series for children and youth Friends without Words produced for Slovak TV 1993 Documentary film Stanko Muzik Grand Prix Slovakia (1994) Grand Prix Etnofilm, Cadca (1994) 1994 Three 1-hour feature episodes of Composers´ Specials co- produced with Devine Entertainment Corp. Canada Handel’s Last Chance: Gemini Awards (1997) 1998 One Winter Behind God's Back - feature film, providing full services for Hugarian production 1999 Six 1-hour feature episodes of Artists’ Specials co- produced with Devine Entertainment Corp. Canada Degas and the Dancer: Humanitas Prize (1999) 2002 Documentary film Chatam Sofer Memorial 2005 Documentary film Mednyanszky KATARÍNA KRNÁČOVÁ has worked for ALEF JO Filmstudio since 1998 with various responsibilities: Production assistant, location manager assistant – production of feature films series Dialogues translations for dubbing Dubbing production manager Project work on compiling grant applications

ALEGRIA is a production company based in Paris and set up by Christine Camdessus. ALEGRIA specializes in creative documentaries. The productions initiated by ALEGRIA aim to associate European and international broadcasters. The projects deal with important contemporary issues and are written and directed by European creators who wish to work on ambitious projects destined to large audiences and ready to explore new formats for new media. Since March 2009, Serge Gordey has joined ALEGRIA as a producer.