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EAVI's mission is to serve the public interest in the field of media and our primary objective is to promote and enhance the interests of citizens and media users across Europe.

 Watch the third Cinelmotion TV Programme

Europe And Latin America, two different ways of telling stories.

The third TV programme produced by Cinelmotion, the constortiun led by EAVI, is now available to watch on our website. The Cinelmotion project is designed to promote awareness and critical understanding while strenghtening the link between European and Latin American cinema. The third programme main features are an inside report on make-up films and an interviews with the director of "La vida de los peces", "La inspiracion de Van Gogh" and "Andres no quiere dormir la siesta".

Watch the Second Cinelmotion TV Programme

“Sometimes reality surpasses fiction but fiction is almost always reality.”

We have the pleasure to announce that the second TV programme produced by Cinelmotion, the consortium led by EAVI , is now available to watch on our website. The Cinelmotion project is designed to promote awareness and critical understanding while strengthening the links between European and Latin American cinema. The second programme is jam-packed with educational but entertaining snippets on the audiovisual heritage of Hispanophone countries, including interviews with directors, young people and film experts. Find out more here.

You can watch the programme here or on www.cinelmotion.eu.

EAVI’s participation in upcoming conferences

EAVI is pleased to announce that we will be participating as a speaker in the following upcoming media conferences:

 New challenges and methodological innovations in European media audience research 7 - 9 April 2011, Zagreb, Croatia.

International Conference on Communication and Education: Media Literacy Strategies 11 - 13 May 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

International Forum On Media and Information Literacy 15-17 June 2011, Fez, Morocco.

Press Freedom in Europe

Like many of you, EAVI has been following the discussion on the Hungarian Media Law with interest. This discussion has sparked some interesting debates on the state of press freedom in Europe. As pointed out by the NGO ‘Reporters Without Borders’,”the European Union is not a homogenous whole as regards media freedom. On the contrary, the gap between good and bad performers continues to widen”.

Earlier in February, the predicament of the media was also the subject of discussion at a debate organised by the think-tank ‘Friends of Europe’ on ‘Should the EU try to save Europe’s quality press?’ In the same vein, on 1 March 2011, the Council of Europe’s High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a paper on ‘ethical journalism and human rights’. This paper raises questions which are pertinent to EAVI’s work, such as ‘how do people judge what is reliable information?’

Reporters without borders: Europe falls from its pedestal, no respite in the dictatorships

Friends of Europe: Should the EU try to save Europe’s quality press?

MEDIA AWARE: EYAG BLOG

This month we invite you to take a look at what our EYAG members have been blogging about on our Media Aware blog.

Mattias Thisner, our member from Sweden has written an article on Media and Capitalism where he argues that media is intrinsically linked to the capitalist system and that ultimately, ‘truth’ is highly subjective.

Georg Hoehne, our German representative, has contributed a piece about self censorship in Western media, and the need to create our own media content to counteract the noise of the biased media corporations.

Do you agree with them? Feel free to post your own ideas and let’s start a debate!