“Friday Gate and “A Love Story”  Winners of “Inter-Rives” 9th Edition

 The 9th edition of “Inter-Rives”, the long standing TV coproduction promoted by ASBU and COPEAM was launched in February 2022. Public broadcasters from the two networks have been invited to join the project and take part in two professional workshops for the production – by each of them - of one documentary of 13’ on the main series’ topic. 

The first workshop was hosted by COPEAM in Rome (May 2022) and the final one by ASBU in Tunis (February 2023), gathering the group of selected film-directors and the coproduction experts.
INTER RIVES 9 “People and Markets” aims to pull together stories of women and men whose jobs, lives, skills and habits are related to an evocative market of their country (i.e. fish, flowers, antiques, spices second-hand markets...).
The ASBU/ COPEAM special prize for this edition, according to the criteria of thematic relevance and audiovisual quality, has been assigned to:
 
“Friday Gate” by ABIR ELHAJRI (OMAN TV) and “A Love Story” by CLARA RIVAS ABANADES (RTVE Spain) for the best documentary of the series.
“Noora” by ZAINAB HAMARSHEH for the Special Mention “Woman”, in memory of Raffaella Rossetti.
“The Marketers” by Giuseppe Marino” and “Antonello Savoca” for the Special Mention “Social Message”.