Franco-German cultural channel ARTE is considering a production pact with an Italian broadcaster. ARTE president Jérôme Clément said a three-country operation would both fulfil his remit to produce European projects of cultural or artistic value and enable ARTE to increase budget levels. He highlighted Italy as a potential partner, saying ARTE had already co-produced an Italian project in Nanni Moretti's Aprile.
But he reaffirmed ARTE's aim of establishing a pact with Spanish pubcaster TVE-2. The long-running negotiations have so far been thwarted by TV2 parent RTVE's US$4.8 million debt.
Clément revealed ARTE is now considering new projects from Lars von Trier, Ken Loach and Nanni Moretti. Outside the pact with ARD and ZDF, France's La Sept Cinéma will produce Sandrine Veysset's follow-up to Y aura-t-il de la neige a Noël?.
ARTE has so far produced Breaking the Waves, Assassins, La femme de chambre du Titanic, Feuerreiter and The Croupier.
'We aim to promote European film culture and are not completely upset when audiences are lower than we hoped,' said Clément. 'We take risks, we are attracted by originality and we don't ask ourselves if this can go out at 8.30.' AM
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