The highly anticipated film adaptation of Alex Vella Gera’s National Book Prize winning novel Is-Sriep Reġgħu saru Velenużi (Merlin Publishers, 2012) will hit the big screen on Friday, August 6 at Eden Cinemas. Ahead of its launch in a few weeks we speak to its director and producer Martin Bonnici. The film Is-Sriep Reġgħu saru Velenużi was produced with the support of the National Book Council’s inaugural Film Adaptation Fund.
This is your first feature film after a number of short films – when did you start thinking about making this film and how was the experience of getting it off the ground?
The National Book Council has convened the National Writers’ Congress as part of its legal mandate to consult with authors on the policies of the National Book Council.
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May 21, 2021 10:44 AM
The annual book festival organised by the National Book Council has a new venue; the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali.
Following a lengthy tussle with government to have full access to the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta after being shoved out to make space for a Cirque de Soleil spectacular, the council – led by the outspoken Mark Camilleri – settled on Malta’s largest indoor venue in Ta’ Qali to hold this year’s festival.
In January, Camilleri had appealed for political intervention after the Valletta venue was booked by the Cirque du Soleil, an event funded by the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA).
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‘We defended SKS as publishers’ says jury chair Albert Marshall over EUPL disqualification
EU literature prize disqualification: Maltese jury that presented short-list to Brussels says it went back to EUPL with letter justifying SKS’s record as publisher
13 May 2021, 12:08pm
by Matthew Vella
But it defended the corpus of work published by Sensiela Klabb Soċjalisti, in a letter to the EUPL detailing the corpus of work it had published and which included both works of fiction as well as political and party publications.
Jury chair Albert Marshall, who took the place of poet Leanne Ellul after she resigned the post, said it was the EUPL which confirmed that it would not accept an SKS publication because of its party affiliation.