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TIFFCOM Wraps at TIFF

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By Liza Foreman  It seems that TIFFCOM, the market arm of the Tokyo International Film Festival (October 23-31, 2010), is not the highest-grossing film market in Asia for nothing.Drawing in  all of the major players from the Asian industry and a handful of key European companies, this year’s market took place in a luxurious high-rise building, offering fabulous views of Tokyo, perfect organization and just the right mix of business and pleasure. With a bustling scene at the four-day event ...

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MIPCOM: A Cinema Market?

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The 25th edition of MIPCOM, the indispensable meeting place for the world's audio-visual industry, throws opens its doors on Monday, October 5th, in Cannes. The global content event runs until next Friday. During these intense few days, the 13,500 participants from 4500 companies from every corner in the world will again chart the course for entertainment content across all platforms. If it hasn't been co-produced, bought, sold, financed, distributed or at least seriously discusse...

MIPCOM: A Cinema Market?

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The 25th edition of MIPCOM, the indispensable meeting place for the world’s audio-visual industry, throws opens its doors on Monday, October 5th, in Cannes. The global content event runs until next Friday. During these intense few days, the 13,500 participants from 4500 companies from every corner in the world will again chart the course for entertainment content across all platforms. If it hasn’t been co-produced, bought, sold, financed, distributed or at least seriously discussed at MIPCO...

Mipcom

One world, one language, one global market place: Television. MIPCOM speaks the unifying dialogue of the industry: Business. It keeps you directly in the frame of opportunity and informed of an evolving industry.

The Digital Media Festival

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The Digital Media Festival is a 3-day conference and exhibition for digital content creators. The seminar program covers filmmaking from image acquisition, effects and animation to editing and post production for cinema, TV, DVD and the internet.Speakers from leading studios will show their recent work, demonstrate their techniques and talk directly to you in a vibrant, engaging environment. Top cinematographers, directors and VFX artists will share their secrets with you during three days of se...

Youtube co founder to open first Broadband Video Summit

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Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO of YouTube, will open MIPCOM's first Broadband Video Summit with a keynote speech. The Broadband Video Summit will take place on Wednesday, October 15, at the 24th edition of MIPCOM, October 13-17, 2008, Palais des Festivals, Cannes. The new Broadband Video Summit is part of the MIPCOM 2008 conference program. It will provide a venue for the newest and hottest Internet TV platforms, media owners and cross-platform content creators to talk about the business models...

Mipcom announces Mobile TV Award Winners

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MIPCOM announces the winners of the MIPCOM Mobile & Internet TV Awards 2007. The international trophies were awarded earlier this evening in a packed auditorium at the 23rd annual MIPCOM (8 - 12 October, 2007, Palais des Festivals, Cannes). The winning titles were chosen by an international grand jury from a total of 32 nominated projects.Organised in partnership with Any Screen Productions, Marché du Film de Cannes & Short Film Corner, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, the MIPCOM Mobile & ...

Antalya’s Eurasia Film Market gets thumbs up

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The first film market ever held in Turkey ended yesterday in Antalya and was hailed as a success both by buyers and sellers, several of whom were clearly taken aback by the sheer professionalism of the organisers.A combined total of some 200 buyers and sellers from approximately 30 countries attended the inaugural Eurasia Film Festival which took place over four days during the week-long 43rd Golden Orange Eurasia Film Festival.The launch of the film market is a bold bid by the Turks to position...

Content 360 a new interactive initative from MIP-MILIA

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MIPTV featuring MILIA 2006, today announces the launch of “Content 360” – a new international competition to commission innovative, interactive content and applications for mobile and broadband. The winning projects will receive a share of a minimum €75,000 development fund. MIPTV featuring MILIA takes place in Cannes, France, April 3-7.Organised in partnership with the UK’s public broadcaster, the BBC, and the Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC), Content 360 will invite multimedia an...

Great Animators: Phil Tippett and Chris Landreth at eDIT 8.

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In addition to the Festival Honors Award to Phil Tippett, eDIT announces another animation master at this year’s Festival: Academy Award winner Chris Landreth will interview Festival Honoree Phil Tippett on Monday, October 10th from 16.30 – 18.00 o'clock. Animators and other filmmakers should not miss, when these two will discuss Tippetts oeuvre and beyond: the history and future of animation itself.Furthermore, Chris will present the making of his Academy Award-winning animation short Ryan ...

MIPCOM 2005 Conference programme highlights

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The underlying theme of the MIPCOM 2005 Conference programme is the Changing Landscapes for Television: From Programming and Commissioning realities to Cross Platform Licensing, Digital Technologies and Emerging platforms, this year’s conference programme aims to give the participants a deeper knowledge of all the new trends that are impacting the business of television.KEYNOTES:CEO Superpanel:The Changing Landscape of Television: Threats & Opportunities (Tuesday 18 October) Licensing Keynotes...

Film on Mobile time is ripe: Milia and Cannes Market new focus

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Cannes Market is launching a new initiative within the Short Film Market:The Short Film Digital Avenue sponsored by ADMC is a place next to the Short Film Corner where technolgy leaders will demonstrate during Cannes Festival the breakthrough avenues of new windows, new media, new delivery systems, adaptation of old media to new technology...New sources of revenues.A NEW AVENUE FOR SHORT FILMMAKERSBooths, displays, demos, sampling, The Short Film Digital Avenue is a co production between CannesM...

MIPTV/ MILIA: Business & convergence are Back

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Signs of recovery in the television and interactive content industries, noted at MIPCOM 2003, were confirmed at MIPTV/MILIA 2004, which took place March 29 - April 2 in Cannes. Strong overall attendance figures and a significant rise in the number of programme buyers at the markets underlined the renewed feeling of confidence and heralded an upswing in deal-making.Final figures for MIPTV/MILIA showed the number of participants had hit 11,110, compared to 10,186 at MIPCOM last October. 3,891 comp...

Television Looks East at MIPTV its China Day

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Television Looks East this Wednesday March 31st in Cannes The year 2004 has been officially designated by the French government as the Year of China, and that distinction continues this week at the MIP TV market here in Cannes. China is the major buzzword on everyone's lips as the television industry gets serious about trying to do business with the world's largest market. Gerry Easter, of Creative Media Group in London, is in Cannes trying to sell a series of "behind-the-scenes" documentaries...

Fresh TV from around the world at MIPTV

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FRESH TV FROM AROUND THE WORLD This special session, beginning this Tuesday March 30, 12-1pm, is set to become a regular item at MIPTV and MIPCOM. Hosted by Virginia Mouseler (pictured) - Managing Director of the WIT (World Information Tracking), an agency specialized in research and information on TV programmes worldwide - it’s sure to be an unmissable and informative event.Virginia will be introducing the world’s most popular TV shows launched over the past few months. The presentation in...

MIPTV conferences program

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MIPTV conference program: March 29 - April 1BRANDS & INTEGRATED PRODUCT PLACEMENTMONDAY 29 March 15.00 - 16.30 Auditorium A - Level 3BARTER ADVERTISING TUESDAY 30 March 10.30 - 12.00 Auditorium A - Level 3BRANDED CONTENT & SPONSORSHIPSTUESDAY 30 March14.30 - 16.00Auditorium A - Level 3FRESH TV AROUND THE WORLDTUESDAY 30 March12.00 – 13.00Auditorium K – Level 4WINDOW ON THE CHINESE TV MARKETWEDNESDAY 31 March9.30 – 11.00Auditorium A – Level 3PROGRAMMING, CO-PRODUCTION & PRODUCERS IN CHINA...

Jana Bennett will open MIPTV proceedings

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Jana Bennett, Director of Television BBC, will open proceedings at MIPTV and MILIA 2004 (Cannes, March 29 – April 2), with a keynote speech on “The Future of Television Programming in a Cross-Platform World” (March 30).Jana Bennett replaces former BBC Director General Greg Dyke as the opening keynote speaker. Greg Dyke resigned from the BBC on January 29.Jana Bennett’s speech will underline the growing importance of convergence to television executives – a subject which is set to be at...

MIFED official strategy for the future

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Audiovisual Industry Promotion strategy for Mifed 2004 and future guidelines.MIFED 2004The 71st Mifed will take place from October 12th to 16th at Milan Fairgrounds.The choice of the new dates has been based on the needs expressed by the market majority (attendance to the greatest number of markets) and to favour both financially and logistically sellers and non European buyers already in Europe for the market scheduled just beforehand – MipCom, 4-8 October.Mifed will be simultaneous to and in...

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