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PERSONALITIES OF THE YEAR

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Photographer and filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand discusses the media’s role in creating global change page 28

MEDIA MASTERMIND

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NEWS ‘There isn’t a secret formula’ MIPCOM Personalities Of The Year Dana Walden and Gary Newman talk about their long-standing business relationship and their approach to making hit shows

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OX TV Group’s Dana Walden and Gary Newman are joint MIPCOM Personalities Of The Year. It’s the first time since the award’s inception, back in 1989, that two people have shared the title, a testament to the fact that the pair work so effectively as a team.

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joint heads of the Group a little over a year ago. And the responsibilities of running Fox TV Studios, Fox 21 and the network has led to changes in the way they operate as a team. “There are two big changes — one is a change in just the sheer volume of work where we’re now overseeing companies that are extremely prolific and have a lot of output on a daily basis; there are so many issues to cover and just trying to stay on top the daily activity of those organisations has doubled our workload,” Walden said. “Gary and I spend more time apart now than we ever have in our partnership and we’ve worked together for a very long time, as partners for 16 years and working together for 23 years. But there’s so much to do now that we are more than ever dividing to conquer, and based on the trust and security and the longevity of this partnership it’s been possible to do that in a pretty easy way because of how… united we are in

terms of our goals for these organisations.”

Walden said their “unique” partnership grew organically. “I would argue that it is not that the two of us have to work together to make this situation functional and successful, I would say that what both of us bring to the job is pretty meaningful, that we value this partnership and that it has been our choice to remain in a partnership all of these years, and that has been a great benefit to the organisations that we’ve overseen.”

So do people respond differently to a partnership as opposed to a single leader? “Dana and I have always worked pretty hard to have great communication and make sure that people are not getting one answer from one of us and then trying to get a different answer from the other, because that would be pretty disruptive,” Newman said. “With business relationships there’s a chemical, emotional element and there’ll be people who relate better to Dana and some that may relate better to

me and there’s certainly nothing wrong with having that mentality of combining and conquering.”

One constant during the pair’s time at Fox has been the continual stream of hit shows. “I can remember various times in our careers up until now where we’ve had the number one and two shows on different networks,” Walden said. “Or being at the Emmys when our shows have been rewarded as both the best dramas and best comedies of that season which is a pretty extraordinary feeling and makes for a fantastic Emmy party. Modern Family and Homeland, or Ally McBeal and The Practice — we swept both categories and that’s gratifying,” So is there a secret to this hitmaking? “You know what? There isn’t a secret formula, but there is a process which we instituted at the studio which is we get into business with the best possible creators,” Newman said. “We have, I think, very good taste in creators and we work very hard on maintaining those partnerships.”

Dana Walden and Gary Newman give a MIPCOM keynote today in the Grand Auditorium at 14.30. Tonight they will receive the MIPCOM Personalities Of The Year Award from Reed MIDEM CEO Paul Zilk at a gala dinner at the Carlton hotel.

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MGC boss tells programme makers to ‘dare to be good’

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TANOESOEDIBJO WARNS AGAINST ‘LOSS LEADERS’ RUDY Tanoesoedibjo, president director of PT MNC Sky Vision, the largest integrated media group in Indonesia, went on the offensive against ‘disruptors’ at yesterday’s session entitled Indonesia, New Emerging Media Market In Asia.

He criticised new channels for offering what he said were loss-leading subscription deals which messed things up for existing players.

“Don’t try to make money from me,” he said. “Make it with me.”

With a population of 250 million, an average age of 27 years, and a booming middle class, Indonesia is certainly a big market. And it’s a media-hungry one. It has the highest per capita TV viewing in Asia at four to five hours per day, huge numbers of Facebook and Twitter users, and vast potential for pay-TV. Tanoesoedibjo was in conversation with Nadav Palti, CEO and president of Dori Media Group, who asked if growing his channels from two to 21 in recent years is designed to discourage others.

Tanoesoedibjo denied it, saying he welcomed international channels such as Disney, Sony 1, Cartoon Network and Dori’s own Baby TV. “There are big opportunities in Indonesia if you do it in the right way,” Tanoesoedibjo said. “But don’t support disruptors. Let’s grow the pie together.”

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HEN it comes to content, Mark Gordon, CEO of The Mark Gordon Company (MGC), told delegates at yesterday’s Media Mastermind Keynote, audiences don’t know what they want, “they just want good”.

And Gordon, with four shows currently on air in the US, and more than 100 TV shows and feature films to his credit — including Grey’s Anatomy, Saving Private Ryan and Danny Boyledirected Steve Jobs — should know. “People say there’s too much TV,” he said. “But I don’t think there’s too much good TV. What I’ve always tried to do is make the things I’ve fallen in love with and hope there’s an audience for them.”

He added: “As an entrepreneur, you succeed or fail on your wins or losses. You have to be bold and careful at the same time. I have to make sure I’m not too cautious, because being fearful is not the

best way to do good work.”

Gordon said many international buyers were frustrated by the present dearth of quality procedurals. “One of the things I’m doing this week is talking about how it’s possible to create these kind of shows for the international market,” he added. His latest project, Darkness Falls, is partly a response to that demand — and is also the first time that MGC has ventured into international coproduction. MGC and Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 TV are developing the procedural based on a script by Erica Messer (Criminal Minds), which is set in the US and features a two-person FBI team solving brutal small-town homicides.

In addition to its creative projects, MGC is now an active financier of independent, third-party film and TV projects via its relationship with Entertainment One (eOne), which acquired a 51% stake in MGC in January. The deal has created an independent

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TV and film studio that brings together MGC’s creative vision with the financial and distribution clout of a global studio.

“The biggest change in the last few years is that everybody is now trying to produce movies and TV,” Gordon said. “I was early in both. I found some stories worked better on smaller screens. Now US producers are focusing on every opportunity to find finance, and so they’re looking at the international market.

For the longest time, US producers didn’t have a passport, but that world has gone.”

Nevins: ‘let showrunners run’ CBS CORPORATION’s premium pay-TV broadcaster Showtime Networks is home to critically acclaimed scripted shows including Homeland, Masters Of Sex, Ray Donovan and the newly launched drama Billions. Explaining the company’s strategy during his Media Mastermind Keynote yesterday, Showtime president David Nevins said: “Five years ago we decided to really start pushing resources towards owned, original content.

Now I think we have the most cutting-edge, progressive, adult premium comedy and drama anywhere.”

Explaining how he gets the best out of showrunners, Nevins said he wasn’t too prescriptive: “There is daily interaction and I let them know what I think. But if there

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is a creative dispute, they have the final say. We’re not trying to make their shows fit an abstract definition of Showtime.”

Nevins shared the forum with CBS Global Distribution president and CEO Armando Nunez, whose division licences Showtime content abroad, alongside other shows from the CBS family. “Now is a great time because there is super demand for highend premium content that can

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drive viewership and subscribers,” he said.

Asked about the ideal home for Showtime’s predominantly serialised content, he said it tends to play better on pay-TV or SVOD. “But the great news for the CBS group is that we also have the kind of procedural dramas that mainstream broadcasters want — for example Limitless. Today there is a platform for every kind of content if it is good enough.”

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NEWS Writers, actors and producers Conference hears how music can on Turkish TV’s successes be crucial to a great TV show

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ELIN Arat, director of international operations at Turkey’s Tims Productions, was among the speakers highlighting the contribution Turkish original drama has made to the global TV business. During the panel session Turkey: Home Of ‘Dizi’ Content, Arat joined fellow experts to discuss why several local drama hits are being adapted internationally.

An example is Tims Productions’

THE PANEL Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Music Rights (But Were Afraid To Ask), convened by the French music collecting society SACEM, gathered a panel of experts to explain the often confusing and intimidating subject of music rights — one of growing importance for TV companies, because music can play such a key role in shows.

Alexandre Mahout, head of music at EuropaCorp, discussed the myths around music licensing. “Quite often, a director says ‘in this scene, I want something blue’, and even though it can take some time to figure out what exactly ‘blue’ means, when you do, 80% of the job is done,” he said.

“If a project is short on budget and I propose something to the director, he’ll assume I’ve chosen the cheapest song, but of course that is not necessarily the case. It’s all about negotiating skills.”

Cecile Rap-Veber, director of licensing and international collection at SACEM, spelt out some common difficulties. “Problems can happen when TV companies don’t understand the various differ-

Game Of Silence, which has been sold to US network NBC. Another local hit doing very well abroad is Cherry Season by Fox Turkey.

The other speakers praising the dizzying achievements of Turkish Dizis were Hilal Saral, director at drama powerhouse Ay Yapim, actors Tuba Buyukustun and Halit Ergenc, and Kerem Deren, writer and founding partner of content development company Writer’s Room (Yazi Odasi).

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IBRAHIM Eren, the deputy director general of Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT-Turkish Radio and Television Corp, gave a bullish presentation about the country’s vibrant TV business. During his speech for the Turkish Public TV In Focus session, Eren explained why TRT no longer provides the conventional public broadcast service.

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ent rights, which include composer rights and publishing rights, as well as collective licensing rights for the broadcast of a show across different platforms,” she said.

“And in terms of lower budgets, when you work with a composer but can’t pay a big fee, you can make a deal based on the wide distribution of a show, which means that the composer will receive more money from their collecting society.”

SACEM’s Cecile Rap-Veber

YESTERDAY’s Ultra-HD showcase featured a stellar line-up of speakers including Dennis Arnoldus of K iem Media, Rene Delwel of Un ite d, A s t r a’s Wo l fg a n g Elsasser (pictured) and iTV’s Kartikeya Sha r ma. Delegates were shown examples of current content and spea kers explained exactly why UHD is a n indust r y ga mechanger: “UHD offers an immersive viewing field, fantastic depth of field and considerably more resolution and detail,” Elsasser said.

tions for Turkey’s population of 76 million has heightened the competition in the market, he said. And TRT is determined to be a leader of the pack by commissioning high-end drama, acquiring hit feature films and investing more in original content. His presentation came shortly before the broadcaster announced plans to launch a global edition of its kids TV channel TRT Cocuk early next year.

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We all believe in demons, says Outcast producer David Alpert

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OX INTERNATIONAL Studio’s (FIS) new exorcism drama Outcast has a couple of things in common with The Walking Dead — the talent of comic-book writer Robert Kirkman and executive producers David Alpert and Sharon Tal Yguado.

“Whereas I had to work really hard with The Walking Dead to convince people zombies are real — though I of course believe they are — the majority of the world really does believe in demonic possession,” Alpert said at yesterday’s Outcast keynote session. In order not to

offend believers or turn off nonbelievers, “our approach had to be grounded and real”, he added.

“But we had great creative shorthand with Fox from day one.

Everybody was on board with the vision of a character-driven demonic possession show.”

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Patrick Fugit: “Television has the ability to tell larger stories”

Sharon Tal Yguado: “a very relatable human story”

David Alpert: “great creative shorthand with Fox”

Euro drama must follow ‘the three Ds’ PAY-TV needs to consistently offer “something really spe-

cial” said Anne Mensah, head of drama at Sky, at the panel European Drama: One Step Beyond.

“I think it’s just about the way you go into it and putting creativity at the absolute heart.

Then, making sure as a broadcaster you’re protecting your writers and producers and not driving them insane with stupid notes. So making sure that it’s a good creative partnership is absolutely what underlines it.”

Alex Berger, founder and chairman of TOP — The Olligarchs Production — stressed the importance of “the three Ds” — development money, deficit financing and distribution. “Therefore, letting us independent producers go ahead with the products that we think

Moderator Michael Pickard (left), Alex Berger of TOP, Anne Mensah of Sky and Sammy Nourmand of Keshet

are interesting, convincing first ourselves that it is worthwhile, having the funds to aggregate talent, getting the writers together and then going to find the best broadcast partners that we can find.”

He also highlighted the ben-

efits of introducing American production methodology into a European system, which he used on the production of The Bureau for Canal+.

“For The Bureau, we created a writing room because we deliver a season of 10 episodes every

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most Famous), who plays Kyle Barnes — a young man plagued by demonic possession who has hidden himself away from those he loves for fear of causing them harm, said: “Television has the ability to tell these larger stories.

To take such great source material and explore it over a length of time is really exciting to me.”

Sharon Tal Yguado, head of the newly launched FIS and executive vice-president, global scripted entertainment for Fox International Channels, said she had approached Kirkman between seasons one and two of The Walking Dead to ask whether he had another passion project up his sleeve. “He thought for a minute and then told a very relatable human story about a guy trying to save his family while battling against evil forces,” she said. “I just knew he was going to do it again.”

Outcast was developed for the international market in-house

by FIS and then sold to US premium cable network Cinemax, which will premiere it in 2016.

It will be launched day-and-date globally on Fox.

year and that was very novel in France. We try and import the best of both worlds – mixing US methods and European talent.”

Also on the panel was Sammy Nourmand, chief operating officer of Israel’s Keshet, which has a UK production base and has launched its European Drama Initiative.

“Keshet in the UK owes its beginnings to drama,” he said. “We launched off the back of Prisoners Of War and Homeland.

“The European Drama Initiative works on two fronts. One is that we are prepared to fund dramas early at development stage and the second is — obviously with deficit funding at the latter end of the production — we think drama’s got more global appeal than ever before.

“Whereas five or 10 years ago the natural partnership was a UK-US co-production, we don’t think that’s the case anymore.”

NEWS Audiences being carried away to places we can only guess at

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U DI ENCES of t h e f ut u r e w i l l consume content by “d ist r ibut ion methods we havent even contemplated yet”, Andrew

Moss, chief commercial officer at media strategy consultancy Oliver & Ohlbaum, told delegates at MIPCOM. Speaking at the Carriage Deals: Map Of Opportunities conference

session, Moss said that the “signficant rise of on-demand” and continued disruption of the traditional carriage model have presented the whole industry with a challenge in predicting

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future trends.

He sa id: “ T here’s a big opportunity now for us to accurately predict the future and the right content strategy.

It’s complicated, especially as the further through the development cycle you go the more competition there is for content.”

He said there were “still significant opportunities for channel operators”, particularly in emerging markets, such as the BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa], but that the new models of distribution are increasingly taking hold in all markets globally.

He added: “What we are really looking at here is an ever more intricate world of carriage and consumer behaviour. It really depends on where you are in the development cycle, but the opportunities for channels are clearly many, even in a developed, fast-paced world; but there are challenges as well.

Channels are developing multiple diffierent strategies to cope.

“I think we’ll see more multichannel collaborations and partnerships.”

Consumers stream to new platforms CONSUMERS worldwide are watching more TV in more ways, concludes a new report by Ericsson ConsumerLab, TV And Media 2015: The Empowerd TV And Media Consumer’s Influence.

Stella Medlicott, Ericsson’s chief marketing officer of broadcast and media services, said 50% of those questioned said they streamed on-demand video content at least once a day, compared to 30% in 2010.

Speaking during the panel Satisfying The TV Audiences Of Tomorrow: The ConsumerLab Findings, Medlicott also said people spend an estimated six hours a week watching streamed TV shows and movies on-demand. In 2011, they spent only 2.9 hours a week.

Although cord-cutting is growing, more viewers are paying for OTT services and 87% of subscription video-on-demand users say they binge view once a week.

Meanwhile, 8% of those interviewed said they spend more than three hours daily watching YouTube, compared with 3% in 2011. And there is a 71% jump in the number that watched videos on their smartphones from 2012.

But Medlicott warned: “There’s a frustration among audiences who are having difficulty finding the content they want to watch. The existing recommendation engines are not smart nor personal enough to do the job.”

Nick North, the BBC’s director of audiences, said that although budget cuts are forcing the UK

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public broadcaster to shut down its BBC3 network next year, “its new home will be online, with some of the shows available on other TV channels”.

Susanna Dinnage, executive vice-president and managing director at Discovery Networks UK and Ireland, reminded the audience not to forget the strength of free-to-air networks in reaching audiences: “We have a traditional pay-TV model at the heart of our business,” she said.

And Sam Toles, vice-president, global content acquisitions and business development at videosharing website Vimeo, said his company has observed a 300%plus year-on-year increase in the number of transactional [paidfor] sales on Vimeo.

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EADING broadcasters and producers gathered at the Esterel on Monday to unveil strategies for spotting and acquiring iconic brands that will make high-end drama resonate with global audiences.

Foremost among these strategies is the need to get authors on board from the outset.

Carmi Zlotnik, managing director of US producer/distributor Starz, spoke of the benefits of ensuring the involvement of author Diana Gabaldon in Starz’s adaption of Gabaldon’s Outlander series of novels. The Outlander books already had a core of “superfans”, said Zlotnik, and Gabaldon’s involvement in the adaptation galvanised interest in the TV series.

“We would run our casting choices past Diana and she would message out to the fanbase her en-

dorsement, which innoculated us against the rejection if it wasn’t exactly the person. And there’s been less and less of ‘Who should play Claire and who should play Jamie?’. When Diana tweets ‘This is my Claire’, the fan base really falls in line. And she has a real handle on that.”

Superfans have also been a key factor in the production of FremantleMedia North America’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s blockbuster fantasy novel American Gods, which was greenlit by Starz in June 2015.

“The fans are evangelicals and they really go out and talk about the book with such passion,” said Craig Cegielski, co-CEO of FremantleMedia North America.

“And when we announced we had acquired the rights to the book, people came out of the woodwork to raise their hands to adapt it. One of the people that

we talked a lot about, who is a magical thinker, was Bryan Fuller. We sent an email to his agent and a reply came back within 30 minutes saying ‘Yeah’.

“He is a superfan and had a copy in his backpack at the time. We then brought Michael Green, another accomplished showrunner, so it was a real dream team.

We handed it over to Carmi and asked him to buy into this vision.”

Attendees at the panel were treated to an exclusive preview of Capital, a three-part adaptation of John Lanchester’s novel, starring Toby Jones. Unlike Outlander and American Gods, Capital does not come with an enormous fanbase, said Diederick Santer, co-CEO of Kudos, the UK production company that has Capital on its slate.

“So our starting point isn’t ‘Yes, take the fans with us and hope it

New routes for undiscovered content “CONTENT is wasted on television,” Molotov’s Jean-Marc Denoual told The New Disrupters panel session.

His point was that so much great programming passes by undiscovered. Molotov’s OTT aggregation platform is a “gentle

Spotify’s Matt Baxter (left), Molotov’s Jean-Marc Denoual and Victorious’ Tony Zameczkowski debate the issues on The New Disrupters panel session

disruption” of the TV industry, as session moderator Catherine Warren of FanTrust Entertainment Strategies put it. “We don’t want to disrupt the TV industry, we want to disrupt the way content is distributed,” Denoual added.

Panelist Matt Baxter had recently left BuzzFeed to become Spotify’s first global head of original content. Original content was a novelty to the service’s millions of dedicated users, so in that sense he was disrupting the disruptor. “This is a big bet for the company,” he said.

“But across the entire company they realise that original content creates a better value proposition for our users.”

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crosses over’. Our starting point is ‘Find the best versions’.

“With Capital, that book was just about coming out when Derek Wax, one of our exec producers read it, loved it and similarly made a great creative and commercial offer to John Lanchester.

And that was a bidding war situation. A number of UK production companies were up for that one but Derek made a very good creative case and we won it.”

sources to craft podcasts and videos that can enhance the user experience, and is experimenting with formats to find what is suitable for the platform.

Tony Zameczkowski, of Victorious in the US said the company had been founded to allow digital creators more opportunities to engage with fans and make money. The app gave them an environment they could “own” and opportunities for micropayments on things like emojis and stickers — a proven business model in the Far East.

“It’s hard as a creator to have your entire business model on one platform like YouTube.

You need to find other business models and avenues,” he said.

“At Victorious creators control their monetisation. They can integrate advertising and it’s more relevant to the mobile experience.”

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O M E N ’s special ten a c it y i s i mp or t a nt when you carry out new business. Women do not give up even when they initially fail,” said Yukiko Kimishima, divisional president for international business development at Nippon TV, commenting on the role of female executives in the Japanese television industry.

Sayumi Horie, senior producer at NHK’s global content development division, is involved in up to 30 documentary co-productions a year and stresses the importance of communication in projects: “I think women do well in that role,” she added.

Horie’s latest releases include Wild Japan with the BBC, which was shot in 4K, and Beneath The Mushroom Cloud with Nilaya

Productions/France 5, which was made to mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.

“We are looking for a new partner in Asia because we want to increase entertainment content originating from Asia,” she

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by NHK in cooperation with TVBS Taiwan.

Links are also growing with digital distributors, such as Curiositystream, she said. “Good relationships, which women are good at, can smooth out different approaches so we can find a common way of working.”

Nippon TV is also targeting Asia, according to Kimishima, with the aim of becoming the number-one media company in the region. “We set up a joint company, GEM, for broadcasting East Asian content, including our own, in Hong Kong and South East Asian Countries.

Broadcasting has begun with now TV (Hong Kong), TrueVisions (Thailand), MyRepublic, Matrix TV, Nexmedia, Skynindo, Transvision (all in Indonesia), and Phnom Penh Municipal Cable TV (PPCTV).

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“In fact it’s the exact opposite of the sort of shows that Lifetime used to be known for, because it’s dark and edgy, and the women are flawed,” Zimmer said. “But the audience loved it and we’ll be back in Vancouver in March next year making the second series. We had to wait that long because the winters there are pretty extreme and the show is set in LA.” Both actors have been busy since shooting on the 279_GoAsean_N3_COM

first series at the end of 2014. “I was in five episodes of Code Black.” Appleby said. “And even though having a second series of UnREAL is a lovely guarantee of work next year, actors these days tend to be much more willing to get involved in writing, directing and producing. You can be so much more entrepreneurial because the TV industry creates so much peripheral work these days, and of course that means that it’s more important then ever to keep your industry relationships.

It’s no longer enough to depend on your agent or manager.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF KIK A, the German children’s channel owned by ARD and ZDF, has acquired broadcast rights to The Avatars, an international co-production by Boomerang TV Group, Fly Distribuzione TV and Brave Films. The deal covers free-to-air TV rights and comes after recent sales in Central European territories including Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The series — about a bunch of 15 year-olds who want to become rock stars but who are ignored by record labels due to their age — was shot in English and is targeting the international audience with a cast that includes Tyler Young, Gabi Carruba and singer Lucia Gil.

R AINBOW, Italy’s family entertainment specialist, has acquired Canadian animation studio Bardel. Rainbow, one of Europe’s largest animation studios with shows in more than 150 countries including Winx Club, Mia and new action-comedy Regal Academy, sees the deals as an important part of its strategy to grow its position in the global entertainment industry.

JOIZ GLOBAL, the Switzerland-headquartered social TV service provider, has licensed its proprietary technology to Netherlands-based international broadcaster TV Entertainment Reality Network (TERN). TERN will use the technology to offer and monetise interactive content on its new Ultra HD multiplatform factual entertainment TV channel Insight in 60 million homes in India and Europe.

HBO Latin America’s Originals to travel the world with Telemundo

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ELEMUNDO Internacional has inked an agreement to become the exclusive distributor of HBO Latin America Originals in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Oceania as of January 2016.

“The alliance grows the Telemundo Internacional portfolio, while also confirming the positioning of the company worldwide,” Marcos Santana, president of Telemundo Internacional, said. “Our goal has always been to expand through the sale of the very highest quality products and through unique formats inspired by real life, and this agreement with HBO Latin America validates that effort.”

The agreement strengthens the partnership that began in June 2014, when HBO Latin America Group (HBO LAG) was appointed as the exclusive affiliate sales representative for the Telemundo Internacional channel throughout most of Latin America. “This agreement represents another step in our collaboration,” said Emilio Rubio, CEO of HBO Latin America. “Our products perfectly complement each other and we are convinced that Telemundo Internacional is an ideal partner

Emilio Rubio of HBO Latin America (left), Luis Peraza of HBO Networks, Marcos Santana, of Telemundo Internacional and Roberto Rios of HBO Latin America

to represent our catalogue, built through more than 10 years of producing premium content under the label HBO Latin America Originals.”

Telemundo Internacional will be representing the catalogue of fiction and documentary series for HBO Latin America in the assigned territories, starting with El Hipnotizador, Magnifica 70, El Negocio and Psi – series that, until the new agreement, have only been available on the HBO channel.

Brazil’s Glaz on path to global growth BRAZILIAN TV and film production company Glaz and animation studio Copa Studio announced their merger this week at MIPCOM. The new group, which will be named Glaz, has also received a seven-figure investment from Investimage 1, a fund that operates under Brazil’s incentive system Funcine.

The merged company has several kids’ series on air on Cartoon Network in Latin America including: Haunted Tales, distributed internationally by 9 Story; Jorel’s Brother, Cartoon Network’s first original series in Brazil; and Trunk Train, distributed by Cake. Backed by robust financing and the expertise of the two companies, Glaz expects to grow 150% by 2017 as well as to establish itself as an important global producer of TV animation series.

Commenting on the deal, Glaz CEO Mayra Lucas said: “We are thrilled with the merg-

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er and the financing, which will allow us to become an animation series production world player, and to strengthen our film and TV live-action business units in Brazil.”

In terms of other genres, Glaz’s TV unit creates, produces and finances fiction shows, documentaries and factual. The company recently wrapped the shooting of the second season of The Intern, a 26-episode series commissioned by Warner Channel and aired on the pay-TV channel as well as on local open TV network TV Brasil. Argentina’s Magma Cine co-produced.

Brazil’s indie TV production sector is in good shape at present, thanks to regulations introduced over the past years that have established quotas for local programming on the country’s pay-TV channels. Against this backdrop, Glaz’s senior executives are seeking international partnerships at MIPCOM.

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NGLISH actor James Purefoy (The Following) stars in Hap And Leonard (6 x 60 mins), the new darkly comic Southern noir story based on the grit lit series of books and short stories from American author Joe Lansdale. The series is distributed worldwide by Entertainment One. Purefoy plays Hap Collins, a white, blue-collar East Texan who spent time in federal prison for refusing to be drafted and serve in the Vietnam War. Now in his 40s, he’s working in rose fields with his lifelong best friend, an Afro-American, exmarine homosexual with anger issues played by Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire).

“A tip-off about a trunk of money in the back of a car, sunk in an alligator-infested river is our chance of liberation,” Purefoy said. “The wonderfully drawn, empathetic characters and firstrate writing have attracted an unbelievably good cast to this show.

“I also really like the fact my

character is a gentleman; there is way too much machismo in typical male roles and I don’t think that is helpful in the global conversation on sexual equality. I like Hap’s vulnerability, his ability to show fear — that is relatable.

“The main challenge we faced was the humidity of the southern US and the bugs!” Purefoy added. “I’m an Englishman from the West Country who likes a soft drizzle and a field of cows. We were shooting in dilapidated buildings keeping an eye out for venomous brown recluse spiders, whilst bodyguarded by a man with a rifle on the lookout for attacking reptiles!”

John Morayniss, CEO, Entertainment One Television, said: “There is tremendous interest from buyers internationally and we are delighted with the response to this highly anticipated drama series.”

Produced by AMC Studios for SundanceTV, Hap And Leonard will premiere in early 2016.

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FORMAT RIGHTS SWAP FOR UK’S ITVS GE AND KOREA’S CJ E&M BRITISH entertainment giant ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) and South Korea’s CJ E&M have formed a deal that will see the two companies exchange format rights and develop new ones together.

CJ E&M is adapting two ITVS GE formats: The Secret Life Of Students, a factual format that follows the participants’ real-life digital lives; and Come Date With Me, which adds the classic dating show element to the global hit format Come Dine With Me. Simultaneously, ITVS GE has snapped up From Start To Clear, CJ E&M’s longest running entertainment show in which a celebrity host and his guests play a computer game, each episode only ending when they finish playing. One show is known to have lasted 80 hours.

Also in the deal is ITVS GE’s licensing of CJ E&M’s game show The Genius Game.

Maria Kyriacou, ITVS GE’s managing director, said: “This agreement will give us the chance to extend our formats into each other’s markets.”

Lee Deok Jae, CEO of CJ E&M’s media division, added: “It is an opportunity for us to exchange fresh ideas and present them to new audiences in our respective regions.”

ESHET International is launching an international production hub in partnership with Telefe Argentina for its explosive game show Boom!. The hub will be available for all licensees of the format worldwide.

Telefe’s local version launched on September 30 and became the slot leader across Argentina with 32.9% average share.

International productions will be able to use the same studio and crew, and need only supply a cast and showrunner.

It follows a recent announcement by the companies that they are working together to develop entertainment formats for global distribution. Telefe’s version of Keshet’s Rising Star (Elegidos) is now in its second season and averaging a 34% share.

Boom! delivers intellectual and physical challenges, and audiences can play along via an app, neutralising their own bombs in the knowledge that one mistake and everything will go boom!

Keshet International’s Boom!

The stripped Spanish version of Boom! launched over a year ago and continues to perform well. It has also aired successfully in Hungary (TV2), Kazakhstan (Channel Seven), Chile (TVN), Uruguay (Canal 10, finished Spanish version) and the US (Fox).

Most recently, it launched in France, bringing TF1 its best numbers in the 19.00 slot since last summer. Cambodian and Peruvian versions are in the pipeline.

The Sniffer leads Film.UA to NHK deal UKRAINE-based Film.UA Group has announced a format deal with Japanese TV channel NHK for drama series The Sniffer.

This agreement represents NHK’s first acquisition of a foreign scripted drama series and an exciting step for Film.UA into the international market.

“We are all celebrating this landmark deal both for us and for the whole Ukrainian TV industry,” said Victor Mirsky, general producer, Film.UA Group. “Our original series has been acquired by over 60 territories worldwide since its release and was the most rated series both in Ukraine and Russia.”

The original version of the series premiered in Japan in late July on AXN Mystery, featuring the detective protagonist who has a phenomenal sense of smell. French TV channel TF1 also optioned The Sniffer in 2014 and the first episode of the second season aired on Russia’s Channel One on Monday.

“The series resonates with audiences worldwide because of the universal storylines and the eccentric main character,” Kateryna Vyshnevska, head of development and co-productions, Film.UA Group, said.

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“Our production values are high and foreign buyers are experiencing a revelation about our market — only recently our TV miniseries Inseparable was a two-times nominee for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program alongside Game Of Thrones at the Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards.

“It has taken intensive work over the years to open the doors to international co-productions but, with shifting attitudes, we are now creating new work with such collaborations in mind.”

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NEWS KABO MAKES THE MOST OF HOSTS KABO INTERNATIONAL has acquired international distribution rights to the entertainment format Best Host Ever, also known as Le Grand Tralala, from Paris-based production house R&G Productions.

The deal will see Kabo International relaunch the format. Featuring famous and popular hosts in France as well as major international stars including Jennifer Lopez, the show aired with amazing ratings when it first launched on France 2 in 2000. The series was also produced under license in Spain. The format features presenters who are asked to host a studio show without knowing the content or being given any direction on how to proceed. “This is a unique primetime entertainment format which is already generating great interest from format buyers at MIPCOM,” Arabelle Pouliot-Di Crescenzo, managing director, Kabo International, said.

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by France 2 following a major deal between FremantleMedia International (FMI) and France Televisions.

FMI has also recently sold the show to ABC (Australia), NPO (Netherlands), Hot (Israel), DR (Denmark) and RUV (Iceland) after acquiring the rights earlier this year.

Jamie Lynn, executive vicepresident, sales and distribution, EMEA, said: “No Offence pushes the boundaries on so many different levels, yet its compelling storytelling and characters you genuinely care about make it addictive viewing. We’re already getting huge interest with international buyers, so I’m really excited that France Televisions has come on board to bring No Offence to the widest possible audience in France.”

FMI has also closed deals for the inspirational new cooking show Simply Nigella and Nigella’s

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Christmas Special. Prime (New Zealand), Foxtel (Australia), TV2 (Norway) and Discovery Networks (Asia-Pacific) have all acquired the series.

“We’re incredibly excited that Simply Nigella has had this much

THE PARAS: Making The Cut from Forces TV, a recently launched company specialising in military documentaries and programming, has been sold by TCB Media Rights. The eight-part series following new recruits to the British elite Parachute Regiment, has been acquired by Discovery’s Quest TV. Forces TV was set up by British Forces Broadcasting Service, and enjoys a unique relationship with the UK’s armed forces. Pictured celebrating the MIPCOM deal are: TCB’s Kate Llewelyn-Jones (left), Forces TV’s Debbie Barrett, and Simon Downing of Quest TV/Discovery.

CINEFLIX RIGHTS GETS KILLER CONFESSIONS CINEFLIX Rights has extended its partnership with US producer LMNO Entertainment Group with a new three-year deal signed at MIPCOM. The agreement sees the British distributor taking worldwide exclusive rights for over 1,000 episodes of LMNO’s library, as well as new programming including Killer Confessions (4 x 60 mins), which is due to premiere on Investigation Discovery US. The series features actual police interrogation videos and dramatic reconstructions to reveal how officers piece together evidence before seeking a confession.

impact with buyers,” Angela Neillis, FMI director of non-scripted for UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific, said.

“The deals reflect the high quality of this feel-good series and Nigella’s enduring ability to resonate with audiences worldwide.”

All3media takes UK hits to Europe UK INDEPENDENT distributor all3media International has announced drama deals across Europe at MIPCOM, including thriller The Missing to ZDF in Germany and 130 hours of Hollyoaks to Latvia’s Lattelecom.

The Missing stars James Nesbitt and Frances O’Connor as parents of a missing boy, with Tcheky Karyo as the French detective leading the case. The deal also includes series 17 (4 x 120 mins) and series 18 (4 x 120 mins) of long-running detective drama Midsomer Murders.

Steve Macallister, CEO, all3media International (left); Susanne Mueller, executive director feature films, ZDF Enterprises; Peter Grant, senior vice-president international sales, all3media International; Eva Reifferscheid, director acquisitions, feature films and series, ZDF Enterprises; Volker Lehmann, vice-president acquisitions and co-productions, ZDF Enterprises

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OR EA N producer/ broadcaster EBS and Chinese media giant Shanghai Media Group have unveiled a groundbreaking co-production deal at MIPCOM. In their first-ever partnership, EBS and SMG are producing a UHD documentary about the ancient mysteries surrounding the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the man credited with unifying China more than 2,000 years ago.

The project is supported by the 2015 UHD contents project of the Korean ministry of science, ICT and future planning (MSIP).

Shanghai Oookong Business Limited is also participating in the budget, which is expected to top $2m.

Peter Lee, director, global business and international relations,

Korea Radio Promotion Association’s Ki-Hoon Gwak (left), SMG’s Ming Chuan Gu Jin, MSIP’s Kim Myeonghye and EBS’ Peter Lee

EBS, said that the high-end documentary is being created with the global market in mind. He is confident that the project can extend the co-operation between Korea and China that has already been seen in the drama and entertainment genres.

SMG manager Ming Chuan Gu Jin said he hoped that this project would be the first of many similar ventures between the two partners.

A final decision on who will handle the international distribution of the show is yet to be made.

A MIPCOM delegate is greeted by a surprise marriage proposal during yesterday’s show, as part of a promotion by Turkish distributor Global Agency. The company sent two brides and two grooms to Cannes to surprise attendees by approaching them with a ring and asking them to marry them, as it unveiled a reality format in which seven men and seven women spend 20 weeks together in a house in search of the perfect marriage partner. The show, I Wanna Marry You, launched on Kanal D in Turkey this week.

France 24 deal with Seoul’s Chosun FRANCE 24, the French satellite news network, and South Korean entertainment cable channel TV Chosun have signed a long-run-

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ning deal that coincides with the 130th anniversary next year of the two countries opening diplomatic relations.

The agreement, announced at MIPCOM, will see France 24 provide Seoul-based TV Chosun, the sister company of leading Korean national newspaper The Chosun Ilbo (The Chosun Daily), with up-to-the-minute news clips, starting early next year. In return, TV Chosun will support and market France 24 in South Korea.

“We are pleased to work closely

with France 24 and look forward to developing positive impact among the online news media through strong co-operation with France’s leading news network,” said Chung Oh Bang, executive vice-president of TV Chosun’s media business and programming division, who signed the deal with Eric Cremer, vice-president, distribution, of France 24.

The new partnership also commemorates the bilateral exchange of culture year between the two countries, which started in September.

EARTHTV MAKES ROBOT TELEVISION A REALITY BERLIN-based earthTV has launched a production system at MIPCOM called Robotic TV Show Generator, a software system that enables broadcasters and producers to create new shows for all platforms by repackaging existing content in a simple, effective and automated way.

Swiss broadcaster SRF signed an agreement with earthTV and will be the first broadcaster to take advantage of this TV-show generator to create short programming using existing sports and music content.

The software can also be adapted to other genres, such as entertainment programming, both scripted and non-scripted.

“The technology fits our purposes excellently, especially our short-term need for fillers which derives from a large amount of live programming in all time slots,” Stefano Semeria, head of TV programming at SRF, said.

Claudius Lohmann, managing director of earthTV, added: “The Robotic TV Show Generator offers greater scope to provide more targeted content. Numerous scheduling gaps can be filled with this content in the future and will enable broadcasters to considerably enrich their schedules with up-to-the-second images delivered instantaneously via earthTV Cloud.”

Claudius Lohmann of earthTV (left) and Stefano Semeria of SRF

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Chair Matt Heiman

Chris Forrester, Journalist & Industry Consultant, UK

Moderator Berk Uziyel

Jacob Zachariah, General Manager, APAC and Middle East, Victorious, Singapore Virginie Maire

The Best of 4K 14.00-17.00 | Sony 4K Ultra HD Theatre

MIPCancun: Passion for TV Programming in Latin America 11.30-12.15 | Matchmaking Lounge

The Best of 4K Ultra HD in a continuous screening session, with a stunning ‘sizzle reel’ compilation of the best footage screened at MIPCOM this week. Just turn-up, sit down and be amazed at how good television can be.

Speakers Ted Baracos, Director of Market Development, Reed MIDEM, France Raquel-Catherine Duenas, Consultant, Dueñas-Brkovic Media Management, USA Bénédicte Touchard, Director of the Buyers’ Department, Reed MIDEM, France

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Social Responsibility - Media’s Role in Creating and Provoking Global Change

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YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND PHOTOGRAPHER, FILM DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT, GOODPLANET FOUNDATION, FRANCE YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND

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ANTHONY GEFFEN, CEO AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, ATLANTIC PRODUCTIONS, UK ANTHONY GEFFEN

NATALIE HUMPHREYS, CONTROLLER, FACTUAL & DAYTIME PRODUCTION, BBC TELEVISION, BBC, UK NATALIE HUMPHREYS

RAPHAEL GOUMAIN DEPUTY COUNTRY MARKETING MANAGER FRANCE AND HEAD OF CULTURAL INSTITUTE MARKETING, GOOGLE, FRANCE

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Eric Berger, EVP Digital Networks, Sony Pictures Television and GM, Crackle, USA Ambuj Goyal, CEO, Magine TV, Sweden John Penney, Chief Strategy Officer, Starz, USA @GoodPenney Tom Ryan, CEO and Co-Founder, Pluto TV, USA Hans Van Rijn, VP, Digital Media & Business Development, Discovery Networks International, Denmark Filmon Zerai, COO & Managing Director, Maxdome, Germany

Marlene Edmunds, Chief Executive/Founder, Marlene Edmunds Media Consulting, France @gumsockjourno

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12.15-13.00 | Grand Auditorium

Presenting the World Screen Content Trendsetter Award

Speakers Katie Keenan, Head of Acquisitions, Channel 5 and VIMN UK, Viacom International Media Networks, UK

PERSONALITIES OF THE YEAR KEYNOTES 14.30-15.15 | Grand Auditorium

GARY NEWMAN & DANA WALDEN CO-CHAIRMEN / CEOs, FOX TELEVISION GROUP Moderator Anna Carugati, Group Editorial Director, World Screen, USA

Jakob Mejlhede, EVP MTG Programming & Content Development, MTG, UK Jason Simms, SVP, Global Acquisitions, Fox International Channels, UK Christian Wikander, Head of Drama, Sveriges Television, Sweden

Moderator Anna Carugati, Group Editorial Director, World Screen, USA

Fresh TV Fiction 13.15-14.00 | Grand Auditorium In partnership with Screen the latest in fiction programming in this exclusive MIPCOM screening, where Virginia Mouseler presents fresh drama from around the world.

Presenter Virginia Mouseler, CEO, The Wit, Switzerland

MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTES 15.45-16.15 | Grand Auditorium

16.30-17.00 | Grand Auditorium

NATE HAYDEN VP, AOL’S ORIGINALS AND BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT, AOL

NICOLA MENDELSOHN VICE PRESIDENT EMEA, FACEBOOK Interviewed by

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NEWS SPANISH SALES FOR NEW MOUSE TALES SPAIN’s TVE has acquired the first and second seasons of Geronimo Stilton, and has prebought the rights to the third season The New Adventures Of Geronimo Stilton (26 x 22 mins) from Atlantyca Entertainment.

This marks Atlantyca’s first deal with TVE and was followed by Catalan’s TV3’s renewal of the first two seasons in addition to pre-buying the new series.

“This is a significant deal for us as Geronimo Stilton has a huge loyal book fanbase throughout Spain,” Pedro Citaristi, sales manager, Atlantyca Entertainment, said.

TF1 INTERNATIONAL SIGNS BARBAPAPA BARBAPAPA will be joining TF1 Licenses and TF1 International after a deal was struck with the family of the show’s creator Talus Taylor. The legendary kids show was launched in 1970 and remains hugely popular today among two- to 10-year-olds. In France, where the series plays on TF1’s TFOU kids’ block, it pulls an impressive 49% audience share in the four- to 10-year-old demographic.

“We are immensely proud to welcome Barbapapa to our roster,” Sabine Chemaly, commercial director at TF1 International said. “It’s an iconic show that has been hugely loved by every generation of kids for the last 45 years and we’re really looking forward to working closely with TF1 Licenses in order to reinforce and develop the brand.”

Knockout roster from MGM stars Rocky’s big comeback

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E T RO - G OL D W Y N - M AY E R (MGM) International Television Distribution brings a prolific new-release feature slate to MIPCOM, including Creed — a re-boot of the Rocky franchise — and the latest James Bond movie, Spectre.

“I’ve seen Creed and it’s absolutely unbelievable — it has real heart,” Christopher Ottinger, president, international TV distribution & acquisitions, said.

“I think this will restart the franchise in a way that audiences won’t expect. I believe Sylvester Stallone could get nominated for an Academy Award for his performance.”

Creed explores a new chapter in the Rocky story as Adonis Johnson, son of world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed heads to Philadel-

phia to track down Rocky Balboa and ask him to be his trainer.

“Much of our slate is sold in output deals with our partners but we still have some exciting deals in progress,” Ottinger said.

“MGM is back — we are not remotely the company we were six or seven years ago. Our deal with Mark Burnett last year that has given us access to United Artists Media Group assets including funny format America’s Next Weatherman (8 x 60 mins) and factual series Answered Prayers (6 x 60 mins) has given us a phenomenal pipeline of product and we are continuing to push further into the unscripted space.”

MGM’s other theatrical highlights include How To Be Single, Ben-Hur, Me Before You and The Magnificent Seven.

MGM’s Christopher Ottinger

CYRIL Chauquet, presenter of new Beyond International show Chasing Monsters, is a man on a mission. “The series is about seeking out the biggest and most dangerous underwater creatures in the most remote corners of the planet,” he said. “In one episode I got pulled in to the water by a monster sailfish, at which point my main concern was not being impaled on its spike.” Chauquet also comes face to face with the ferocious alligator gar, sharks and a huge catfish.

Carrig unveils boost for Broad Focus PLANS to expand Broad Focus — A+E Networks/Lifetime’s initiative to support and develop female writers, producers and directors — were set out at yesterday’s Women In Global Entertainment Power Lunch by Danielle Carrig, Lifetime’s senior vice-president of communications and public affairs.

The initiative, first launched in the US in April, will now be expanded to Lifestyle’s international chan-

nels. “I’m extremely proud that we are rolling out Broad Focus globally to increase our impact and help identify bold female storytellers around the world,” said Nancy Dubec, president and CEO of A+E Networks.

Amanda Hill, A+E Networks’ chief creative officer, international, pointed to the broadcaster’s 122% growth in global audiences over the past three years. “It’s imperative that we use the power of our

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reach as a media brand to break down the barriers of entry for talented women storytellers,” she added.

The statistics show that those barriers remain firmly in place. In the US last year, only 7% of feature films were directed by women. By contrast, 20% of Lifetime’s movie directors, 43% of its writers, 35% of its executive producers and 29% of its producers were women, far exceeding the industry averages.

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RENCH photographer/cinematographer and president of the GoodPlanet Foundation, Yann ArthusBertrand, has spent the last month at a series of launch events for Human, a collection of stories about and images of the world, offering full immersion in what it means to be human.

The film is intended to bring us face to face with another side of life, to make us reflect on our own place on the planet, something that it seems has had a profound effect on the younger members of the film’s growing audience.

“As we roll out the film through a series of special screenings, events and through Google, I’ve been hugely touched by the reactions that audiences have had,” Arthus-Bertrand said. “People seem to sense that it’s attempting to reflect what it really means to be alive, and consequently there have been a lot of emotional reactions, perhaps more so than people expected before they saw it.”

The project is a true multiplatform effort with a 190-minute, full-length cinematic version, a 130-minute version for TV, On The Trail Of Human (3 x 52 mins), The Stories Of Human (1 x 80 mins), a 52-minute Making Of called The Human Adventure, a Behind The Scenes, Human: The Music (1 x 52 mins), and three web films.

Since its launch in September, Human has had over eight million YouTube views, a further 20 million on Facebook, and the hashtag #WhatMakesUsHuman has been used 8,000 times on Twitter.

“We were very focused on making the film as widely available as possible, and I’m delighted and gratified that the viewing figures from social-media platforms have been amazing,” he added. “My biggest hope is that the film enriches the lives of the people who see it. In terms of the project itself, it has been so long in the making and was such a massive undertaking that I think I’ll probably spend the rest of my life promoting it. I don’t see myself undertaking anything like this again.”

The film, which was funded by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and the GoodPlanet Foundation, with Google and France2 as media partners, is available to distributors at a low rate.

Arthus-Bertrand is appearing in Auditorium A tomorrow at 10.45 at the Social Responsibility session about the media’s role in creating and provoking global change.

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NEWS Mezzo Live HD strand to make Australian debut on Foxtel Arts

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AGARDERE Active and Lightning International have closed a deal to bring a daily four-hour branded block called Mezzo Live HD to the newlylaunched Foxtel Arts channel in Australia, offering classical music, opera, ballet and jazz.

It marks the first agreement for Mezzo Live HD in Australia, which already has partnerships in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Gerald-Brice Viret, CEO, Lagardere Active TV, said: “We are pleased to bring Mezzo Live HD to another major pay-TV provider in Asia-Pacific and confident it will help drive growth and viewership for Foxtel Arts.”

According to Stephen Baldwin, Foxtel’s head of channels and operations, the addition of Mezzo Live HD “will provide Foxtel Arts subscribers with access to performances from European concert halls and festival stages, thus strengthening the content

Lagardere’s Sabrina Azouni (left), Foxtel’s Stephen Baldwin, Lagardere’s GeraldBrice Viret and Lightning International’s James Ross

offering on the channel.”

James Ross, CEO of Lightning International, the Asia-Pacific representative for Mezzo Live HD added: “We have had a fantastic response to the rollout of Mezzo Live HD in the region

from our partners and operators, and we welcome Foxtel as the latest affiliate — with more to come soon!” The channel plans additional localised content in 2015 with new partnerships in the works in Australia.

Detectives take lead in Rai’s roster RAI COM, the commercial arm of Italian public broadcaster Rai, is in Cannes with a broad range of drama, documentary and animation. Highlights include a new

Rai Com’s Mattia Oddone

season of detective series Young Montalbano, which has been sold this week to the BBC, RLJ (UK video rights), Hi Gloss (Australia and New Zealand video) and NEP (Japanese pay-TV rights).

Head of cinema and TV international sales Mattia Oddone said the diversity of the slate showed that Rai Com was more sensitive to what the market was asking for. “We have more titles that can work well on international platforms and broadcasters around the world,” he said.

In crime, there are new episodes of Inspector Montalbano, the original show that inspired Young Montalbano. There is also a third season of Inspector Coliandro (The Comeback, 6 x 100 mins) while Close Murders

introduces a female crime fighter, Valeria Ferro of the Turin homicide squad, in her battle against domestic and community-based violence. There is also a female protagonist in The Good Apprentice, about a young doctor who gets drawn into crime investigations in Rome.

The makeover in Rai’s crime drama is also reflected in its social dramas, said Oddone. “We have dramas that deal with the refugee crisis in a very topical and powerful way. Lampedusa explores the tragedy of the crisis in the Mediterranean through the eyes of the captain of a coastguard ship. And Border is a lightly-fictionalised, almost documentary, story of two Syrian sisters forced to flee their home by the civil war.”

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MORE DEALS FOR STASI SPY SAGA FREMANTLEMEDIA International’s (FMI) spy thriller Deutschland 83 (8 x 60 mins) has been sold to Channel One (Russia), Sky Italia (Italy), Hulu (US), SundanceTV (Englishspeaking Canada), Super Ecran (French-speaking Canada), RTE (Eire), Stan (Australia and New Zealand), Telenet (Belgium), RTL Klub (Hungary), Hotvision (Israel), TV4 (Scandinavia) and Kino Lorber (US — DVD and iTunes).

These latest deals take to 20 the number of broadcasters and SVOD services to have acquired the suspense-laden drama.

Set against the cultural and political turmoil of 1980s Germany, Deutschland 83 has “become the must-have European drama series of the year”, said Jens Richter, CEO of FremantleMedia International.

He added: “Having attracted critical acclaim in the US and now the attention of this impressive list of buyers, the compelling series is set to captivate viewers around the world.”

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HE MINISTRY of Internal Affairs and Communications’ (MIC) director for global promotion of broadcasting programmes, Ibata Kozo, is at MIPCOM for the first time to rally together all the Japanese exhibitors.

“Our ministry is responsible for the overseas deployment of Japanese broadcasting and this year we want to support local programming in particular,” Kozo said.

“Half of Japanese local cities are in danger of disappearing due to the decrease in population and we are trying to maintain these areas by boosting local economies.”

Kozo said he wants to attract tourists to Japan’s little-known locations — and exporting special-interest programmes produced by local broadcasters and cable operators to international buyers is one way he believes this is achievable.

While Kozo is supportive of the first Japan Regional Pavilion this year, he still believes that there is room to expand. He proposed a national umbrella stand for both broadcasters and cable operators to exhibit together at MIPCOM. “There is a strength in numbers,” Kozo said. “It would make a great impact and really feature Japanese programming at large. There are over 40,000 cable operators in Japan; I appreciate the presence of the Japan Cable And Telecommunications Association (JCTA) at MIPCOM, but we can further highlight the diverse content on our community channels.”

Kozo highlighted the launch of TVer in October, a free catch-up streaming video service created

by Nippon Television Network, TV Asahi, TBS TV, TV Tokyo and Fuji Television to extend their programming reach online and hopes that this network of broadcasters continues to expand.

MIC’s Ibata Kozo: “strength in numbers”

Fuji Television Network takes tailor-made approach to TV Fuji TV’s So Fujinuma: “evolving our business model”

THE format business in China is becoming much more competitive, so producers get an advantage if they can get their show on air fast,” said So Fujinuma, director of worldwide production and sales, international department for Fuji Television Network (Fuji TV) at MIPCOM this week.

“As a format distributor, we are evolving our business model to help them. Instead of just licensing the format to another producer, we now offer a more tailor-made approach, helping to produce the show to get it to market more quickly and without jeopardising quality.”

He added: “We still license our formats for others to produce in their local markets. For example, Iron Chef is still selling internationally after 10 years and this year launches in Cambodia.

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“And we now have a third option too. For a format like Papa’s Kitchen, where clearing rights for use in other territories is complex and expensive, we re-shoot local versions on our sets in our own studios,” Fujinuma said.

“This enables us to keep the distinctively Japanese elements which are popular overseas, but making it in the language of the territory it’s for.”

New formats from Fuji TV include Modern Art Vs. Rough Amateur Art (5 x 30 mins) in which studio guests try to guess the progeny of a piece of art, and Desperate Last Resort (1 x 120 mins) where a group of female contestants with financial or personality problems fight for survival — and a cash prize — using fair means or foul.

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NEWS DORI MEDIA STRIKES A CHORD WITH AUDIO NETWORK AUDIO Network has struck a bespoke content partnership deal with Dori Media Group in a publishing arrangement that will exploit the group’s existing catalogue of music, and allow them access to Audio Network’s 100,000-track catalogue for all their content, across all platforms, globally.

The partnership with Dori Media Group, who have companies in Israel, Switzerland, Argentina and the US, marks a new phase of strategic expansion for Audio Network under recently appointed CEO Chris Blakeston, with further deals and partnerships to be announced in the coming months.

“We’re thrilled to expand into Israel with this new partnership, and friendship, with Dori Media. The diversity of their content and the breadth of our music make for a perfect creative fit,” Lina Tebbs, head of television, Europe, Audio Network, said.

“We’re continually growing and investing in new music so that we can build more relationships with partners like Dori around the world.”

Novovision creates platform to share video and revenue

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RENCH producer Novovision is launching a new social media videosharing platform at MIPCOM. Users will be able to upload and share videos to the site — which has a particular emphasis on the style of amusing videos that already go viral online — and earn money through a unique revenuesharing offer. Videos will be gathered and shown via themes changing from week to week, including new film releases and seasonal celebrations.

Novovision head of new media Jordane Richter said: “The main goal is for us to reach new markets in North America, Australia and China. Right now the main producers of video content are ordinary people with smartphones. We are gathering this content in a huge library; we want to give something back to people by sharing the revenue from the videos.”

Leo Perez (left), Francois-Xavier Poirier and Jordane Richter of Novovision

Novovision has hired a new chief operating officer to lead its business development and international sales ahead of the platform launch. Leo Perez has joined the company from LAbased First Mover Media, the consultancy he founded, and he and chief executive Francois-

Xavier Poirier, are in Cannes to showcase the company’s video content and new online platform.

Commenting on his appointment at Novovision, Perez said: “It’s a great company with tremendous growth potential and the potential to take its digital platform globally”.

RAFE OLLER (left), Sunita Uchil. Tim Krubsack and Sharmeen D’Souza are attending MIPCOM from the new Z Living channel offices in Los Angeles. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) handles global distribution for the entire Z Living catalogue of over 1,700 hours of acquired and original programming including food, travel, health and lifestyle, and the team is highlighting a catalogue of health and lifestyle programmes from Z Living produced in the US. “We also have formats to showcase; primary among them being our dance reality programme Dance India Dance,” Sunita Uchil, global head of syndication, ZEEL, said. “We are open to discussions on co-productions as the channel is going through a re-launch with three new shows in development in the US.”

Shutterstock clicks with Red Bull

Audio Network’s Lina Tebbs

RED BULL has chosen Shutterstock as the exclusive distributor of its extensive video archive.

It means Shutterstock customers will have access to large amounts of aerial, time-lapse, slow-motion, adventure, wildlife and landscape footage, including HD and 4K video clips, all under a royalty-free licence.

In addition to the distribution

partnership, the companies have agreed a co-marketing initiative. This will highlight dynamic POV footage shot by some of Red Bull’s extreme athletes, taking the viewer on a trip through some of the world’s toughest environments. The videos will be captured with state-of-the-art cameras and will be distributed via the two companies’ sites.

“Red Bull Media House is world renowned for its storytelling and high-quality content,” said Aditi Gokhale, Shutterstock’s chief marketing officer. “We are excited to offer this unique collection of footage under a simple licence to enhance the visual storytelling for marketers, producers and creative professionals around the world.”

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High-profile keynote panel looks at War And Peace from all angles

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LL OF you readers who have weighty books next to your bed — classic literature that you keep putting off reading: you can take War And Peace off the pile.

“It’s a bit difficult to get into at the beginning, but you’ll be grateful to me because I’ve sorted it out for you,” Andrew Davies, celebrated scriptwriter, said. “None of you need bother reading it!”

He was talking at the War And Peace keynote yesterday, and the sneak peek footage of the production bore out his words.

The spectacular adaptation with a stellar cast is a co-production between BBC Wales (home of Doctor Who and Sherlock), Lookout Point (Ripper Street, Parade’s End, Titanic) and the famed Weinstein Company.

Davies’ version emphasises the mischievous, funny and youthful aspects of the book.

“Sometimes translations of Tolstoy are heavy handed, but the first thing I noticed with Andrew’s adaptation was how light and easy it is,” said Stephen Rea, who plays Prince Vassily Kuragin.

British actor Tuppence Middleton plays Helene Kuragina, his daughter. “I think you enjoy it for its richness, all the stories of the families and how different the war and peace sections are,” she said.

“Helene’s usually the villainess in other adaptations, but I really liked her,” Davies added.

After the creative talent left the stage, the discussion turned to production matters.

“Surprisingly, it was a passion project for Harvey [Weinstein],” The Weinstein Company’s Negeen Yazdi, said. “He claims he read it when he was 12 years old, and that kind of precocious behaviour sounds about right for him.”

All partners talked warmly about the frank and collaborative na-

ture of the co-production, which was greatly aided by a big BBC Worldwide budget commitment at a very early stage. That allowed them to forge on with the creative work. “We knew we wanted to

shoot in Russia, and we knew we wanted a single director,” BBC Wales’ Faith Penhale said. “If you take big decisions early on, certain things get simpler.”

Simon Vaughan of Lookout Point hailed Penhale’s influence. “Coproduction is about the leadership: Faith was the boss and we followed her,” he said. “Sometimes it’s difficult but when a call had to get made, it got made. If you don’t have leadership, run a mile.”

Andrew Davies: sorting out War And Peace

Faith Penhale: taking big decisions early on

Tuppence Middleton: “enjoy it for its richness”

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MIPCOM signing brings TBS Sasuke format to Middle East

T Dr Scott Miller, The Vet On The Hill (Fred Media)

BUYERS GO WILD FOR FRED’S NEW VET SET FRED Media, the Australian distributor, has announced deals for two animal shows in Europe. Vet On The Hill is going to More4 in the UK, and The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner to DMAX in Italy.

Vet On The Hill (10 x 60 mins, from WTFN Entertainment) follows Aussie vet Dr Scott Miller in his practice in Richmond upon Thames in the UK, and features animals including Mable the rescue puppy and George the depressed donkey.

“WTFN Entertainment is expert in delivering strong and appealing stories and Vet On The Hill is no exception. We predict it will be our next big international hit,” said Fred Media general manager, Michael Aldrich.

The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner, meanwhile, follows Faulkner in his career as an exotic animal specialist.

Wrestling a saltwater crocodile, wrangling a deadly king brown snake or milking a funnel-web spider to make anti-venom are all in a morning’s work.

Series one, two and three are going to Italy, and deals are also confirmed for Animal Planet UK, Nine Network Australia and Animal Planet India.

OKYO Broadcasting System Television (TBS) has signed a multi-territory deal at MIPCOM for its hit assault-course game show format Sasuke/Ninja Warrior with His Royal Highness Prince Faisal Bin Bandar Bin Sultan Al Saud, chairman of Banader Gulf Company, Saudi Arabia.

Banader Gulf Company has the exclusive right to use TBS’ format in 17 Arabic-speaking territories, including Ninja Warrior, American Ninja Warrior and other programmes in the Sasuke family. The company will also be producing a local version based on the format.

“We are delighted and honoured that Prince Faisal is a huge fan of our programme and that he came to Japan to show his sincerity and interest to produce the show in the Middle East,” said Masashi Nakao, media business division president, TBS. The Prince’s mission to Japan last

May resulted in a signed memorandum of understanding.

“This show originated in Japan in 1997 and has grown globally ever since,” said Makito Sugiyama, TBS chief vice-president, global business.

“The show has broadcast in over 160 countries and has been produced locally in nine territories outside Japan — most recently American Ninja Warrior has been a big primetime summer hit on NBC. “It is a true family show. We hold the worldwide rights to all format local versions so our growing Ninja Warrior catalogue now contains over 250 hours of programming.

The show is especially uplifting as it makes audiences want to train — to get healthy and fit; this is a positive outcome in the face of declining activity levels becoming a worldwide issue,” Sugiyama said.

TBS is distributing the format

TBS’ Masashi Nakao

Sasuke/Ninja Warrior in collaboration with New York-based Bellon Entertainment and Dentsu/Aegis Network for sales in Europe.

It’s an animated fairy with attitude DQ ENTERTAINMENT and Method Animation will produce CGI series 5 & IT, an adaption of the much loved book, Five Children And It, by E Nesbit. The project is co-produced with Disney Channel Germany and supported

by Noga, Israel. Disney Channel France has pre-acquired the show.

“The new series will fit perfectly in the Disney Channel line-up for

a young audience and is in line with Disney’s rich heritage of creative storytelling,” said Ralf Gerhardt, executive programming director Disney Channels, The Walt Disney Company, GSA. “The main-character, Psammead, steals the show as a sand fairy with attitude, and we are certain that audiences will love him.”

A third season of The Jungle

Sumedha Saraogi of DQ Entertainment (left), Aton Soumache of Method Animation, Ralf Gerhardt of The Walt Disney Company GSA, Caterina Gonelli of Disney France, Dominique Neudecker of Disney Germany, Tapaas Chakravarti of DQ Entertainment and Cedric Pilot of Method Animation

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Book is also being produced by DQ Entertainment and Ellipsanime, France, supported and co-produced by ZDFE, Germany, ZDFTV, Germany and PIWI (Canal+), France.

The Jungle Book season three continues to receive strong support from Tele-Quebec, Canada and other season two broadcast partners.

“It was an easy decision to continue with The Jungle Book. The first two seasons are working so well for ZDF and KiKA that we were basically obliged to go on.” said Nicole Keeb, head of international co-and acquisitions for children’s and youth programming at ZDF. Tapaas Chakravarti, chairman and CEO, DQE, added: “Jungle Book has done well across the world and has become one of the favourite shows of kids aged four to eight.”

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Feature films and animation are key focus for Malaysia

M Jeem TV launches Bader: Legend Of The Pearls at MIPCOM

AL JAZEERA’S JEEM INTRODUCES BADER TO THE WORLD AL JAZEERA-owned kids TV channel Jeem TV has unveiled a new action adventure series at MIPCOM, with the first season in production and a further season already in the pipeline.

Jeem TV has laid out ambitious plans for the series which, it says, has “lots of potential for the international markets”.

The show, Bader: Legend Of The Pearls, which will be available in Arabic and English, is scheduled for completion next summer. The first season is 26 x 11-mins.

It covers the story of a young boy, Bader, who gains superpowers through the pearls he dives for in the sea near his hometown of Dana.

Bader fights his nemesis Hamash, who also uses the pearls to gain powers.

The show was previewed at a special event at MIPCOM yesterday, where Jeem TV channel director and acting executive general manager Saad Saleh Al Hudaifi, speaking to MIPCOM News, said that it had “great potential for international audiences, in the Middle East and in Europe”.

Jeem TV is a part of the wider Al Jazeera Media Network, based in Qatar.

ALAYSIAN deputy minister of communications and multimedia, Dato’ Jailing Johari, has announced major initiatives to boost the country’s creative industries, with a focus on animation and features.

First is the Kr8tif Express newswire app. “The newswire is a platform to keep players abreast of all that’s happening in the industry.

These are fast-moving industries and with a focus on new technologies, we need to have something to update all our partners,” he said.

He also announced a new one-stop creative hub called the Content Malaysia Pitching Centre, which will be led by the national film development body, FINAS, with an initial $25m grant from the government.

“We’ve established our reputation in animation and if we focus on it, we hope that we can become a South Asian regional hub. We have the strength and with MDEC [the

Dato’ Jailing Johari

Multimedia Development Corporation] we have the finance,” Johari said, He also mentioned new infrastructure in the form of the new Pinewood Iskandar 20-hectare studio complex, and incentives, including 100% tax breaks and 30% cash rebates on filming.

In addition, five co-production deals involving Malaysian and international companies for animated

TV series were announced at the event. These are between Lil Critter Workshop and Grafizix (Korea); Funcel and Samarkand (Turkey); Frogtale Studio and Cartoon Robot (Turkey); Giggle Garage and Funny Flux Entertainment (Korea); and Animasia and Zodiak Kids France.

Animasia also announced this week that it has licensed its 26 x 22 mins series ABC Monsters to US distributor NCircle Entertainment.

Arab Telemedia parks the bus in Cannes ARAB Telemedia has a high-profile presence at MIPCOM, in the form of a luxury double-decker bus parked outside the entrance to the Palais. The decision to use the bus reflects the company’s desire to make the most of being at MIPCOM 2015.

“We needed to find a way to attract more people to our products and to get the most out of the convention,” Talal Adnan Al Awamleh, CEO and executive producer of Arab Telemedia Group, said.

“Yes, we have meetings with people in a pre-set schedule, but this gives us more exposure to create curiosity, to get people in and talk to them more and more.”

Al Awamleh said the look of the bus has provided a significant impact in generating spontaneous, unscheduled meetings. He said the company, whose slogan

Talal Adnan Al Awamleh, CEO and executive producer of Arab Telemedia Group

is “Stories from Arabia”, has two main objectives at MIPCOM — to go international with its shortform historical costume dramas, and to also speak with Arab TV companies.

“The Arab TV conventions are not as well organised as MIP-

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NEWS LIONSGATE TAKES SKYDANCE CONTENT ACROSS THE WORLD LIONSGATE has formed a global TV distribution partnership with Skydance Media, the company behind Emmy-nominated series Grace And Frankie and critically-acclaimed drama Manhattan. It will see the creation of new label Skydance International, which will distribute Skydance’s properties around the world following their initial US broadcast.

“We’re thrilled to expand our partnership with Skydance Media,” said Lionsgate president of worldwide television & digital distribution Jim Packer. “Skydance is synonymous with big, bold, quality entertainment events. We’re excited to partner with them on all forms of global distribution, from the traditional to the disruptive, and we’ll focus on innovative deals that reflect today’s dynamic TV ecosystem.”

Skydance Media founder and chief executive officer David Ellison added: “We’ve worked hard to create premium, branded content that will resonate with audiences worldwide, and this new partnership with Lionsgate will accelerate our ability to distribute our shows far and wide across platforms and around the globe.”

The pact will encompass existing programming as well as new properties that Skydance is developing.

These include Lore, executive-produced by McG (Supernatural) and written by Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class), and Madness Of Angels, inspired by Kate Griffin’s six-book fantasy series.

Anger management led to social responsibility for Obaid Chinoy

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AKISTANI documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, who is speaking at today’s Social Responsibility keynote, credits her parents with pushing her into a career that has culminated in an Oscar — the first for a Pakistani — an Emmy and a place on Time’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

“When I was a teen, I used to rant a lot,” she said. “My mother suggested I put my anger to good use and write.”

Chinoy started contributing stories to a local newspaper, tackling controversial issues that were soon unsettling the traditional Muslim world in which she lived. After an incident involving graffiti on the family home, her father told her: “If you speak the truth, I will stand with you and so will the world.”

“That was a defining moment for me,” she said.

Chinoy’s move from words to images was prompted by 9/11, when she was studying print journalism in the US. “Reading about the Twin Towers doesn’t have anything like the impact of actually seeing them come down. I realised I wanted to do

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: “giving a voice to the maginalised”

something visual,” she said.

Chinoy is at MIPCOM to seek global distribution for her two latest projects: documentary feature Song Of Lahore, about a band of Pakistani jazz musicians that “shows what happens to a country if you neglect its music and culture”; and animated kids’ feature Three Braves, about three heroic Pakistani children who save their community from an

evil villain. Chinoy’s work has resulted in death threats but she persists in her quest to “give a voice to the marginalised”.

“I was raised in a very different Pakistan to the one my daughters are experiencing now. I could ride my bike around town, wear skirts and go to the market without worrying about bombs — I want my girls to be able to live like that.”

Walter welcomes foreign-language drama WALTER Presents, a new ondemand foreign-language drama service from Channel 4 UK and Global Series Network (GSN), has acquired five series from Germany-based distributor ZDF Enterprises. The deal totals 44 hours of television content for the service, which launches in January 2016.

Titles included are 10-part Belgian black-comedy drama Clan, which follows the exploits of four frustrated sisters as they plot to kill their obnoxious brother-in-law, and 10-part

Swedish political thriller Blue Eyes. Also in the mix are: eightpart crime drama The Team, which broadcast on DR in Denmark; six-part Polish crime thriller The Pack; and Swedish family saga Thicker Than Water, which is in production on a second series.

More international content for Walter Presents is coming from French distributor TF1 International, which is offering four series totalling 40 hours of content. They include celebrated director Luc Besson’s action

thriller series No Limit.

The nascent VOD platform has also secured 27 hours of French content, including thriller Match Day and crime series Lanester, from Paris-based Film & Picture TV Distribution.

Meanwhile, Walter Presents has acquired 20 hours of Dutch-language shows from Ne t h e rl a n d s - b a s e d D ut ch Features Global Entertainment.

Wa lter P resent s is b ei ng launched first in the UK. C4 and GSN then plan to roll it out into a number of other TV markets.

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NEWS The curtain goes up on MIPDrama Screenings

MIPCancun expands to reflect LatAm’s buoyant marketplace

Laurine Garaude: “A surge in production of high quality-drama”

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EED MIDEM has announced that it is to l a u n ch M I PD r a m a Screenings, a pre-MIPTV drama showcase that will give international buyers an exclusive first-look at what’s hot in the global scripted-TV marketplace. The event, designed to meet the growing demand for high-end drama series, will be held on Sunday, April 3, 2016, just ahead of next year’s MIPTV. According to Reed MIDEM, 250 leading acquisition executives from around the world will be invited to take part in a day dedicated to global scripted entertainment, featuring exclusive previews of the hottest new dramas being launched at MIPTV. An opening conference session will explore the state of the drama industry, highlighting breakout drama successes from major territories over the past six months, and providing an overview of the most successful imports in major territories.

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MIPDrama Screenings will then host screenings of curated fresh content from major territories, the day being broken down into European Screenings (UK, France, Germany, Nordics, etc), and screenings from other major drama-producing territories. In addition, there will be networking events to enable buyers to meet the distributors and producers whose programmes are on show.

“This new initiative is in response to the growing need expressed by our clients to discover new content before the main MIPTV market begins. This need goes hand-in-hand with the boom in creativity that has led to a surge in production of highquality drama from so many different territories,” said Laurine Garaude, director of Reed MIDEM’s television division.

MIPCANCUN, the MIP event for Latin America, is adding a world-class conference programme, new networking events and a World Premiere TV Screening for buyers to its core one-on-one buyers/distributors summit, which has doubled in size for the second edition, held November 18-20.

Registration has now opened for t he new con ference programme, titled Passion For TV Content, held in partnership with ProMexico.

The conference will take an indepth look at producing within and for the Latin American m a rket. Subje ct s to b e discussed include how LatAm and Hispanic companies are re-aligning their strategies to meet new audience demands, programming approaches to attract pan-regional and local audiences, project development and production best practices, leg islat ion cover i ng t he region’s media sector and how

to produce content that attracts digital natives.

Among the confirmed speakers are Discovery Networks Latin America’s Enrique Martinez, Fox International Channels’ Jorge Stamadianos, Jorge Granier Phelps, executive producer of Golden Globenominated Jane The Virgin, Dori Media’s Nadav Palti and Gersh Agency’s Roy Ashton.

Commenting on year two of the LatAm Buyers Summit, MIPCancun director Ted Baracos said: “Demand to take part in the face-to-face sales meetings has been excellent and these are now sold out.

In addition to these deal meetings, we wanted to open up MIPCancun to a wider industry audience, particularly LatAm programme producers who we are now encouraging to register for the event. The conference programme is designed to fastforward their understanding of the global Latin American TV sector and grow their business. During the various networking opportunities, they will also have unique access, in a unique setting, to the main companies op e r a t i ng i n L a t i n America.”

Find out more about M I P C a ncu n at t h is morning’s Passion For TV Programming In Latin America session in the Matchma k ing Lounge.

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Director of Publications Paul Zilk Director of Communication Mike Williams EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Sub Editors Neil Churchman, Neil Crossley, Sarah Kovandzich Reporters Ben Cooper, Andy Fry, Emelia Jones, Juliana Koranteng, Max Leonard, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Hannah Stephens, Joanna Stephens, Nigel Wilmott Editorial Management Boutique Editions Technical Editor in Chief Herve Traisnel Deputy Technical Editor in Chief Frederic Beauseigneur Graphic Designers Gaelle Daireaux, Veronique Duthille, Carole Peres Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Medias Photographers Christian Alminana, Olivier Houeix, Michel Johner, Yohann Mortier.

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