Nominations for the 39th International Emmy® Awards were announced today by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at a Press Conference at Mipcom. There are 40 nominees in 10 categories. The full list of Nominees follows this release. Winners will be announced at a Black-Tie Ceremony on November 21, 2011 at the Hilton New York Hotel.Nominations span a record 20 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, M...

The International Television and Cross-media Animation Festival, directed by Roberto Genovesi, registered for this edition 678 products affirming its international appeal for all the operators of the animation field. If you have not done it yet, register your free Accreditation to the Festival on our web site http://www.cartoonsbay.com/en/partecipa/ The final deadline for all the Accreditation application is March 15th 2011! Let's book your hotel in Rapallo with the advantageous fares a...

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...

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...

Arab media personality and Executive Director of the Middle East International Film Festival, Nashwa Al Ruwaini, has been invited to participate as a juror in the category of non-fiction for the 2009 International Digital Emmy® Awards (IDEA). This is the fourth year that The International Academy of Television Arts and Science host the awards which will recognize excellence in content created and designed for viewer interaction and/or delivery on a digital platform. Three Emmy® ...

Arab media personality and Executive Director of the Middle East International Film Festival, Nashwa Al Ruwaini, has been invited to participate as a juror in the category of non-fiction for the 2009 International Digital Emmy® Awards (IDEA). This is the fourth year that The International Academy of Television Arts and Science host the awards which will recognize excellence in content created and designed for viewer interaction and/or delivery on a digital platform. Three Emmy® Awards for Digi...

MIPTV featuring MILIA, the world’s audiovisual and digital content market, today announces the 25 finalists for the second edition of “Content 360,” the international competition to commission innovative, interactive content and applications for mobile and broadband. For the second year, “Content 360” is organized in partnership with the BBC, the Korean Broadcasting Commission (KBC), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and for the first time WPP’s OgilvyOne Worldwide and Yahoo! T...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

Paul Johnson, Director,TV Division, Reed MIDEMPaul Johnson has joined Reed MIDEM as Director,TV Division working with Pau Zilk.Paul replaces Rene Perez and comes from from VNU Entertainment Media, where he was European Sales and Marketing Director for The Hollywood Reporter. A 14-year veteran at The Hollywood Reporter, he was responsible for sponsorship, events and advertising at the magazine, and was the driving force behind its foreign language websites slated to launch later this year. During...

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, 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...