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  • 2006 International Emmy World Television Festival to be held on 18-19 November

    2006 International Emmy World Television Festival to be held on 18-19 November

    MUMBAI: The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced the line-up for its 2006 International Emmy World Television Festival, to take place on 18 and 19 November, at the Sofitel Hotel in New York.

    The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is an organisation of global broadcasters, with members from nearly 70 countries and over 400 companies. Its mission is to recognise excellence in television programming produced outside of the United States.

    A by invitation kick-off cocktail party hosted by CME founder and chairman Ronald S. Lauder, recipient of the 2006 International Emmy directorate award will launch the weekend of festivities at the Neue Galerie, on Friday 17 November. Home Box Office (HBO) will be hosting the closing cocktail on Sunday 19 November.

    This year’s Festival highlights include panels and presentations by Dubai based news network Al-Arabiya, Discop, KBS (Korea), Ile de France Film Commission, Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting as well as a technology panel entitled: ‘Producing for Cross-Media Platforms’, informs an official release.

    Phoenix Satellite Television chairman and CEO Liu Changle is the 2006 Festival Chairman.

    International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences President and CEO also President of Hearst Entertainment Bruce L. Paisner said, “The International Emmy World Television Festival is now established as the only place where you one can watch television from all over the world and meet with the program makers.It is also a unique platform for organizations wanting to promote themselves to the global television community.”

    The schedule will feature the traditional International Emmy Nominee presentations during which the producers of the nominated programs discuss their program in the nine Emmy categories including: arts programming, best performance by an actress, best performance by an actor, breaking news, children and young people, comedy, continuing news coverage, documentary, drama series, non-scripted entertainment and TV movie/mini-series.

    International Emmy Award nominees will receive their medals at the traditional Saturday morning Nominee Medal Ceremony organised each year at the festival. The Academy will also present the Sir Peter Ustinov Young Scriptwriter Award to Nemer Rashed, for his script The Great Mcginty.

    2006 festival partners include Hong Kong based Phoenix Satellite Television, Al-Arabiya, HBO, The Hollywood Reporter, Ile de France Film Commission, Microsoft, Savvis, La Demoiselle Champagne, Discop, Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, Sofitel and La Mill Coffee, adds the release.

  • Panregional players to participate in Discop 2006

    Panregional players to participate in Discop 2006

    MUMBAI: The 2006 edition of Discop to be held from 22 to 24 June expects a good attendance due to the strong recovery of the world television programming markets and the awakening of Central Europe and Eastern Europe to production projects in addition to sales of finished product.

    To be hosted at the Sofitel Atrium Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, there will be 1,300 participants from less than 400 participants four years ago.

    Discop is a programming market focused especially on Central and Eastern Europe and it is attended by small- and medium-sized buyers that do not usually go to MIPTV and Mipcom. The highlights are:
    * For the first time, there will be regional production presence, with a good number of local, regional and independent producing companies.
    * Larger buyers will attend, including some from Western Europe.
    * New players are emerging including regional distributors, new pan-regional pay TV channels and also broadcasters, from Czech Republic, Bulgaria and smaller nations.
    * Several ancillary business developers will also attend, covering home video, licensing, mobile telephony and Internet. This did not happen in the past.
    On the sellers side, there will be larger participation, too:
    * Western Europe will be more represented than earlier.
    * Latin America will be participating at full, not only with telenovelas but also offering other types of finished product and formats, cashing on the new bonanza of telenovelas and general “Latin” product in Europe.
    * The countries within the region are starting to market their own product.
    * More participants from the U.S. are expected, since NATPE purchased the show from Reed-Midem.