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  • Motion Content Group, Film Critics Guild announce latest edition of Critics’ Choice Awards

    Motion Content Group, Film Critics Guild announce latest edition of Critics’ Choice Awards

    Mumbai: Motion Content Group of GroupM, in collaboration with the Film Critics Guild announced the launch of the fourth edition of Critics’ Choice Awards to honour the talent in short films, web series, and feature films.

    After three successful editions of the Critics’ Choice Awards, Film Critics Guild and Motion Content Group in collaboration with Vistas Media Capital gear up for the fourth edition of the awards. “We are delighted to present the fourth edition of Critics’ Choice Awards which has become a very important calendar event for us and the filmmakers,” stated Vistas Media Capital CEO Abhayanand Singh. “Covid has obviously caused a lot of disruption to the film industry but the quality of content that has come out this year only validates that the spirits are high and good quality content will continue to entertain the audience.”

    This year, Critics’ Choice Awards 2022 has received an overwhelming response from short filmmakers across the country to register a record number of entries of the short films produced in 2021. The Critics’ Choice Awards jury would adjudge and applaud the best in the business and encourage Indian content creators, said the statement.

    The 2020 short film winners were Adil Hussain (Best Actor, short film “Meal”) and Amruta Subhash (Best Actress, short film “The Booth”), Shazia Iqbal (Best Director for “Bebaak”) and best short film was “Bebaak.”

    “Despite its challenges, the last two years have witnessed game-changing developments in the content arena. Especially this year, creators have pushed the envelope and crafted content that is compelling enough to draw them to theatres or make them forget the looming threat of the dreaded virus,” said Film Critics Guild chairperson Anupama Chopra.

    “As the Critics’ Choice Awards enter their fourth year, they have become coveted and celebrated by creators and talent alike as a unique and credible platform. We are proud of our partnership with the Film Critics Guild and Vistas Media Capital and are committed to making this platform bigger and better,” commented GroupM India president of trading and partnerships Ashwin Padmanabhan.

  • Vikatan Televistas & Motion Content Group set to bring new digital series

    Vikatan Televistas & Motion Content Group set to bring new digital series

    Mumbai: Vikatan Televistas in association with Motion Content Group and YouTube is all set to bring digital daily series Aadhalinaal Kaadhal Seiveer (AKS) for the audience.

    The show directed by Rajiv K Prasad with a screenplay penned by Ve Ki Amirtaraj & Joe George, is a slice-of-life drama that features the lives of six flatmates as they maneuver through the highs and lows of life to fulfill their millennial dreams.

    AKS is being launched as 120 episoder on Vikatan TV’s YouTube channel, building on the learnings of the successful run of Vallamai Tharayo, which also went on to light up the language markets of ETV Telugu and Flowers TV Malayalam, the production company said in a statement.

    “We are constantly innovating to keep our audience entertained, engaged, and informed,” said Vikatan Group MD, B Srinivasan. “Team Vikatan has always been coming up with the most interesting and entertaining ideas. From providing exclusive and innovative video content to the most happening and trending stories for the magazine, we have been giving the best of entertainment for our audience. And now, we are setting up the bar even high. For all who enjoyed Vallamai Tharayo, it’s now time for another enthralling, roller coaster ride of emotions with AKS, focussed on the inter-personal relationship between friends in a chummeryand its impact on their respective families and the society at large, AKS’s narrative will be a first of its kind in the South Indian content space.”

    “We are very excited to launch our newest show AKS in partnership with Team Vikatan,” said Motion Content Group India head Sudip Sanyal. “With this show, we are exploring the depths of relationships set in the young adult space which is vibrant, energetic, and contemporary.  The daily fiction format, which we started as an experiment is now integral to our content strategy and AKS is another step in keeping to the promise of delivering great stories, as a daily show to our digital audience.”

  • Motion Content Group reunites with Film Critics Guild to present India’s first nationwide Critics’ Choice Film Awards

    Motion Content Group reunites with Film Critics Guild to present India’s first nationwide Critics’ Choice Film Awards

    MUMBAI: Motion Content Group in collaboration with Vistas Media Capital, has partnered with The Film Critics Guild (FCG) to announce the first ever Critics' Choice Film Awards (CCFA) for the Indian cinema. The organization will be working in tandem with FCG to bring to the fore, outstanding stories from across the country on a single unbiased and inclusive platform. With this award Motion Content Group wants to recognize and applaud stories that have stood out for their exemplary performances, the stir they created with their impactful storytelling and representation.  The strategic partnership with Bookmyshow.com has made the prestigious award format a unique format for the Film Industry and for the film lovers across geographies. The finale event will be held on April 21st in Mumbai.

    Motion Content Group (MCG) is a leading global content investment and rights management company, that invests in and partners with the world’s leading talent, producers and distributors to meet the market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace. The MCG backed CCFA pursues brilliance with this first of its kind awards ceremony curated in partnership with the Film Critics Guild. The awards aim to be representative of the diversity of Indian cinema and create new benchmarks for recognizing outstanding work being produced and released by all participants in the Indian film industry.

    The Critics’ Choice Film Awards aims to honor the best of  Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati & Marathi films of 2018 . This is the only award after the National Awards which shall cover 8 major languages.

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  • GroupM launches Motion Content Group to meet demand for new economic models

    MUMBAI: GroupM, the world’s leading media investment group, today announced the launch of Motion Content Group (Motion), a new global content investment and rights management company, to meet the ever-growing market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace.

    Motion will invest and partner with the world’s leading talent, producers and distributors to fund, develop, produce and distribute premium content. It will also consolidate and diversify GroupM’s content investments and operations to-date, as well as utilize GroupM’s & WPP’s worldwide network of relationships and content expertise for scale and competitive advantage.

    Motion also supports WPP’s ongoing strategic focus and investments into content, which has seen notable strategic investments into companies such as Imagine Entertainment (24, EMPIRE), The Weinstein Company (DJANGO UNCHAINED, THE KING’S SPEECH), Media Rights Capital (HOUSE OF CARDS, 22 JUMP STREET), MediaPro (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS) and All Def Digital, Russell Simmons’ digital venture.

    Richard Foster, currently the head of GroupM Entertainment, has been appointed CEO of Motion Content Group, which will be headquartered in London and Los Angeles. Motion incorporates GroupM Entertainment’s team and resources, and the full slate of programs it has partnered to develop and produce.

    Award-winning content funded by GroupM Entertainment has been distributed into markets around the world through partnerships with over 100 leading producers and more than 20 of the world’s leading distribution companies. Motion invests its own funds into content deals and partnerships and is therefore a separate but complimentary offering to the substantial amount of branded content work undertaken by GroupM’s agencies on behalf of their clients.

    Motion’s global reach, investments and partnerships will help support the editorial ambitions and commercial requirements of producers, networks and platforms, in order to help drive contextually safe, high-quality environments for advertisers.

    “With new content companies such as Netflix and Amazon growing rapidly, the competition for premium content is heating up across the globe. WPP is investing in Motion Content Group to strengthen our content creation and distribution capabilities, to help meet evolving viewer needs, and to help advertisers continue to reach consumers in high quality content environments,” said Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP.

    Kelly Clark, GroupM CEO, said, “We have always used our global scale and reach to find innovative approaches that strengthen the media ecosystem for advertisers and media partners alike. Motion is a major commitment by GroupM to expand on these efforts.”

    Richard Foster, CEO, Motion Content Group said, “Our objective is to help create and support editorially and commercially vibrant premium content for the benefit of our content partners and advertisers. We will achieve this by continuing to invest into the content industry and lead the development of new models, commercial content structures and partnerships with media networks, platforms, talent, producers, and distributors.”