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  • Havas gets a CX glow-up with Enverta Digital acquisition

    Havas gets a CX glow-up with Enverta Digital acquisition

    MUMBAI: Havas is flexing its customer experience (CX) muscle in North America with the acquisition of Toronto-based Enverta Digital, a boutique CRM and digital transformation outfit known for its tech-savvy mojo and smooth client integration model.

    With operations across Canada and Poland, Enverta brings a potent mix of Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft, and Braze expertise to the table—making it the perfect fit for Havas’ converged strategy, which blends creativity and tech to craft personalised, data-led brand journeys.

    ““I’m delighted to welcome Jacob and the entire Enverta Digital team into the Havas family. This addition represents a meaningful step forward in our ongoing mission to  redefine and elevate customer experience. By placing CX at the core of our Converged strategy, this move underscores our unwavering commitment to innovation and strengthens our ability to lead in the CX space with transformative, tech-enabled solutions that are fully integrated across our service offerings,” shared Havas CEO & chairman Yannick Bolloré.

    The move sees Enverta absorbed into Havas CX Canada, adding serious firepower to the agency’s North America operations—particularly its growing US client base. Enverta’s offshore setup in Poland will also give Havas added scale and cost efficiencies, with its recurring revenue model sweetening the deal.

    Havas CX Canada president Alex Chepovetsky summed it up neatly: “With Enverta’s CRM game and our creative chops, we’re now better placed than ever to deliver end-to-end brand experiences that move the needle.”

    “Our focus on CRM and digital enablement aligns seamlessly with Havas’ commitment to delivering holistic, customer-centric solutions. This partnership will allow us to combine Havas’ global resources and creative expertise with our strengths to deliver a full service digital offering, centered on driving highly-personalised consumer experiences across all touchpoints and channels,” shared Enverta Digital founder & CEO Jacob Ciesielski.

    It’s a win-win deal wrapped in customer-first thinking—just the way modern marketing likes it.

  • Zee TV enters Poland, strengthens position in Central Europe

    MUMBAI: With an aim to grow operations by expanding into new markets, leading Indian content company, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) today announced its foray into Poland.

    The company has appointed Pawel Kolasa as the country manager – Poland, and he will report to Zee Network Europe CEO Neeraj Dhingra. The channel will also shortly launch a specially customised version of Zee.One, its dedicated Bollywood film and entertainment channel for the Polish audience.

    ZEEL CEO – international broadcast business Amit Goenka said, “In the past few years, we have focused our efforts on expanding and strengthening our position internationally. With a wide range of television channels, on-line platforms and film productions, we now reach more than one billion viewers across five continents. After the successful launch of Zee.One in Germany last year, we want to further strengthen our presence in Central Europe and Poland is the market with the highest potential in this region.”

    ZEE Network Europe CEO Neeraj Dhingra said, “We are the first Indian media and entertainment conglomerate to enter Poland. We are confident that our entry into this market will play a key role in the development of our business in this part of Europe, giving a new dimension to our company’s expansion keeping in line with our motto of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – The World is My Family’.”

    “With over 22 years of experience in the television industry, we are confident that Paweł Kolasa would add significant value to our organization through his extensive experience in developing strategic partnerships with key operators of digital platforms and cable networks as well as in B2B marketing. For the past seven years he has managed, created and implemented a distribution strategy for NBCUniversal, achieving success in a highly competitive market. We are pleased to welcome Pawel to the ZEE family and we wish him many successes,” Neeraj further added.

    Kolasa said, “I am extremely excited to be a part of ZEE and lead the organization’s growth in this region. We plan to bring the best of Bollywood to viewers in Poland. Going forward, we will also be looking at creating local Polish productions.”

    Zee.One, a film and entertainment channel, promises to bring top-quality Bollywood content, specially customized for Polish audiences. The channel will feature high-budget movies and series: action films, thrillers, comedies and musicals. The programming line-up will also include lifestyle programs inspired by the rich Indian culture, dedicated to popular topics such as culinary, travel or yoga.

    The channel’s schedule, adapted to the local market, will be created by the Polish team. The channel will launch in Poland later this year.

  • MIPCOM: Ultra Media brings in exclusive titles & new offering

    MIPCOM: Ultra Media brings in exclusive titles & new offering

    MUMBAI: Ultra has announced its participation at MIPCOM which is scheduled from 17 – 20 October 2016 at Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. Along with its exhaustive slate of titles spread across films, television, animation & film preservation services, It will also present its latest exclusive production in Cookery and Docudramas. MIPCOM has grown as a potential market for Ultra since the past few years because of its rising demand for Indian content. Indian TV Dramas have made its way into several countries like Poland, Ukraine, Bosnia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia Vietnam, Nigeria, Tanzania and many other territories.

    Ultra Media & Entertainment has been participating in MIPCOM since 2012 and it has always been a prominent market for the company. There has been a huge demand from the visitors for Indian films & television dramas. In fact Ultra had foreseen this trend and had every year been bringing varied titles and content for the discerning visitors in the festival.

    This year to participate in MIPCOM, Ultra is exclusively introducing “Ultra Cookery” and “Rusted Postbox”- a series of docudramas from www.mintageworld.com – World’s 1st online museum for Vintage coins, Stamps and Currency notes.

    Ultra Cookery

    A series of cookery videos that feature healthy, delicious and easy to cook multi-cuisine recipes. The recipes shown in “Ultra Cookery” are quick to make and are a blend of innovative and novel techniques that are easy to follow and can be tried by anyone in their kitchen. This program is primarily recommended for the working folks who share a passion for cooking.

    Rusted Postbox

    It is a unique concept by mintage world, launched with a social motive to create awareness amongst the general public on the various coins, stamps and currency notes that have been launched to celebrate and commemorate significant global historic events and personalities. It is a series of docudramas that talk about the evolution of various coins, stamps & currency notes from around the world explaining its historical & cultural significance. Here “each stamp, coin and note tells a story” that is narrated in an easy, lucid story telling format with an effective voice over. Till date, there have been 25 episodes.

    Ultra pioneered content acquisition & distribution of various media rights of Indian & international television drama, films, animation & other content in various genres & languages from different production companies worldwide. It is also a fully integrated, multi-faceted studio engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including full-scale television & film production and distribution and post production service.

  • MIPCOM: Ultra Media brings in exclusive titles & new offering

    MIPCOM: Ultra Media brings in exclusive titles & new offering

    MUMBAI: Ultra has announced its participation at MIPCOM which is scheduled from 17 – 20 October 2016 at Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. Along with its exhaustive slate of titles spread across films, television, animation & film preservation services, It will also present its latest exclusive production in Cookery and Docudramas. MIPCOM has grown as a potential market for Ultra since the past few years because of its rising demand for Indian content. Indian TV Dramas have made its way into several countries like Poland, Ukraine, Bosnia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia Vietnam, Nigeria, Tanzania and many other territories.

    Ultra Media & Entertainment has been participating in MIPCOM since 2012 and it has always been a prominent market for the company. There has been a huge demand from the visitors for Indian films & television dramas. In fact Ultra had foreseen this trend and had every year been bringing varied titles and content for the discerning visitors in the festival.

    This year to participate in MIPCOM, Ultra is exclusively introducing “Ultra Cookery” and “Rusted Postbox”- a series of docudramas from www.mintageworld.com – World’s 1st online museum for Vintage coins, Stamps and Currency notes.

    Ultra Cookery

    A series of cookery videos that feature healthy, delicious and easy to cook multi-cuisine recipes. The recipes shown in “Ultra Cookery” are quick to make and are a blend of innovative and novel techniques that are easy to follow and can be tried by anyone in their kitchen. This program is primarily recommended for the working folks who share a passion for cooking.

    Rusted Postbox

    It is a unique concept by mintage world, launched with a social motive to create awareness amongst the general public on the various coins, stamps and currency notes that have been launched to celebrate and commemorate significant global historic events and personalities. It is a series of docudramas that talk about the evolution of various coins, stamps & currency notes from around the world explaining its historical & cultural significance. Here “each stamp, coin and note tells a story” that is narrated in an easy, lucid story telling format with an effective voice over. Till date, there have been 25 episodes.

    Ultra pioneered content acquisition & distribution of various media rights of Indian & international television drama, films, animation & other content in various genres & languages from different production companies worldwide. It is also a fully integrated, multi-faceted studio engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including full-scale television & film production and distribution and post production service.

  • Yash Raj Films to premiere ‘Mardaani’ in Poland

    Yash Raj Films to premiere ‘Mardaani’ in Poland

    MUMBAI: Yash Raj Films will be the first Indian studio to have a Red Carpet premiere of Mardaani in Poland. The premier will be graced by the movie’s lead actress Rani Mukerji.

     

    The premiere event will take place on 28 January, 2015 at the art house cinema Kino Cinema Muranow in Warsaw. Mukerji will be joined by the film’s Polish DoP Artur Zurawski at the premiere.

     

    The film will release in Poland on 30 January, 2015 with Polish subtitles.

     

    Directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Aditya Chopra, the film released worldwide on 22 August, 2014.

     

  • Caleb Deschanel to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Camerimage

    Caleb Deschanel to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Camerimage

    NEW DELHI: Five-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel will receive the coveted ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at this year’s Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.

     

    The Festival is being held from 15 to 22 November in Poland.

     

    The legendary cinematographer and film/TV director will also screen his films at the event followed by a Q&A with the audience at the 22nd edition of the popular Festival.

     

    With over four decades of experience in the industry, Deschanel has been nominated for five Academy Awards for acclaimed features like Philip Kaufman’s ‘The Right Stuff’, Barry Levinson’s ‘The Natural’, Carroll Ballard’s ‘Fly Away Home’, Roland Emmerich’s ‘The Patriot’ and Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’. In 2010, he was awarded the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Cinematographers.

     

    Deschanel directed his first feature film ‘The Escape Artist’ in 1982, and later, ‘Crusoe’ in 1989. He has also directed episodes for various TV shows including the David Lynch series ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘Law & Order: Trial by Jury’, ‘Conviction’ and ‘Bones’

     

     Deschanel was an original member of the American Zoetrope production team, along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.

     

    The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography is the most recognised festival dedicated to the art of cinematography and is the biggest international film festival in Poland. The unconventional format of the Festival, which awards films according to their visual, aesthetic and technical values, is a unique alternative to traditional film festivals.

     

    In addition to the Main Competition, the Festival offers a Polish Films Competition, Student Etudes Competition, Documentary Films Competition, Feature Debuts Competition, Music Videos Competition, Camerimage Market, Camerimage Forum, special screenings and premieres, various reviews, retrospectives, meetings and also accompanying events such as art exhibitions and music performances.

  • Get ready for extreme action with Joel Lambert in manhunt only on Discovery Channel

    Get ready for extreme action with Joel Lambert in manhunt only on Discovery Channel

    MUMBAI: Discovery Channel is coming with its brand new series MANHUNT, featuring former Navy SEAL Joel Lambert in an extreme version of hide-and-go-seek. With this series Discovery Channel is all set to thrill its viewers as they can see Joel rescuing himself from the world’s most elite tracking team units in some treacherous terrains.

     

    The seven part series premieresevery night at 10 PM starting 19th May, only on Discovery Channel.

     

    Filmed on-location in the United States, Poland, South Africa, Philippines, Panama and South Korea, each episode of MANHUNT follows Joel as he is inserted into unknown territory with nothing but a basic survival kit and a canteen of water; he then has up to 48 hours to reach a pre-determined extraction point, while being pursued by a different tracking unit each week. Joel is given minimal supplies to survive—and anything else he needs, he must to find along the way.

     

    With cameras capturing the action from both perspectives, viewers will experience the high tension from both – Joel and the special operative teams. An expert in escape and evasion, Joel’s background has well-positioned him to prey on each unit’s hidden flaw—but evading highly specialized tracking units and combatting dehydration, hunger, and the elements proves to be a greater challenge.

     

    MANHUNT is produced for DNI by Discovery Studios. For DNI, Sarah Davies is executive producer and for Discovery Studios, Eddie Barbini and Brian Knappmiller are executive producers.

     

  • Cineworld to buy European cinema chain

    Cineworld to buy European cinema chain

    MUMBAI: England’s largest movie theater operator, Cineworld, has announced that it will be buying over 100 multiplexes across Eastern Europe and Israel for $828 million (?503 million).

     

    The purchase will be done in a mix of cash and shares, from Cinema City International (CCI), listed on the Warsaw stock market in Poland.

     

    The company will pay CCI $448 million (?272 million) in cash, and has launched a $181 million (?110 million) share rights issue to help fund the purchase. The proposed tie-up with Cinema City will give it leading positions in Poland, Israel, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Slovakia. The cash and shares deal is due to complete in March.

     

    The merged group will have 201 outlets and 1,852 screens across Europe, with the addition of 966 from Cinema City making it the second largest operator in Europe behind Odeon UCI, which has more than 2,100 screens.

     

    According to The Financial Times, Cineworld, which snapped up 21 Picturehouse sites last year, shares rose 5.87 per cent at 415p, continues a run that has pushed up the price almost 50 per cent in a year. CCI shares rose 7 per cent to 32.30 zlotys in Warsaw.

  • International filmmakers pick B/W films

    International filmmakers pick B/W films

    KOLKATA: Black-and-white movies are a rarity today, but there are some international filmmakers who have opted to make their feature film debuts with black-and-white cinema that exquisitely weaves in light and shadow effects to create magic from monochrome.

     

    Brazil’s Eduardo Nunes and Poland’s Rafael Stemplewski’s maiden productions had their Indian premiere recently as part of the ‘Shades of Black and White’ segment of the just-concluded 19th Kolkata International Film Festival. Both had to field the curiosity of audiences about the restricted palette.

     

    “Some said why not colour as it was a fairy tale. Others appreciated it. I had to make my first film and the decision was not whether it would be great to do something different in black-and-white…I just did it as I felt it would be better that way,” Stemplewski said in Kolkata.

     

    His film ‘Dendrologium’ (2013), co-directed with Amin Azam, explores the character on his journey around the world trying to discover the myth about the secret of the Sweet Fruit.

     

    On the other hand Nunes’s ‘Southwest’ (2011) revolves around the life of protagonist Clarice, which lasts for a single day. “Why not black and white…it is just a medium of expression,” Nunes said.

     

    The pull-factor towards monochrome for Stemplewski was an “artistic decision” and had nothing to do with giving it an aged look. “It created a certain kind of atmosphere and we didn’t want to disrupt this atmosphere. We always wanted to create a unique climate and black-and-white just fitted the story,” said Nunes.

     

    Moreover, Nunes felt the lack of colour creates a “distance from reality” for the audiences, thereby pulling them closer to the film’s content.

     

    Usually black-and-white is attempted by ambitious young filmmakers or veterans with enough industry pull, said a Kolkata based movie critic. “Modern black-and-white movies stand out for their classical photography and their willful connection to an earlier period of filmmaking,” he said.

     

    While reputed Polish filmmaker Joanna Kos-Krauze, who made ‘Papusza’ with husband and co-director Krzysztof Krauze, agreed. But, she also noted that for them, the lack of colour also heightened the sense of the film as a “historical fresco.”

     

    “Our film is a like a visual poem and so the blacks, whites and grays gave that impression of a different era,” Kos-Krauze said.

     

    ‘Papusza’ (2013) is a biographical piece on Romany poet Bronislawa Wajs (1908-1987), known as Papusza. She is hailed as Poland’s first gypsy poet. Kos-Krauze and her husband have chronicled Wajs’ life through century-old photographs and other images, thereby giving it a “period look”.

     

    “We used the latest (digital) technology…red epics…we used photographs almost a century old and the rest we added during post-production. There were no close-ups… that was the hardest decision.”

     

    “It did not have good distribution because some people did not want to sell a black and white film. It’s a hard decision making a black-and-white film,” she said.

     

    According to some media reports for actress Katia O’ Wallis, who has starred in the critically acclaimed black-and-white production ‘Big Hit’ directed by noted Greek filmmaker Karolos Zonaras, the “journey was enriching”.

     

    “The concentration is more on the acting in such movies,” said O’ Wallis, who is of French origin and has starred in several Greek films.

    Also Alexander Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ which released recently followed notable films this year that have opted for monochrome over color, including Noah Baumbach’s New York tale ‘Frances Ha’ and Joss Whedon’s Shakespeare-on-the-cheap “Much Ado About Nothing.”

  • DD to telecast a rare tale of Indian compassion for Europeans during World War II

    DD to telecast a rare tale of Indian compassion for Europeans during World War II

    NEW DELHI: A Little Poland in India a poignant story of around one thousand orphaned children from Poland, who found a sanctuary in India at the height of Nazi German Dictator Hitler’s atrocities in Poland, will be telecast by Doordarshan tomorrow.

     

    A Little Poland in India will be officially telecast 10 November at 3:00 pm and on11 November at 7:30 am on DD National and will there after open the inaugural ‘Kinoteka Polish Film Festval’ on18 November at India Habitat Centre.

     

    The hour-long documentary is the true and captivating story of the then Jam Saheb (Ruler) Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja of Nawanagar,nephew of famous Indian cricketer Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji of the Jadeja clan,a princely state in the Kathiawar Peninsula, off the land of Gujarat. It is the heart-warming story of an enriched historical bond between India and Poland. It is a story that represents people-to people contact in its most humane form, beyond borders and across continents.

     

    During World War II, about 1000 Polish children from war-torn, occupied Poland and Soviet prison camps in Stalin’s Siberia travelled all the way to India, where Jam Saheb took personal risks to make arrangements at a time when the world was at war and India was struggling for its Independence. He built a camp for them in a place called Balachadi beside his summer palace, 25 km from his capitalcity Jamnagar, and made them feel at home.

     

    This is the first film that has been co-produced between the governments of India and Poland under the Audio-Visual agreement between both countries. The co-producers are Doordarshan and the Gujarat Government in India, and the InA (National Audiovisual Institute) and TVP (Telewizja Polska) in Poland.

     

    Directed by Anuradha and Sumit Osmand Shaw with research by Anuradha herself, the film took the help of historian Dr. Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, Secretary General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. The Research Coordinators were Kresy-Siberia Foundation and a Balachadi survivor Wieslaw Stypula.

     

    The film contains interviews with several survivors, including two children who met in Balachadi but married 78 years later in Poland.
    The venture was supported by the Embassy of India in Warsaw, the Embassy of Poland in India, and the Polish Institute, New Delhi.