Portrait of the MIP TV as an international meeting
The MIP TV, which started yesterday, attracting 12,500 participants, amongst whom there are 3800 companies from 98 countries, to Cannes, proves once again it deserves its position as the first international market for digital and audiovisual material. Until Friday, buyers and sellers of TV programmes will meet in the alleys of the Palais des Festivals and negotiate to exchange all types of products, in all types of formats, from TV fiction to cinema feature, including documentaries, animation films, and documentary fiction. Today, this yearly meeting, crucial to find funding or launch international coproductions, is welcoming its traditional guest : the French Cultural Affairs Secretary, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, who is coming to get a taste of the new tendencies from the professionals.
Europe is represented by nearly 2400 productions companies, TV channels, professional organisations and institutions from all 25 members of the EU. 590 of them are British, 526 French, 268 German, 215 Spanish, 194 Italian, 152 Dutch, and 105 Belgian. A total of 164 companies are here to represent Scandinavia (54 from Denmark, 44 from Sweden, 42 from Finland, and 24 from Norway) while Ireland is bringing 33 companies, Portugal 32, and Austria 30. They are followed by Poland (27), Greece (24), Hungary (19), Luxemburg (13), Slovaquia (10), Slovenia (9), Lituania (8), Cyprus (8), Malta (5). Estonia and Lettonia come last with 4 companies each.
Amongst the best French programmes on sale, there is the €23M mini-serie Les Rois Maudits by Josée Dayan, produced by JLA for France 2 and coproduced by the Italian channel Rai, starring Jeanne Moreau, Philippe Torreton, and Gérard Depardieu. L’hiver sous la table, a 90min reel by Zabou Breiman starring Isabelle Carré and produced by La Compagnie des Indes is also worth mentioning, as well as Carmen by Jean-Pierre Limosin, starring Natacha Régnier (90 min fiction produced by Capa Drama), or the project for a mini-serie plus full-length feature, Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Volker Schlöndorf, starring Jeremy Irons and Marie Gillain (Studio International).
(Translated from French)
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