MUMBAI: We all know that content is king. The reason: it brings in the moolah whenever it is consumed. And to help and understand India?s content creators and distributors and to increase their business prospects globally, Paris-based Reed Midem has organised a three-city road show in coordination with indiantelevision.com.

Reed Midem is the company behind the world?s most successful audiovisual content markets such as MipTV, MipCom and Midem, which are represented in India by indiantelevision.com CEO Anil Wanvari.

To be organised in Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai, the road show consists of a series of interactive round table/seminars/ interactions in each of the three cities. Among the invitees figure local television and film content producers, broadcasters, animation and media tech companies. The theme of the seminars is: ?Can Indian content leave its stamp on the world?? .

?We believe it can,? says Reed Midem director market development Ted Baracos, who is flying down from Paris especially for the road shows. ?India?s content strengths have been seen in its Bollywood films and outsourcing of animation to it by many global companies. MipCom and MipTV offer very strong platforms where this potential can be exploited further because we have buyers/co-producers from more than 100 countries consistently looking to source content.?

Adds Reed Midem Asia sales manager Paul Barbaro: ?We have seen the success that several Asian countries have achieved thanks to MipCom and MipTV and would like even India?s content makers to replicate and surpass that. Whether it is Singapore or China or Korea ? each of these nations have used MipCom, MipTV as a springboard to growing their international co-production and syndication sales.?"

Wanvari believes that the time is ripening for India?s content creation and distribution industry to build partnerships, and begin understanding the pulse of audiences in other countries in order to reap more benefits from their content.

?Digitisation of India?s cable TV industry is set to unlock humungous amounts of subscription revenues for broadcaster which was bleeding out of the system,? he says. ?A large part of that money is likely go into content creation ? higher budget shows, with an international feel and look which is more than likely to find custom internationally. Singapore produced a show called the Kitchen Musical which has found buyers worldwide - including in India - and has build the island nation?s profile. Indian companies could also invest in understanding the syndication market internationally and building their global buyer network through must-attend markets such as MipTV and MipCom.?

Given below is the itinerary of Reed Midem?s ?Can Indian content leave its stamp on the world?? road show:

22 July 2013 
Hotel Hans, 15 Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi

25 July 2013 
Taj Banjara, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad

27 July 2013 
Raheja Classique Club
Andheri West
Mumbai

The road show series is an invitation only event in each of the three cities. But if you would like to know how you can monetise and are interested in being in any of the three cities, please send an email to tanuj.desai@indiantelevision.co.in or devyanib@indiantelevision.co.in.

MUMBAI: The television trade event Mipcom which is organised by Reed Midem has announced the initial line-up for the Media Mastermind conference programme to take centre-stage in the Palais des Festivals? Grand Auditorium in Cannes. The confirmed speakers are Bravo and Style Media president Frances Berwick, FremantleMedia CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh and Amazon Studios director Roy Price. Mipcom will take place in Cannes, France from 7-10 October 2013.
 
Reed Midem?s television division director Laurine Garaude said, "Television is undergoing a dramatic transformation and confirms itself as the world?s most creative medium for the world?s best storytellers. With more screens and more interaction coming into play, television and storytelling as we know it is being redefined - leading to more creative and business opportunities than ever before."

"As we enter a new golden age of television, Mipcom is delighted to welcome some of the most influential personalities of the new world of content from major film, television and online companies such as Bravo and Style Media, FremantleMedia, Relativity Media, and Amazon Studios," Garaude added.
 
"With the first speakers lined up for the Media Mastermind Keynote programme, a new Croisette Village exhibition venue to meet increasing demand for stands and companies already expressing interest in bringing in more talent than ever before, Mipcom 2013 promises to be a record-breaking edition," she concluded.

MUMBAI: DQ Entertainment (DQE) said it has signed production, distribution and licensing agreements that would generate $6 million of revenue for the Hyderabad-based animation company at the recently concluded Mipcom, the world?s leading entertainment content market.

According to DQE, the revenues will be generated over the next two years from the eight agreements which includes two production agreements and five licensing, distribution, and co-production agreements.

DQE Chairman and CEO Tapaas Chakravarti commented, "Mipcom 2012, the hugely popular TV content market, has once again proven to be very successful for DQE. We have concluded several new agreements and also generated leads for new business in the future. We are delighted with the support of our long standing partners Method Animation France, ATV Turkey and JCCTV Middle East for their continued support of our properties."

Production agreements:

1. "Raz & Benny" with Foothill - Europe DQE and Foothill Europe have agreed to develop, co-produce and distribute the animated buddy comedy, Raz & Benny with a global production budget of approximately $7 million. The agreement also covers the exploitation of the ancillary rights such as merchandising.

2. "Little Prince" season 3 with Method Animation - France DQE and Method Animation, France will co-produce the third season of the highly successful animated 3D TV series "The Little Prince" with a budget of approximately $9.1 million.

Licensing, distribution and co-production agreements:

1. Global TV, Indonesia acquired multiple properties from DQE for free TV broadcast in Indonesia. The properties include Galactick Football, The New Adventures of Lassie & Friends, Robin Hood-Mischief in Sherwood, Tara Duncan and Feluda TV series and its 60 minute TV feature.

2. JCCTV, Al Jazeera?s kids channel acquired the broadcast rights of 4 properties from DQE. JCCTV will soon start broadcasting The New Adventures of Lassie & Friends, 5 & IT, The New Adventures of Peter Pan and Charlie Chaplin across 22 Arabic nations.

3. Workpoint Entertainment Public Company, Thailand has signed a broadcast agreement for Thailand for the following DQE properties: The New Adventures of Lassie & Friends, Robin Hood-Mischief in Sherwood, Iron Man Season 2, The New Adventures of Peter Pan and Charlie Chaplin.

4. Cheers Media has acquired the Home Video distribution rights of Charlie Chaplin for Vietnam.

5. ATV Turkey has signed a co-production agreement for the 52 x 11? new 3D animated TV series Robin Hood-Mischief In Sherwood, being co-produced by DQE with Method Animation, France. ATV will have exclusive free TV, pay TV, VOD, pay per view, Web TV, IPTV, Home Video rights, merchandising, licensing and publishing rights for Turkey.

MUMBAI: PBS International has finalised its most recent deal for ?The Choice 2012? with broadcaster RT? at Mipcom in Cannes, making Ireland the latest of more than 88 countries where ?Frontline?s quadrennial U.S. presidential election special will be seen.

The Choice 2012, a definitive profile of the character of the men competing for the US presidency, is a journey into the places, people, and decisive moments of each candidate. As President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney spend hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, Frontline?s top political reporting team spent the last year gathering the rest of the story. More than 100 in-depth interviews with friends, family, authors, and journalists contribute to the most ambitious television biography of the candidates ever created.

PBS International VP Tom Koch said, ?Historically, Mipcom has helped us to generate many of our sales for The Choice. An annual venue where we can reach so many buyers at one time affords us the opportunity to introduce the series at one Mipcom and close deals through the next?.

The newly signed deal with RT? adds to the list of more than 34 broadcasters who have signed on to air ?The Choice 2012? since Mipcom 2011 including CBC, Educational Broadcasting System (EBS), Geo TV, NHK, Public Television Service (PTS), Societe Radio-Canada (SRC-RDI), Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), SVT, Televisi? de Catalunya / TV3, and TVI of Portugal.

MUMBAI: Nominations for the first International Emmy Kids Awards were announced by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Iatas) at a press conference at the television trade event Mipcom in Cannes, France. There are 24 nominees in 6 categories.

Winners will receive their Emmys at the inaugural International Emmy Kids Awards, on 8 February, 2013 in New York City.

Nominations span 13 countries including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada and France. The 2012 International Emmy competitions have three rounds of judging over a period of 6 months, with participation from jurors across 67 countries.

Iatas president, CEO Bruce L. Paisner said, "One of the great success stories of international television in the last few years has been the explosion of high quality children‘s programming around the globe. In recognition of this, the International Academy is pleased to have created these new awards and we look forward to the first International Emmy Kids Awards ceremony, in February 2013."

The nominees are:
Kids: Preschool

Cloudbread
KBS / GIMC
South Korea

El Jardin de Clarilu
The Walt Disney Company Latin America / Triada / Metrovisi?n
Argentina

Leserkorpset (The Reading Band)
NRK
Norway

Octonauts
BBC Childrens / Silvergate Media / Brown Bag Films / CBeebies
UK

Kids: Animation

The Amazing World of Gumball
Turner Broadcasting
UK

Ask Lara
Tomavistas / Televisi? de Catalunya /
Red Kite Animations / Submarine
Spain

Digimon Xros Wars - The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time
Toei Animation / TV Asahi
Japan

The Jungle Bunch
TAT productions / Master Films / Vanilla Seed
France

Kids: Factual

Christmas Special: The Dreaming Orchestra‘s 180 Days
KBS
South Korea

Coming Out
NPO / Sky High TV
The Netherlands

Mentira la Verdad (Truth Lies)
Mulata Films / Canal Encuentro
Argentina

Newsround - My Autism and Me
BBC Childrens / CBBC
UK

Kids: Non-Scripted Entertainment

Art Attack
Walt Disney Company Latin America
Brazil

Energy Survival
Fabelaktiv / Enova / NRK / Film 3
Norway

In Real Life
Apartment 11 Productions / YTV
Canada

Wittaya Subprayuth
Workpoint Entertainment / Royal Thai Army Radio and Television / Channel 5
Thailand

Kids: Series

Julie and the Phantoms
Mixer / TV Bandeirantes / Nickelodeon
Brazil

Junior High School Diaries
NHK
Japan

SLiDE
Hoodlum / Playmaker Media / Fox 8 / Foxtel
Australia

Stikk (Leave Me Alone)
Nordisk Film TV / NRK / SVT / DR / RUV
Norway

Kids: TV Movie/Mini-Series

Fairy Tales on TV
EBS
South Korea

Lost Christmas
Impact Film & Television Ltd / BBC / Hyde Park Imagenation / Ketchup Entertainment
UK

The Star Talers
S?dwestrundfunk / Bavaria Filmverleih und Produktions GmbH
Germany

The Strongest Man in Holland
NPO / NL Film & TV
The Netherlands

Mumbai: MIPCOM 2012 at Cannes saw the crossover of a couple of big names from films to television. Iconic independent film producer/distributor Harvey Weinstein and Oscar-winning writer/director Jane Campion made their debt appearance at the annual event announcing their foray into television.

Attending his first MIPCOM, Weinstein unveiled The Weinstein Company‘s plans to expand in television production and distribution with the likes of epic drama series ‘Marco Polo,‘ reality series ‘Supermarket Superstars‘ and documentary series ‘Seal Team Six.‘ And he chose MIPCOM to unveil a new initiative - the World Dance Awards - a live TV show conceived by dancing wizard Michael Flatley.

Like Weinstein, Campion is more used to attending the Cannes Film Festival. So 2012 was her debut appearance at MIPCOM to discuss her first foray into television via drama series ‘Top of the Lake‘, starring Elisabeth Moss, Peter Mullan and Holly Hunter.

Explaining his strategy, Harvey Weinstein told his audience, "TV is such an exciting area at the moment and movies are shrinking to some extent. So it‘s the right time for us to get into TV in a big way."

Attending MIPCOM to present ‘House of Cards‘ to potential buyers, American actor, director, screenwriter and producer Kevin Spacey noted, "When you look where the most interesting plot lines, storylines and characters are, it‘s in television."

House of Cards is the re-make of the classic 1990 British mini-series. The US version will be set in the backdrop of electoral politics. The British version had explored the merciless underside of British politics at the end of the Thatcher era.

The four-day MIPCOM is the annual global market for entertainment content across all platforms. Every year, the industry‘s international heavy hitters - from TV and film - converge in Cannes to create a new world of entertainment.

Major companies and household names from the film and internet world lined up alongside their television counterparts for one of the biggest MIPCOMs ever. MIPCOM 2012 cemented a coming together of all sectors of the entertainment business.

As many as 12,900 delegates from 104 countries, including 4,400 buyers, negotiated and networked their way throughout MIPCOM 2012. Of those buyers, over 500 were making dedicated VOD (video on demand) acquisitions, according to a statement by MIPCOM.