HOUSTON (Texas): ADV Films, a leading distributor of anime and genre live action programming in the English-speaking world has announced a partial list of the global licensing opportunities the firm will have available at MIPCOM 2002. The annual international licensing fair is to be held in Cannes, France from 7 to 11 October .

Aimed primarily at the international television market, MIPCOM features representatives of the TV broadcasting, TV production & distribution industries, DVD and video producers and distributors, Internet and new media companies, advertising firms, licensing and merchandising firms and myriad collateral service providers. ADV Films has several titles available to be licensed for broadcast and distribution in markets across the globe. Apart from television and home video rights, ADV Films also offers merchandising, game and other rights for licensing.

The company is offering titles in numerous genres and formats, with availability in Europe, Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and more. The company says MIPCOM is the ideal one-stop setting for meeting potential licensees and for discussing opportunities each of its properties has to offer.

Television, home video, merchandising and game rights available for these and other ADV titles include Lady Death The Movie, Kaleido Star, Noir.

Today, ADV claims to be the number one distributor of Japanese animation to the North American market, with the firm's holdings including such premier titles as priggan, Sailor Moon, Samurai X.. ADV has also expanded into other forms of genre programming, including live-action science fiction programmes like Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda and Farscape.