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| Activity Report 2011
IMZ AVANT PREMIÈRE SCREENINGS AT MIDEM 2011 23 – 26 January 2011 Cannes, France The Avant Première Screenings are an initiative by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre in collaboration with MIDEM, where the world’s leading producers of fine programmes on culture and the arts present their latest productions. It is a market • for programme purchasers in search of high-quality audio-visual programmes on culture, the performing arts, music and dance • for producers with an interesting project for which they need coproduction partners • for programme suppliers/distributors who want to present their latest audio-visual programmes on culture, the performing arts, music or dance to the programme purchasers of international television stations • for film festival programmers looking for an opportunity to get a comprehensive overview of the latest trends in dance and music films • for editors/journalists who want to keep abreast of the trends in the fields of culture, the performing arts, music or dance. For the 27th time the IMZ took part in an eventful MIDEM conference. Once again it was possible for the IMZ to screen, as in the year before, in the new screening location of Auditorium A - a true cinema hall with a massive screen, sophisticated technical equipment and more than 300 seats. Aided by the brilliant technical capabilities of the MIDEM staff, the event was a pleasure to manage. At the IMZ Avant Première Screenings at MIDEM 2011, over a period of four days, no fewer than 54 companies presented their show reels in Auditorium A, including 380 productions of classical music, world music and jazz as well as classical ballet and contemporary dance to a rapt audience. Just as in former years the IMZ exhibition, with its breathtaking sea view of the bay of Cannes and of „La Croisette“, was a centre of attrac-
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tion and a busy venue for many productive meetings. IMZ veterans welcomed new members at the customary IMZ welcome cocktail on Sunday afternoon, 24 January 2011 at 2.30pm. The newly elected IMZ president Chris Hunt was handed over a bunch of 50 roses for IMZ’s 50th anniversary by Cornelia Much of ReedMIDEM and wished the IMZ and its members a successful MIDEM and business year 2011! The IMZ/MIDEM conference „Unveiling new opportunities to monetise classical music“, held on Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 2.30 - 3.45pm, brought together Kevin Arnold, Founder and CEO of IODA (USA), James Brown, Managing Director of Hazard Chase Limited (UK), Jens Neubert, Author and Director/CEO of Syquali Multimedia (Switzerland), Costa Pilavachi, SVP, Classical artists & Repertoire of Universal Music Group International (UK) and Alexander Schönburg, Managing Director of Agency 4E7 (Marketing / Social Media) to discuss current models to improve revenues as well as new strategies of monetising classical music via Web 2.0 such as Facebook and platforms such as YouTube and how to better reach important target groups such as young people. The conference was well-visited and led to a lively discussion with the audience. Thanks to effusive positive feedback the IMZ has received for its organisation of the stand, the board meeting, the 56th General Assembly and the screenings, we look forward to another successful edition of MIDEM 2012....
IMZ JURY PANEL FOR THE BANFF WORLD TELEVISION FESTIVAL April 2011 The 32nd Banff World Television Festival took place 12 – 15 June 2011 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Canada. International broadcasters, producers, writers, directors, distributors and industry executives from over 25 countries attended the festival. A core feature of the festival is the Banff World Television Awards, also known as the „Rockies”, one of the world’s most prestigious events celebrating outstanding work by international TV creators responsible for the continuing evolution and originality in the industry. This year, pilots are also