Creators and producers are invited to present original entertainment ideas to
the MIPFormats International Pitch competition, taking place in Cannes on 5 and
6 April 2014. Applicants have until Monday 3 February 2014 to submit a
completed entry form along with their new and unique concepts.
Finalists are announced in early March and the winner receives €25,000
(approximately R340,000) in development funding.
Selection is based on how creative, original, innovative and well-structured the
non-scripted formats in entertainment, factual entertainment and game show
genres are. Other factors to be considered are how much potential the content
has to be developed into multiple series and if it is able to be exported to
countries, small and large.
Reed MIDEM, organiser of MIPTV and MIPFormats, and Warner Bros.
International Television Production (WBITVP) sponsors the event, preceding the
annual MIPTV content market from 7 to 10 April 2014.
Andrew Zein, senior vice president of Creative, Format Development and Sales
at WBITVP said: “MIPFormats has established itself as the world’s leading
competition for new formats, and the last two competitions in particular have
delivered outstanding ideas from across the world. We are delighted once again
to be the sponsor.’
Hatch Entertainment of Australia won the competition last year with the musical
format Big Again, in which previous musical stars select up-and-coming talent to
reinterpret their songs.
Greg Logan, owner and executive producer of Hatch Entertainment commented:
“It gave Hatch a global deal with Warner Bros. International Television
Production, introduced us to some of the best people in the industry and has
given us global exposure and recognition. We have secured wonderful
production partners in key markets like the UK, the US and Italy, who have
added to and improved the formats, and by next MIP we will hopefully have a
commissioned show.’
Visit: http://www.mipformats.com for more information.
