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Screen Africa attended the launch today of the MTN South Africa Push-to-Talk (PTT) technology for business users at the Johannesburg Zoo. PTT is a revolutionary technology that allows users to coordinate their workforce from anywhere in South Africa at the touch of a button.

A large turnout of representatives from the advertising world, production industry and corporates attended the Reshaping Media conference at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on 8 May. The conference focused on how new media technologies are changing traditional marketing and media consumption.

As a run-up to Mediatech Africa, the continent’s largest advanced technology trade fair for the broadcast, communications, audio-visual and live events industries, which takes place from 12 to 14 June, organisers Thebe Exhibitions convened an exhibitors’ briefing on 4 May at the show venue, Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre.

In its "Classics Programme', this year’s Cannes International Film Festival will honour the work of iconic actors Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond, The Grapes of Wrath), Marlon Brando (The Godfather, Streetcar Named Desire), Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man, Henry V) and writer/director/actress Elaine May (Primary Colours, Ishtar, A New Leaf).

Described as the "Golden Globes' of the Ad industry, the Annual AdFocus Awards, now in their 15th year, honour creative and business excellence in the advertising industry.

At the recent Eurovision TV Summit in Lucerne, Eurovision TV (a brand of the European Broadcasting Union) launched a publication called Trading TV Formats.

The 3rd Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival concluded last week after four days of screening 128 films from over 60 countries.

The ability and eagerness of individuals to create their own content has been assessed as one of the biggest threats to traditional media in a new survey by Accenture.

This year the Italian film industry is joining forces to present a unified face at the Cannes International Film Festival (16 - 27 May, Cannes, France), based in the I-Club on the first floor of the Hilton Hotel on the Croisette.

Studio Briefing reports that China and Russia were named the world’s worst piracy culprits by US Trade Representative Susan C Schwab, in her introduction to a report on international efforts to protect intellectual property rights (IRP).