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Cannes, France: Paula Brown has compiled a list of terminology, quotes and interesting statistical data which she picked up from the conference sessions she attended at the is year’s MIPTV which closed on Friday, 20 April.

Imagine a world where you can be whatever you want. Where you can meet people, have meetings with clients, live in your dream home, buy an island and much more.

Cannes, France: "If I hear the word, demographics again, I am going to puke' Johnny Cash.

Cannes, France: "Audiences are, more than ever, dictating where, when and how they want their content.

Cannes, France: It used to be that the big studios financed movies from start to finish but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc (MGM) has come to the party.

Tim Mostert, the creator of Speedy:, the animation one-minute series which started life as a cartoon strip in the national newspaper, the Daily Sun, has signed a deal with ReelTime.com at MIPTV for the full Inkpot Studios’ slate of programmes.

There have been more than 40,000 documentaries released on the web according to Internet Movie Database and of these 40% are carried by Amazon.com.

Reed MIDEM, the Paris-based organiser of international exhibitions, announced on Wednesday, 18 April, that the company was to launch AMAZIA, the first pan-Asian, business-to-business exhibition and conference devoted to the creation and distribution of international entertainment content across all delivery platforms.

The Mobile TV and Multi-platform content Showcase at MIPTV provided some compelling stats, jargon and innovative thinking. Mark Selby, Vice President, Nokia (UK) started off by differentiating between Mobile TV and Mobile Broadcast TV.

In a celebration of natural history, eco-tourism and cultural filmmaking, the ROSCAR Celebratory Awards will be awarded to filmmakers at the Durban Wild Talk Africa Film Festival and Conference, which runs from 27-30 August 2007 at the ICC Durban.