Co-Production and Co-Venture Forum
New for 2012, BANFF is proud to announce the BANFF Co-Production Business Market
Aimed at fostering new partnerships between leading international content producers, distributors and funders, this year’s Banff World Media Festival places more emphasis on groundbreaking production deals with producers from around the world.
The Banff Co-Production Market provides a business hub for and digital media executives producing and commissioning co-productions around the world. This year's major new co-production initiative will include:
A Decision Maker Series
- A dedicated one hour face to face meeting slots designed to allow Banff attendees to meet with development executives, decision makers and funders, interested in meeting potential co-production/co-venture partners.
Co-Production Strategies & Opportunities
- Examine the newest & most promising co-production/co-venture deals in within each genre. Find out what leading executives are looking for and how their operations view co-production.
- Global Co-Production Opportunities: Kids & Animation
- Global Co-Production: Factual Formats that Travel
- Global Co-Production: Scripted TV
Global Co-Production Deals: The Insiders Perspective
- Join country specific network chieftans who put together notable co-production deals and find out what has gone right or wrong with their projects, what they look for in a co-production partner and how you can make the deal. Focus will be on TV programming issues such as funding and financing, deal structures and budgets, and finding the right co-production and broadcast partners.
- Securing Co-Production & Co-Venture Partners: North America
- Securing Co-Production & Co-Venture Partners: International
2012 Advisory Board:
- Fred Fuchs - Independent Executive Producer
- Ira Levy - Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Breakthrough Films & Television, Breakthrough Entertainment and Breakthrough New Media
- Kevin Cooper - Agent, CAA
- Jonas Agin - Executive Director of Global Original Programming, Disney Channel
- Christine Shipton - Vice President, SHAW Media
- Andra Sheffer - Executive DIrector, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Interdependent Production Fund and COGECO Program Development Fund
- Norm Bolen - President and CEO of the Canadian Media Production Association
- Thomas Von Hennet - Vice President, Internaitonal Co-Production & Documentaries, ProSeibenSat.1 TV Deutschland
- Valerie Creighton - President and CEO, CMF
