If you’re considering attending MIPCOM this year, don’t forget to sign up in time for the Early Bird rate. September 7 is the last day you can benefit from savings of €300 on the walk-in rate. Just under 12,000 people from over 1,500 companies attended last year.
MIPCOM 2006 will again feature the Mobile TV Awards (deadline: Sept. 4) that “recognise outstanding achievement in mobile film and video content as well as honouring innovation in new Mobile TV formats”.
This year will also for the first time feature a special section for cinema producers attending the event. For details of this and more, visit MIPCOM.com.
UPDATE: Young producers from Berlin might be interested in the following:
TV: Send in Cannes entries now: “How to Mip” makes it to round four
(Entry deadline: August 25th, 2006 for MIPCOM; October 9th – 13th, 2006; Cannes)
Now through August 25th, young television producers from Berlin-Brandenburg can enter Medienboard’s “How to Mip” contest. The submission of a brief outline of a proposed TV project and a short company description are enough to send young TV professionals to the international television trade fair MIPCOM (October 9th – 13th, 2006) in Cannes. Register with b.reuter@medienboard.de.