MIPCOM Mobile and TV awards on Second Life

There's nothing like practicing what you preach. MIPCOM has been championing new media for some time now. For the third time the event will host the Mobile and TV Awards for innovative programming in "cross-media" formats. What's new this year is that they are showcasing the event on the online game Second Life.
Categories include:

1. Best Short Form Audiovisual Entertainment made for Mobile and/or Internet:
Drama
2. Best Short Form Audiovisual Entertainment made for Mobile and/or Internet:
Comedy
3. Best Short Form Audiovisual Entertainment made for Mobile and/or Internet:
Lifestyle/Music
4. Best Short Form Audiovisual Entertainment made for Mobile and/or Internet:
Factual
5. Best Cross Platform & interactive Mobile TV Format
6. Best Made-for-Mobile TV or Film Channel
7. Best Mobile service for Social Community & User-Generated Content
8. Best Short Film originally Created or Repurposed for Mobile
9. Best Film shot on a Mobile Device

The nominees will be announced in September. Check back for details. MIPCOM will be held October 8-12.

Dove film wins Cannes Lions award

Lots of advertising is really simple. The film by Dove for the Self-Esteem fund by Ogilvy & Mater Canada is a perfect example. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a fast-forward shot of a girl being made-up for a photo shoot, with the subsequent photo being Photoshopped. And the strapline is... well, I wouldn't like to spoil the suspense. Check it and the other winners now at Cannes Lion Live.

Cannes 2007: The winners

Just in case you missed anything, here is the full list of winners at Cannes this year:

Palme d´Or
4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu (RO)

Grand Jury Prize
The Mourning Forest - Naomi Kawase (JP)

60th Anniversary Prize
Gus van Sant - Paranoid Park (FR)

Best Actress
Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine - Lee Chang-dong (KR)

Best Actor
Konstantin Lavronenko, The Banishment - Andreï Zviaguintsev (RU)

Best Director
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel (FR)

Best Screenplay
Fatih Akin - The Edge of Heaven (DE)

Jury Prize
Silent Light - Carlos Reygadas (FR)
Persepolis - Marjane Strapi and Vincent Paronnaud (FR)

Caméra d´Or
Jellyfish (FR)
Special Mention:
Control (GB)

Palme d´Or for Best Short Film
Ver Lllover - Elisa Miller (MX)
Special Mention:
Ah Ma - Anthony Chen (Singapour)
Run - Mark Albiston (NZ)

Winners of the 4th Pan-African film festival in Cannes

The jury of the Fourth Edition of the Cannes Pan African Film Festival, presided by Mrs. Pascale OBOLO, made the following awards:

• The DIKALO award for best feature film to Sergio Bianchi for his film "What is it worth ?"(Brazil)

• The Pan African Award for the best feature (jury creation) to Sol de Carvalho for "Le jardin d’un autre home [An other man’s garden]" (Mozambique)
• The DIKALO award for the best short film: ex aequo

Gérard Essomba : "L’enfant peau rouge [The Redskin Child " (Cameroun)

Tami Ravid : "Samual"( Holland)

• The Special Jury Award : to Cécile Vernant’s work "Il était une fois...Sasha et Désiré [Once upon a time ... Sacha and Désiré]" (France)

• The DIKALO award for the best documentary to Kal Touré for "Victimes de nos richesses : pays pillés...[Victimes of our riches: pillaged countries]" (Mali)

• The Special Award for the Best Actor to Mugisha Feruzi for his performance in Nicole Parker’s film "The Plague(USA)

The 2007 edition will be remembered for the quality of the films presented. The festival organiser, Basile Ngangue Ebelle (pictured right with Cecile Vernant), was awarded a Médaille de Verneil by the French Academy of Arts, Science & Letters for his work just prior to the festival.

MIPIM awards salute outstanding real estate projects

The prestigious MIPIM Awards honour the most outstanding real estate projects of the previous year. On Thursday 15 March 2007, the international jury revealed this year's winners. The jury also gave out a Special Jury Award and, for the first time ever, a Special Tribute to a project in line with sustainable and environmental features.

The winners in the five sections are:
* Business centres - Portico, Spain
* Refurbished Office Building - Belmont Court (Belgium)
* Hotel and Tourism Resort - Malmaison Oxford, UK
* Shopping Centres - Europa Passage, Germany
* residential Developments - Colliers Kirinda, Sri Lanka

The refurbishment of 7 World Trade Center (US) was given a Special Jury Award.

For more details, visit Mipim.com.

MIPCOM Mobile TV Awards

Although it's not the only thing to happen at MIPCOM, the Mobile TV Awards generated a lot of buzz. It's certainly true that the media landscape is undergoing massive changes, with TV shows now available as paid downloads. This opens the door in terms of new distribution possibilities and the so-called "long tail" of revenue after intial broadcasting.

The mobile sector is also growing significantly. No one is entirely what it will grow into, of course, but there's a general feeling that more can be done than offering re-runs of material from other media. But as one participant pointed out, although the telcos are very excited about offering exciting new content to their subscribers, few are willing to invest in actual production.

Anyway, here is the drum-roll for this year's awards:

. Best Original Made- for- Mobile Film or Video Content
"Jokes", Green Paddy Animation Studio (Taiwan)
. Best Repurposed Content From Existing Film or TV Property
"On This Day in History (OTDIH)", ITN ON (UK)
. Best Made- for-Mobile TV Channel
NHK Mobile-G Channel, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Japan)
. Best Format for Interactive Mobile TV
"Forget the Rules", Global Dilemma Pty Ltd. (Australia)
. Best Mobile Format for User-Generated Content
3 Mobile's See Me TV service, 3 Mobile (UK)
. The Orange Grand Prize For Innovation
"Soccer Addicts", Buongiorno (Italy).

To check the Best Format for Interactive, visit Australia's Forget the Rules. In their own words, "Why just watch when you can control what happens".

Cannes 2006 winners

Although many people are saying that overall this was a rather tepid edition, the top winners are quite strong. Giving the best actor and actress awards to collective casts is also an interesting notion.

The Awards

Palme d´Or
The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Ken Loach

Grand Prize
Flanders by Bruno Dumont

Best Actress
The cast of Volver

Best Actor
The cast of Indigènes

Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu - Babel

Best Screenplay
Volver - Pedro Almodóvar

Jury Prize
Red Road by Andrea Arnold

Caméra d´Or
12:08 East Bucharest by Corneliu Porumboiu

Palme d´Or for the Best Short Film
Sniffe by Bobbie Peers

For the full round up, see Cineuropa.

Creator of Goldorak and Power Rangers to be honoured at MIPTV

Originally posted on March 13, 2006. The Japanese company TOEI, known for its successes with the Power Rangers and Goldorak, is to receive a lifetime achievement award at MIPTV in Cannes. TOEI has been active for 50 years already. Most recently, it has produced award-winning features such as the second world war drama "Yamato" that won a prize at Cannes 2005.

Although the MIPTV awards usually go to individuals, "TOEI executives were very insistent that their success has been a collective effort and that the award should go to the whole TOEI team, rather than any one individual,” commented Paul Johnson, Director of the Television Division, Reed MIDEM.

MIPTV will be held in Cannes between April 3 and 7. Details at MIPTV.com.

Pan-African Film fest makes Cannes award

Originally posted Feb 21, 2006. DIKALO AWARDS - 2006 The winners of the third edition of the Panafrican Film Festival 11th to 19th February - Cannes, France

The Jury of the third edition of the Panafrican Film Festival, led by Mrs Jeanne ROMANA granted the following awards:

The DIKALO award for the best full-lenght movie was granted to "ROBLE DE OLOR" by director Rigoberto LOPEZ (Cuba) .

The DIKALO award for best short film was granted to "SAFI" by director Raso GANEMTORE (Burkina Faso) .

The DIKALO award for best documentary was granted to "CALYPSO@DIRTY JIM'S" by director Pascale OBOLO (France / Cameroon). A special award was granted by the jury to the documentary film "TANKAFATRA" directed by Hery A. RASALO (Madagascar).

The Pan-African Film festival is sometimes called the "other Cannes film festival". For details, visit their website