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MIPTV 2023: a good content place to be
MIPTV 2023 starts formally today, with the push of its ‘Super Sunday’ which proved that this spring MIP edition is on a good mood: many people, including about 300 buyers, attended both MIPdramas and MIPdoc facilities, receiving new tips from the organization that reinforces the value of the events.‘MIPTV is up again’, RX France emphasizes at every step, and the first sensations in Cannes seem to be on the line.
Which have been the new tips? At MIPdramas, now the selection of the 10 titles were the same from the jury of CannesSeries, and as buyers have no time of watching all the products, it was held a ‘Preview screening’ with 10-15 minutes of each title, all together. And the good system of MIPdramas was emulated by MIPdoc, which had a selection of 10 titles + one more from Paramount Global Distribution, the main sponsor of the event and cocktail we see in the pictures. The public chose two winners by ‘Coup de Coeur’, spontaneously. All these tips were made for the first time.
Title preferences? At MIPdramas the trend was dark stories & black humor. Among the most commented series, there were ‘Cartago’, a WWII drama about the human miseries in war times; ‘Bon Matin’, a black comedy about the effects of drugs abuse in fame race; and ‘Prisoner’, about a female prison guard who confronts ethical conflicts in her job due to family reasons. The ‘feel good’ programming was not chosen this time.
At MIPdoc, the two winners were: ‘Little Scandinavia’, a SVT Sweden docummentary about if the more humane methods used in Scandinavian prisons can work in the US. One US facility decided to copy one and find out. And ‘The Caravan’ from Cabal Films (Spain): the story of an eight months pregnant woman, her son and her partner, who leave Honduras in a migrant caravan intending to reach United States, across terrible dangers. As at MIPdramas… niche, outsider stories were preferred.
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