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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.02 - MAY 2000
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MIP TV Moments
Oui Oui To MIP TV! MIP TV is the premiere television conference and market in the world. The six-day event brought together production companies and distributors from all over the globe. The conference included a vast array of panels and round-table discussions with some of the world’s top professionals. In 1999, MIP TV attracted 10,439 professionals from 2,565 companies from 94 countries, of which 1,170 were exhibiting companies from 50 different countries. This year MIP TV featured a focus on the Internet and other related new technologies. Many of the discussions presented at MIP TV centered on the convergence of television with the Internet. Entitled MIPNET Day@MIP TV, the event was sponsored by Mediaplay International, a leading ITV consultant, in association with Variety Magazine and Razorfish, a leading digital solutions firm. President and CEO of Bertelsmann Broadband Group, Werner Lauff, gave the introductory keynote speech to start off MIPNET Day@MIP TV. Nearly 40% of the participating companies at this year’s market are either completely dedicated to new media or are involved in some way with the Web and new media technologies. The event featured discussions on the future of digital media; the marketing and selling of cross media content; and pitch sessions with some of the top executives from the U.K., U.S. and Denmark. Below we have arranged a special report of animated programs that were offered by several production companies and distributors at MIP TV. CineGroupe brought two animated series and one animated television movie. Lion Of Oz is a 70-minute TV movie featuring the voices of Jason Priestley as the Lion and Lynn Redgrave as the Wicked Witch of the East. The movie follows the journey of a cowardly circus lion, who has been transported to the magical land of Oz. The movie was produced in association with Sony Wonder and is scheduled to air on the Disney Channel in the fall. Lion Of Oz also features the voices of Jane Horrocks, Kathy Griffin, Tim Curry, Bobcat Goldthwait and Dom DeLuise. Mega Babies is a half-hour series that follows the crazy mishaps of a trio of super powered pints in their battle to save the universe from every unthinkable terror. Produced by CineGroupe in association with Sony Wonder, and presented by Landmark Entertainment, the series premiered on Fox Family in the U.S. and Teletoon in Canada in October of 1999. Sagwa, The Chinese Cat is based on the award-winning children’s book by Amy Tan. The series follows the adventures of Sagwa, a very curious cat. Produced in association with the Children’s Television Workshop and IF/X Productions, the show is set in Ancient China were a free-spirited cat finds out that the world is not always black and white. Currently, forty half-hour episodes are in production to be broadcast on PBS KIDS stations in the fall of 2001. Curious Pictures tromped into MIP TV with three toon series. Produced for Cartoon Network, Sheep In The Big City is by Emmy award-winning Curious Pictures’ director Mo Willems. The cartoon series chronicles the sardonically perilous adventures of a sheep on the lam. The show tells the story of a sheep who runs away from the farm and hides out in The Big City because a Top Secret Military Organization is after him. Created by Curious Pictures West Coast Creative Director Denis Morella, Prickles The Cactus is scheduled to premiere on the Cartoon Network and on-line at CartoonNetwork.com. The cartoon centers on the misadventures of a well intentioned but exuberantly klutzy girl cactus. Produced for Oxygen Media, Avenue Amy is directed by Curious Pictures’ Joan Raspo and written by Amy Sohn, based off of her New York Press column. The show sets brightly colored, rotoscoped actors against live-action photo collage backgrounds in a satirical look at the daily life of a woman living in New York. Dargaud-Marina unveiled its new animated children's special, Spud And The Vegetable Garden, at MIP TV. The movie centers on four chloroform comrades Spud the potato, Broccoli, Leek and Carrot. When the Gardener doesn’t show up one day, the fortified foursome venture outside the vegetable patch to discover a whole new world they have never seen before. The special is written by Cami Di Francesco, Damien Louche-Pelissier and Benoit Chieux and produced by award-winning animation house, Folimage. |
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