7 - 10 April 2014 - Cannes, France
MEDIA ALERT
MIPTV 2014 JOINT KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED
“TANDEM/STUDIOCANAL: EUROPEAN SENSIBILITY – GLOBAL APPEAL”
With Olivier Courson, CEO, STUDIOCANAL & Rola Bauer, President/Partner, Tandem Communications
Tuesday 8 April, Palais des Festivals, Cannes
Paris, 10 February 2014 – Olivier Courson, Chairman and CEO, STUDIOCANAL & Rola Bauer, President/Partner, Tandem Communications (a STUDIOCANAL company) will present a joint keynote address at MIPTV in Cannes, Tuesday, 8 April.
Entitled Tandem/STUDIOCANAL: European Sensibility – Global Appeal, the keynote will highlight the companies’ international productions and announcements of new productions for prime-time programming worldwide. In addition, the keynote will cover how they are optimizing synergies and opportunities within STUDIOCANAL, the leading European, vertically integrated studio.
Olivier Courson has built STUDIOCANAL into a major European studio - among the leaders of feature film production, acquisition and distribution - and a leading international television studio following their acquisition of Tandem Communications two years ago and Red Production Company in December last year. Among the many STUDIOCANAL film productions that Courson has developed are the Coen brothers’ INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS with Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman, produced by Scott Rudin & awarded the Jury’s Grand Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival; THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac; NON-STOP directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, with Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Michelle Dockery; THE GUNMAN produced by Joel Silver, directed by Pierre Morel with Sean Penn, Javier Bardem and Idris Elba; and the upcoming theatrical releases, PADDINGTON, produced by Harry Potter producer David Heyman, and starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Bonneville and Shakespeare’s MACBETH, starring Academy-Award® nominee Michael Fassbender and Academy-Award® winner Marion Cotillard. Golden Globe® and two-time Emmy® nominated producer Rola Bauer, was recognized this year by the Hollywood Reporter as one of ’The 25 Most Powerful Women in Global TV.’ She has pioneered international co-productions since 1985. Bauer is Executive Producer of the one-hour crime series, CROSSING LINES, currently in production on Season Two, starring William Fichtner, Marc Lavoine and Donald Sutherland. SEX, LIES AND HANDWRITING, a new Tandem co- production with Lionsgate, is the second one-hour drama series they are producing since joining the STUDIOCANAL family in 2012. Tandem develops, finances, produces and distributes primetime programs for the worldwide market. Emmy & Gemini Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated, THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH and WORLD WITHOUT END are just two examples of Tandem’s award-winning and critically acclaimed productions.
About MIPTV – Founded in 1963, MIPTV is the world’s market and creative forum for content on every screen. It brings together professionals from the global TV and online content industry to Cannes, France, for four days of exhibition, conferences, screenings and networking. It is a key market for buying and selling content and early-stage content development. MIPCube constitutes a special programme exploring tech and creative approaches with the community re- inventing the content experience within MIPTV. The weekend prior to MIPTV, MIPDoc and MIPFormats constitute a two- day showcase for non-fiction and unscripted programming. In 2013, MIPTV celebrated its 50th anniversary. www.miptv.com
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