Plans Set for 2009 Children, Youth & Media Conference

MONTREAL: The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) is to host the 2009 Children, Youth & Media Conference, which brings together Canadian creators, producers and broadcasters, on November 19.

The event will feature a lunch with Canadian broadcasters and funding representatives, who will present a small group with information about their mandate, specifics and objects, their broadcast schedules and target audiences, the kind of projects they’re looking for and the most effective way to pitch them. There’s also a session highlighting gender representation and its impact on kids. Another session, supported by CTVglobemedia, will present a national study on Canadian television programming for children that was conducted by ACT.

The 2009 Children, Youth & Media Conference is being produced with financial assistance from its partners: the Independent Production Fund, HIT Entertainment, Apartment 11 Productions, Family Channel and Shaftesbury Kids.