World Screen

HOLLYWOOD, June 6: Jorge Camara was re-elected to a sixth term as the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 2008-2009 year. A member of the association for 43 years, Camara covers entertainment (print and television), for …

June 2008 Ever since the first of this year, each time I’ve written “2008,” I have remembered that 40 years ago was 1968—a tumultuous, incendiary year across the globe. Images of that year—the Tet Offensive and My Lai massacre, battles, …

June 2008 You’ve heard the saying “The more things change the more they stay the same.” Well, it’s time to retire that adage. We in the media business have to store it away alongside our old record players, VCRs and …

DENVER, June 5: Thought Equity Motion, a supplier of online motion content licensing and management services, has appointed Sal Siino as its executive VP of worldwide sales. In his new role, Siino will oversee the company’s growing U.S. distribution operations, …

LONDON, June 5: Chapman Entertainment, behind the preschool stop-frame animation series Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car, is setting up its own production studio, which will become fully operational in July. The studio will be based in …

LONDON, June 5: Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a British version of the game-show format Relentless, due to air this fall. Relentless marks Zig Zag’s first game show for Channel 4 and signals the …

LONDON, June 5: Sally Miles, the founder and former chief of iD Distribution—today part of the Digital Rights Group—has set up a new venture, Passion Distribution. Miles launched iD in 2004 with venture capital backers Ingenious, who chose to consolidate …

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5: In 2009, PBS will premiere “The State of the Planet’s Oceans,” the next episode in Screenscope’s environmental series Journey to Planet Earth, with Matt Damon returning as the on-camera host/narrator. Produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Hal …

MADRID, June 5: Imagina International Sales (ISS) will head to DISCOP with a catalogue of documentaries, feature films and series, including Los hombres de paco (Paco’s Men), which Endemol Italy has just picked up the format rights for. Endemol Italy …

TORONTO, June 5: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has received new orders for seven non-fiction programs, totaling 58 episodes, from various cable channels, including several for Discovery networks in Canada. Peace Arch Entertainment’s Vancouver-based production and post-production company, The Eyes, has …