Profiles

World Screen looks back at some of last year's biggest media stories.

Another edition of the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) kicks off on December 1, with an invitation-only event taking place at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore running through December 3 and the virtual ATF Online+ running through June.

More than 2,000 accredited participants from 56 countries took part in this year’s MIA—International Audiovisual Market, which in its seventh edition had both in-person and online components.

A reformatted MIPCOM took place in Cannes, hosting some 4,500 executives on site, according to RX France's Lucy Smith, with the lessons learned from planning this event set to inform the shape of MIPTV 2022.

Sarah Hemar, deputy managing director of UniFrance in charge of audiovisual and digital, on what to expect from the 27th edition of Le Rendez-Vous Bi@rritz taking place in September.

Laurence Herszberg, founder and general director of Series Mania, on what's in store for the upcoming Festival and Forum.

France Télévisions’ Diego Buñuel, BluTV’s Aydin Doğan Yalçindağ, the EBU’s Jean Philip De Tender and Banijay Rights’ Cathy Payne discussed evolving media regulations, funding models and more in a session organized by the Paley Center for Media.

Lucy Smith, the director of MIPTV and MIPCOM, shares how the organizers are planning for a physical event in October.

Ian McKee, CEO of Vuulr, talks about how the digital content marketplace for TV and film rights provides a streamlined, cost-efficient and time-saving way of doing business.

Laurence Herszberg, founder and general director of Series Mania, talks about its new initiatives as well as the 2021 edition of the event, which is scheduled to take place in Lille, France, and the Hauts-de-France region from August 26 to September 2.