Tandem Teams with NATPE Europe to Host Co-Pro Summit in Prague

LOS ANGELES/MUNICH: NATPE Europe is set to co-host a summit in Prague with Tandem Communications focused on co-productions.

Entitled Now, the Story Starts in Europe!, the summit will take place on Tuesday, June 24 in Prague. It will cover all aspects of building up a global narrative and moving the international production community to rethink how the business is run. It will feature a lineup of network execs involved in international co-pros, European showrunners, U.S. showrunners and European production companies.

Rola Bauer, the president and partner at Tandem, commented, “Collaborative international co-productions are a vital way of ensuring first-rate content is made on both sides of the Atlantic. Central and Eastern Europe have thriving production and creative communities which enable us to produce exceptional programming without borders. I am delighted to help bring a group of experts together in Prague to share our experience, ambitions and challenges with NATPE||Europe delegates.”

Rod Perth, the president and CEO of NATPE, added, “Tandem is the go-to company in Europe for big-event programming and we are very pleased to work with them on this project. We are building an extremely high-level panel which will reveal best practice for all facets of the international co-production business and discuss how the multiple parts of the puzzle must fit to realize the best possible creative results as well as the all-important return on investment.”