NATPE to Expand Reality Track Program

LOS ANGELES: During the upcoming market and conference, a second day will be added to the NATPE Reality track, following its inaugural one-day run.

NATPE returns to the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach from January 19 to 21 in 2016. The upcoming NATPE Reality track will feature a range of sessions and events devoted to the genre, including the second annual Reality Breakthrough Awards, which honor today’s most innovative reality programs in five categories: reality, reality competition, game show, docusoap and factual. The winners will named during a ceremony on January 19.

Next year, NATPE is also launching the Reality Buyers Hall, offering executives, producers, writers, creators and agents from all over the world a one-stop venue for meetings, networking and the chance to interact with buyers, distributors, creators, producers and stars from all facets of the content business.

“The growth of NATPE Reality mirrors the surge in attendance we have enjoyed from this critically important segment of the business,” said Rod Perth, NATPE’s president and CEO. “Reality is intensifying its footprint at the conference as a strong and vibrant economic force, reflecting its role as a permanent fixture of the interdependent television constellation alongside scripted programming. This is the first conference of the year for the reality community, and we’re delighted to host this important gathering with the Miami Beach setting in the dead of winter!”

“NATPE is an ideas market, a place where producers, writers, creators and talent can pitch new ideas to buyers and commissioners and development executives,” added Phil Gurin, the president of The Gurin Company, a member of the NATPE board of directors and co-chair of the NATPE Reality committee. “It is exciting to imagine the fresh new pitches that will be at NATPE as part of the larger reality track the conference has planned.”