Tag: MIPDoc 2019

World Screen Newsflash recaps the major themes and news stories from MIPDoc.

The winners of this year's MIPDoc Project Pitch have been chosen in the categories of science and technology and current affairs and investigation.

In a MIPDoc session hosted by Patrick Vien, A+E Networks’ executive co-managing director of international, A&E’s Elaine Frontain Bryant and History’s Mary Donahue outlined their programming remits, highlighting The Clinton Affair and Jesus: His Life, respectively.

Dr. Michael Gunton, creative director of the Natural History Unit and factual at BBC Studios, talked about working with David Attenborough and immersive wildlife filmmaking with World Screen's Anna Carugati at MIPDoc today before being presented with the World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.

Are you attending MIPDoc this weekend? Make sure to get your copy of TV Real, visit TVReal.ws, access our Twitter feed, and peruse listings of numerous new shows via our Screening Rooms.

On the first day of MIPDoc, April 6, BBC Studios’ Dr. Michael Gunton will sit down with World Screen’s Anna Carugati in the Grand Theatre at the JW Marriott to discuss the art and craft of factual filmmaking in the special Talent Behind the Scenes session, which will be followed by the presentation of this year’s World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.

The ten finalists for the MIPDoc Project Pitches have been revealed, touching on topics such as space history, climate change, technologies to rediscover the past and shape the future, baby trafficking and domestic labor in Africa.

MIPDoc 2019 will feature a series of premiere showcases from ZDF Enterprises, with its new partner Off the Fence, Smithsonian Channel in conjunction with Arrow Media and more.