World Screen to Present Fourth Annual Content Trendsetter Awards at MIPCOM

NEW YORK: World Screen and MIPCOM are presenting the fourth annual Content Trendsetter Awards, which this year will honor Nine Network’s Les Sampson, ITV’s Sasha Breslau, Globo’s Paulo Mendes and SundanceTV’s Christian Vesper.

The recipients of the 2014 Content Trendsetter Awards, which recognize the achievements of some of the world's top programming executives, are Sampson, the director of acquisitions at Nine Network in Australia; Breslau, the head of acquired series at ITV in the U.K.; Mendes, the director of acquisitions at Globo in Brazil; and Vesper, the senior VP of scripted programming at SundanceTV in the U.S.

These executives will receive the Content Trendsetter Award at the end of the Acquisition Superpanel: What Do Buyers Want? session at MIPCOM on Wednesday, October 15. Taking place at the Grand Auditorium in the Palais, this must-attend panel will see the honorees discussing their programming strategies in conversation with Anna Carugati, World Screen's group editorial director.