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DATE   EVENT   LINK
2008        
April 5-6

MIPdoc Cannes, France

The world's audiovisual content market

www.mipdoc.com

 

April 7-11

MIPtv featuring MILIA Cannes, France

The world's audiovisual content market

www.miptv.com

www.milia.com

April 11-17 NAB Show, Las Vegas, USA www.nabshow.com/
April 15  

FOCAL International's Annual General Meeting at 1200, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.

  Hosted by Angela Saward, Wellcome Library Moving Image & Sound Collections. Lunch is sponsored by TKone. The meeting is open to members only.
April 17-27 Hotdocs, Canada http://www.hotdocs.ca/

Overview: http://www.hotdocs.ca/festival_overview.cfm

April 18-20

Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) conference - Information Professionals Adding Value, Palace Hotel, Manchester

www.aukml.org.uk/conf2008.htm

AUKML are FOCAL Affiliate members

7-8 May 2008

BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair (PBF) Business Design Centre, London, UK

The international market place for image buyers. Looking for new markets? PBF is the global market place where you can sell directly to image buyers. Discover new distribution channels and discuss content acquisition with image sellers.

www.bapla.org.uk

So far over 110 exhibitors have confirmed for 2008 - over 20% of these are exhibiting for the first time. Register now to make sure you keep up to date with new and fresh sources of imagery, as well as show news updates and seminar programme launch.

12-13 May

Digital Asset Management Symposium, New York, USA

www.DAMusers.com

& www.MOMsymposium.com

 

14-25 May Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France www.festival-cannes.fr
21 May 2008

FOCAL International Awards 2008, Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

Celebrating the use of footage archive images in the creative media

www.focalint.org/focalawards.htm

Tickets on sale from April 2008

Hosted by Lord Puttnam.

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE 21 DECEMBER 2007

4-8 Jun CEPIC Congress, Malta - European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage www.cepic.org/
8-11 Jun Banff TV Festival, Banff, Canada www.bwtvf.com/
June 9-13

FOCAL International Footage Training Week, London, UK

footage training week - from archive to exploitation -

A week long course designed for anyone from anywhere in the world who needs to know more about the footage industry - image archivists, footage researchers, production managers, producers, directors – whatever your media background, learn how to expand your knowledge and appreciation of the world of footage archives, their systems and uses

 

FULL DETAILS & SCHEDULE:

www.focalint.org/training.htm

 

TO REGISTER: Call FOCAL International giving full contact details: +44 (0)20 8423 5853 info@focalint.org

NB. You do NOT have to be a member FOCAL International to attend this course. The course is held in English.

Jun 12

FOCAL International Summer Footage Networking Event, aboard HMS Belfast, London

 

Ticket price (tbc) includes hot supper, drinks voucher and pay bar

Open to all media professionals interested in meeting FOCAL footage members - libraries, researchers, consultants and facilities

Tickets go on sale from May

info@focalint.org

16-23 Jun Silverdocs, Silver Spring MD USA www.silverdocs.com
15-21 Jun Cannes Lions 55th International Advertising Festival, Cannes, France www.canneslions.com
17-20 Jun BroadcastAsia SingaporeExpo www.broadcast-asia.com
Jun

DISCOP, Sofitel Atrium, Budapest, Hungary

Content and formats business Central & Eastern Europe

www.discop.com
24-27 Jun

Sunnyside of the Doc, La Rochelle, France

www.sunnysideofthedoc.com
25-26 Jun

Digital Asset Management Symposium, London, UK

www.DAMusers.com

& www.MOMsymposium.com

23-25 July

BRITDOC 08, Oxford, UK

 

www.britdoc.org/festival/delegate.php
Aug Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland, UK www.edfilmfest.org.uk/
12-16 Sept

IBC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The world of content, management, delivery. Includes FIAT Archive Day

www.ibc.org/
19-22 Sept 2008 FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2008 Copenhagen

www.fiatifta.org/conferences/

Special discounts available to FOCAL members

13-17 Oct

MIPCOM 2008, Cannes, France

The world's audiovisual content market


www.mipcom.com
16-26 Oct LISBON DOCS 2008 www.doclisboa.org
19-24 Oct

Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, UK

Wildscreen is the world's largest and most prestigious international wildlife and environmental film festival.

www.wildscreenfestival.org
Oct 27

UNESCO AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVE DAY

Celebrated throughout the world.

 

FOCAL International will be staging an event in association with FIAT/IFTA to support UNESCO’s Annual Audiovisual Archive Day marked to build global awareness of the issues at stake in preserving the audiovisual heritage.

10-11 Nov

Digital Asset Management Symposium, LA, USA

www.DAMusers.com

& www.MOMsymposium.com

Nov memorimage - REUS Baix Camp, Catalunya, Spain
"Today’s films with yesterday’s images"

www.memorimagefestival.com

 

Nov

Archidoc - workshop for archive footage based documentaries. Paris, France

 

For more information:

format.continue@femis.fr

www.femis.fr

5-9 Nov

Sheffield Docfest 2008, Sheffield, UK


 

www.sidf.co.uk

 

20-30 Nov IDFA, International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.idfa.nl/
TBC

World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, Rome, Italy

 

www.wcsfp.com
Dec FOCAL International Christmas Party, Cittie of Yorke pub, 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BS (opp. Chancery Lane tube)

 

Date to be confirmed

2009        
Jan

Archidoc - workshop for archive footage based documentaries. Biarritz, France

 

For more information:

format.continue@femis.fr

www.femis.fr

Jan / Feb

History Makers, New York, USA

International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers

www.historymakers2008.com

Join Headliners, Filmmakers, Commissioning Editors, Journalists and Broadcasters at the only international event that brings current affairs together with living history.

 

Jan Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA http://festival.sundance.org/
Jan / Feb

11th annual Realscreen Summit, Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, USA

 


www.realscreensummit.com.

Jan

NATPE, Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, USA

Now in its 46th year, the NATPE Conference & Exhibition is the world's first and America's largest marketplace solely dedicated to television content.

www.natpe.org
Jan /Feb DocsBarcelona, Terrassa, Spain DocsBarcelona
Jan / Feb Broadcast Live & Video Forum, Earls Court 2, London www.videoforum.co.uk
Feb Berlin Film Festival www.berlinale.de
Feb GSMA Mobile World Congress, Barcelona www.mobileworldcongress.com
Summer IAMHIST Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales

www.iamhist.org/conferences.html

 

Feb Australian International Documentary Conference
Perth, Western Australia
www.aidc.com.au
Feb

World Content Market, Prague - --a three-day international event for Television, Film, DVD/Home Video, Mobile, Interactive, Broadband and any other New Media content providers and buyers worldwide.

www.worldcontentmarket.com
March IPTV World Forum 08 Olympia, London, UK