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| 2008 |
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| April 5-6 |
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MIPdoc Cannes, France
The world's audiovisual content market |
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www.mipdoc.com
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| April 7-11 |
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MIPtv featuring MILIA Cannes, France
The world's audiovisual content market |
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www.miptv.com
www.milia.com |
| April 11-17 |
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NAB Show, Las Vegas, USA |
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www.nabshow.com/ |
| April 15 |
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FOCAL International's Annual General Meeting at 1200, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
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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 |
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Hotdocs, Canada |
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http://www.hotdocs.ca/
Overview: http://www.hotdocs.ca/festival_overview.cfm |
| April 18-20 |
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Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) conference - Information Professionals Adding Value, Palace Hotel, Manchester
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www.aukml.org.uk/conf2008.htm
AUKML are FOCAL Affiliate members |
| 7-8 May 2008 |
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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.
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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 |
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Digital Asset Management Symposium, New York, USA |
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www.DAMusers.com
& www.MOMsymposium.com
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| 14-25 May |
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Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France |
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www.festival-cannes.fr |
| 21 May 2008 |
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FOCAL International Awards 2008, Royal Lancaster Hotel, London
Celebrating the use of footage archive images in the creative media |
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www.focalint.org/focalawards.htm
Tickets on sale from April 2008
Hosted by Lord Puttnam.
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE 21 DECEMBER 2007 |
| 4-8 Jun |
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CEPIC Congress, Malta - European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage |
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www.cepic.org/ |
| 8-11 Jun |
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Banff TV Festival, Banff, Canada |
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www.bwtvf.com/ |
| June 9-13 |
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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
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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 |
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FOCAL International Summer Footage Networking Event, aboard HMS Belfast, London
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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 |
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Silverdocs, Silver Spring MD USA |
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www.silverdocs.com |
| 15-21 Jun |
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Cannes Lions 55th International Advertising Festival, Cannes, France |
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www.canneslions.com |
| 17-20 Jun |
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BroadcastAsia SingaporeExpo |
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www.broadcast-asia.com |
| Jun |
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DISCOP, Sofitel Atrium, Budapest, Hungary
Content and formats business Central & Eastern Europe |
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www.discop.com |
| 24-27 Jun |
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Sunnyside of the Doc, La Rochelle, France |
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www.sunnysideofthedoc.com |
| 25-26 Jun |
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Digital Asset Management Symposium, London, UK
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www.DAMusers.com
& www.MOMsymposium.com |
| 23-25 July |
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BRITDOC 08, Oxford, UK
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www.britdoc.org/festival/delegate.php |
| Aug |
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Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland, UK |
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www.edfilmfest.org.uk/ |
| 12-16 Sept |
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IBC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The world of content, management, delivery. Includes FIAT Archive Day |
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www.ibc.org/ |
| 19-22 Sept 2008 |
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FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2008 Copenhagen |
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www.fiatifta.org/conferences/
Special discounts available to FOCAL members |
| 13-17 Oct |
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MIPCOM 2008, Cannes, France
The world's audiovisual content market
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www.mipcom.com |
| 16-26 Oct |
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LISBON DOCS 2008 |
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www.doclisboa.org |
| 19-24 Oct |
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Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, UK
Wildscreen is the world's largest and most prestigious international wildlife and environmental film festival. |
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www.wildscreenfestival.org |
| Oct 27 |
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UNESCO AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVE DAY
Celebrated throughout the world.
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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.
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| 10-11 Nov |
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Digital Asset Management Symposium, LA, USA |
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www.DAMusers.com
& www.MOMsymposium.com |
| Nov |
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memorimage - REUS Baix Camp, Catalunya, Spain
"Today’s films with yesterday’s images" |
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www.memorimagefestival.com
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| Nov |
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Archidoc - workshop for archive footage based documentaries. Paris, France
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For more information:
format.continue@femis.fr
www.femis.fr
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| 5-9 Nov |
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Sheffield Docfest 2008, Sheffield, UK
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www.sidf.co.uk
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| 20-30 Nov |
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IDFA, International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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www.idfa.nl/ |
| TBC |
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World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, Rome, Italy
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www.wcsfp.com |
| Dec |
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FOCAL International Christmas Party, Cittie of Yorke pub, 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BS (opp. Chancery Lane tube)
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Date to be confirmed
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| Jan |
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Archidoc - workshop for archive footage based documentaries. Biarritz, France
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For more information:
format.continue@femis.fr
www.femis.fr
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| Jan / Feb |
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History Makers, New York, USA
International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers |
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www.historymakers2008.com
Join Headliners, Filmmakers, Commissioning Editors, Journalists and Broadcasters at the only international event that brings current affairs together with living history.
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| Jan |
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Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA |
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http://festival.sundance.org/ |
| Jan / Feb |
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11th annual Realscreen Summit, Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, USA
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www.realscreensummit.com.
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| Jan |
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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. |
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www.natpe.org |
| Jan /Feb |
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DocsBarcelona, Terrassa, Spain |
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DocsBarcelona
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| Jan / Feb |
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Broadcast Live & Video Forum, Earls Court 2, London |
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www.videoforum.co.uk |
| Feb |
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Berlin Film Festival |
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www.berlinale.de |
| Feb |
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GSMA Mobile World Congress, Barcelona |
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www.mobileworldcongress.com |
| Summer |
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IAMHIST Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales
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www.iamhist.org/conferences.html
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| Feb |
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Australian International Documentary Conference
Perth, Western Australia |
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www.aidc.com.au |
| Feb |
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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. |
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www.worldcontentmarket.com |
| March |
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IPTV World Forum 08 Olympia, London, UK
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