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This October, at MIPCOM-08 in Cannes, Basque Audiovisual will present the most original formats
In early October a total of 19 companies from among the most outstanding components of the Basque audiovisual panorama will participate in MIPCOM, which will be held in Cannes (France), –the world’s largest audiovisual content market–, yet again under the unitary brand name Basque Audiovisual. The catalogue of products includes some of the most novel and successful formats produced in Euskadi, covering programmes of entertainment, documentaries, animation, and much more.
The Wit selects "The calendar of the year" by 3Koma as one of the most innovative formats
"The calendar of the year" by Basque production company 3koma (a partner of Eiken) and "El Sexómetro" by Four Luck Banana have been selected by the prestigious French company The Wit among the 30 most innovative TV premieres of the last six months anywhere in the world.
The presentation by Virginia Mouseler, Manager of The Wit , was one of the best attended at the latest MIPTV fair in Cannes last week. Under the title "Fresh TV Around the World", the talk featured the thirty most noteworthy TV premieres in the world
Basque Audiovisual at MIPTV´08
The Basque audiovisual industry is consolidating its international presence at the MIPTV in Cannes under the Basque Audiovisual brand. The commercial success of formats like “the Calendar of the year” or the animated feature film “Black to the moon” certify the quality of the content developed by Basque companies.
With MIPTV 08, the greatest television market in the world, about to conclude in Cannes, Eiken – Basque Audiovisual Cluster, which promoted the joint participation of companies in the sector under the Basque Audiovisual brand, has positively assessed this new incursion of Basque Audiovisual industry onto the international scene, which has helped consolidate the Basque Audiovisual brand on foreign markets.
EikenBANK
10 companies in the Basque Audiovisual sector have joined forces to foster creative talent in Euskadi through an innovative project led by Eiken, the Basque Audiovisual Cluster.
EikenBANK, a bank of projects in which non-professional talent and production companies interact, is the name of the programme which has just been set up by the Basque Audiovisual Cluster (www.eikenbank.com). The initiative’s special feature resides in the fact that thanks to the capacity for collaboration and competition of the 10 companies involved (3Koma, Baleuko, Bilbovision, Canal Bizkaia, EiTB, Irusoin, Jarkatza, K2000, Orio Produkzioak and Pausoka), each EikenBANK Project will be developed in all its stages until it reaches the market as an audiovisual product: the creative project of non-professionals will be developed by one or two collaborating production companies, and EiTB, as the sector’s driving company, will buy and broadcast it.
The international animated film industry will be present in Bilbao in the coming month of April
Eiken – Cluster Audiovisual de Euskadi has started the preparations, –with the technical assistance of Basque company Barton Films (a member of the cluster)–, to organise the International Animation Market “AnimaBasque-Business”, whose first edition is to be held in 2008, within the framework of the International Animation Festival, AnimaBasauri IV, with an aim to promoting access to new markets for Basque animation products.
