Canneseries Festival to Remain Standalone Event in Spring Without MipTV; Canal+ to Return as Sponsor
15.04.2024 - 15:38
/ variety.com
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent While MipTV is relocating to London with a revamped format, Canneseries Festival is sticking to its guns and will remain as a standalone event in the spring on the Croisette. Benoit Louvet, the managing director of Canneseries, told Variety in an exclusive interview that the festival will return in 2025 on April 22-27 with its major partners, the city of Cannes, the region PACA and the Vivendi-owned pay TV group Canal+.
The sixth edition, which wrapped on April 10, hosted the world premieres of highly anticipated international shows including Disney+’s “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” and AppleTV+’s “Franklin,” with big stars such as Daniel Bruhl and Michael Douglas on the ground. Canneseries has run alongside MipTV since its inception in 2019, and experimented as a standalone event once before, in the fall of 2020 after MipTV was canceled due to the pandemic.
When MipTV organizer RX France announced its decision to move to London, many in the industry expected Canneseries to move to the fall in order to run alongside Mipcom, which is still considered a key TV market. But Louvet said it wouldn’t have been feasible for Canneseries to take place simultaneously.
“We studied the possibility of moving to October to run in parallel with Mipcom, but it didn’t make sense because both Mipcom and Canneseries are planning to expand significantly in 2025 and are looking to use the same venues inside the Palais des Festivals,” Louvet said. “With Mip moving to London, Mipcom is bound to get much bigger, and we also have large ambitions.” In principle, festivals benefit from being tied to markets by building some industry presence and momentum around world premiere screenings and reviews — as is the
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