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Miracle Screenings. April 2009. No.26 - MIPTV 2009 issue
Viewpoints: Acquisition Strategies
Adalat Aliyev, President, Lider Media Holding, Azerbaijan
Adam Urban, Founder and Chairman, Uploaded.TV, Netherlands
Adel Sammakieh, Manager, Tele-Pictures Promoters International, Lebanon
Agnieszka Gyralska, Acquisitions and Sales Manager, Digital Partners Sp. z o.o., Poland
Alexandra Hanna, Business Development Manager, Blue August Creations, United Kingdom
Ana Uremovic, Program Coordinator, Otvorena Televizija Zagreb, Croatia
Artur Dmochowski, Channel Director, TVP Historia, Poland
Awni Al Lababidi, Managing Partner, Founoon Film Distribution, UAE - Dubai
Beatrice Riesenfelder, Head of Sales and Acquisitions, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF, Austria
Björn Jensen, Managing Director, Ginger Foot Films, Germany
Bojana Maljevic, Head of Acquisitions & Programming / Co-Owner, Happy TV, Serbia
Caroline Tyre, TELETOON Canada inc., Canada
Claudia Schorr, Vice President Sales and Acquisitions, RTL II, Germany
Dirk Schweitzer, Executive Vice President Program Acquisitions & Sales, RTL Television GmbH, Germany
Domenico Moretti, Managing Director, keitai, Italy
Elinor Schops, International business development director, Mobile1, Israel
Emma Masoni, Manager Global Acquisitions, Fox International Channels, UK
Esther Van Der Brink, Head of Acquitions, SBS Belgium, Belgium
Fasahat Aziz, Associate Manager, International Acquisitions, GEO TV Networks, Pakistan
Galya Halaui, VP Program Acquisition and International Strategy, Zebra TV Channels: Hop!, Luli and Parents Channel, Israel
Gunawan, Program Acquisition Search Section Head, PT.Cakrawala Andalas Televisi (antv), Indonesia
Hatice Soysev Kolat, General Manager, Kanal D Romania, Romania
Hubert Ornass-Kubacki, Editor in Chief, TVP Historia, Poland
Igor Caban, Programming Director, Kabel Plus, s.r.o., Slovakia
Ines Nastasoiu, Acquisitions Manager, ACASA TV, Romania
Jacques Mathieu, Vice-president, programming, Ztele, Astral Media, Canada
Jaime Fontan, Productions' Manager, Aragon Television, Spain
Jennifer Tucker, Head of Content IPTV & Entertainment Services, eircom Limited, Ireland
Joanna Pogorzelska, Channel Director, PLANETE, Poland
Joaquin Garcia, Imagenio, Telefonica of Spain, Spain
Johanna Salmela, Acquisition Executive, Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE Television), Finland
Judith Michel, Content Services Sale Manager, XDC, Belgium
Laszlo Cselenyi, President, DUNA TV, Hungary
Leland Ling, CEO, Beijing Office of LIC Australia, China
Liliana Slavova, Program Director, TV2, Bulgaria
Lucy Pryke, Acquisitions, Teachers TV, United Kingdom
Magdalena Borowska, Documentaries Buyer, Telewizja Polska TVP INFO, Poland
Mazen A. Rifka, Head of Acquisition & Rights, Al Jazeera Children's Channel, Qatar
Mehmet Demirhan, Head of Acquisitions, KANAL 7 and ULKE TV, Turkey
Nicolas Deschamps, Head of Acquisitions department, ARTE France, France
Nicole Fortier, 2T3M Television Inc, Canada
Nina Lorgen Flemmen, Head of Acquisition, TVNORGE and FEM, Norway
Orsetta Violante Balsamo, Head of Acquisitions, Endemol Italia, Italy
Preena Bhatia, Head of Acquisitions, JimJam, United Kingdom
Rachel Job, Co-productions & Acquisitions Executive, HISTORY TM & Military History, The History Channel, United Kingdom
Raquel Benitez, CEO, Comet Entertainment Inc., Canada
Ruediger Boess, Senior Vice President, Group Programming Acquisitions, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Germany
Rupi Sagoo, Director of Programming, Fox International Channels Asia
Sebastian Debertin, Head of Fiction, Acquisition & Coproduction, Der Kinderkanal von ARD und ZDF, Germany
Simonetta Polese, Buyer, Project Development, Overcom Srl, Italy
Sonja Kokovic, Programming Manager, Vesanima D.O.O, Serbia
Sviatlana Ramanchykava, Chief of Acquisition Department, Salmon Distribution, Belarus
Tanja Saudet, CEO, Saudet Media, France

Viewpoints: acquisitions strategies

Magdalena Borowska
Documentaries Buyer
Telewizja Polska TVP INFO
Poland

What are your acquisition strategies for 2009?

Acquisition strategies of TVP INFO are related to the latest news and programs concerning political, social and business subjects. We're interested mainly in current affairs documentaries. New 24 hours free satellite service of TVP INFO carried by ASTRA 1KR has been launched on March 2, 2009, for polish viewers living abroad, in polish language only. We look for docs from all over the world, however, according to law; more than 50 % should be European. We work with both large companies and with smaller independent distributors and producers.

What genres are you looking for?

TVP INFO viewers are very demanding, we are looking for the best, and festival awarded programs dealing with both global and local issues. For 2009, we will air, among others: "I.O.U.S.A.", dir. by Patrick Creadon; "Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz", dir. by Jacques Sarasin; "Denied Entry" dir. by Kate Nielson; "Let's Make Money" dir. by Erwin Wagenhoffer; "hronicle of a new global Crisis" dir. by Marc GARMIRIAN and others.

What rights are you looking for?

We look for Terrestrial Free TV rights and we ask for possible Satellite TV rights for Poland and other territories covered by TVP INFO via satellites, cable nets and digital platforms, aired in the Polish language only.

What products will be on demand during MIPTV 2009?

MIPDOC and MIPTV are an excellent opportunity for me to meet new business partners – both distributors and producers, to discuss with our regular collaborators their most recent offer and our current programming needs. We are always in search of new titles, the best products of markets.


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