September 16 – 19, 2019 Hyatt Regency Kyiv, Ukraine
International media forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK combines the content market and range of conferences and B2B events for top players of TV, movie, digital and other media businesses. Since 2011 KMW has been an excellent networking platform for industry professionals from more than 25 countries, building a solid bridge between CEE, CIS and other parts of the world.
KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2017 (KMW 2017) will feature an unprecedented number of events that will take place in one place and at the same time, namely 14. Apart from the international content market and 5 traditional conferences, program of KMW 2017 will be supplemented with 8 special events: round tables, screenings, conferences and keynotes with participation of world-class experts in television and film business, representatives of state authorities of several countries, heads of international media industry organizations and foundations.
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"For almost four years media market of our country and region lives in conditions of increased turbulence and struggles with both internal and external challenges, building business models in line with the up-to-date realities. For balanced development of the industry it is necessary to build relations in the domestic market and business processes within the country properly, as well as to work consistently with foreign territories and partners. Based on these principles we created KMW 2017 program: all the activities of the forum, in one way or another, affect both aspects: the domestic market of Ukraine with its problems and possible solutions and the global media market, on which we are sure that Ukraine has great prospects", – comments Director of KYIV MEDIA WEEK Victoria Yarmoshchuk. |
TRADITIONAL KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2017 EVENTS LINE-UP:
One-day conference dedicated to format industry and screening of the newest and the most popular TV formats from all around the world. The event’s 8-year long history has proven that FORMAT SHOW became an excellent platform for indicating current trends of international format business.
This year FORMAT SHOW will bring the participants’ attention to an extensive line-up of new and the most relevant TV formats of various genres from prodcos and distributors from all over the world including all3media, BBC Worldwide, Red Arrow International, FremantleMedia, Dori Media, Small World IFT, Global Agency and others. Also, the conference’s program traditionally includes panel discussions, interesting case studies, and reports reflecting the global format industry trends.
In particular, CEO of CEETV (Bulgaria) Georgi R. Chakarov will make a presentation ‘Formats that defined 2017’. Co-chairman of FRAPA (the Netherlands) and CEO of Missing Link Media (Denmark) Jan Salling will present a special report: ‘10 things you should know before you sell your formats internationally’. An international panel discussion on ‘Cracking the format industry: what one can learn from big format exporters’ will be moderated by Ed Waller, editorial director of the British company C21 Media. A special screening and presentation from the Knowledge Partner of KMW 2017 K7 Media (UK) will be devoted to a special trend this year – the reboot of old format hits around the world.
FORMAT SHOW will be held on September 18 at Hyatt Regency Kyiv, BALLROOM conference hall.
Since its inception in 2008, the annual Kyiv-based conference Film Business: Challenges, Features, Opportunities has become a popular meeting point for film industry professionals from all over the world, a platform aimed at business networking, launching new partnerships, sharing experience as well as discussing current film industry development issues both in the region and worldwide with special focus on film co-production. 2017 edition of Film Business conference is supported by Ukrainian State Film Agency.
This year’s conference program includes: analysis of the distribution European-produced films on domestic markets; reports on the experience of the Ukrainian project's withdrawal to the international market and the search for foreign partners, as well as on industrial platforms at international festivals and the opportunities that they provide to producers; the success story of the largest Czech film studio Barrandov Studio and much more.
The conference includes presentation of the platform for Sino-European cooperation Bridging The Dragon and a report on the features of working with China's production and distribution companies. Speaker – head of Bridging The Dragon, Cristiano Bortone. He will also present the case study of the Coffee project, the first official co-production of China and Italy.
The program of the event also presents several interesting case studies. Producer Kristian Taska will tell the story of success of the Estonian comedy Class Reunion (Klassikokkutulek) that grossed a million Euros on domestic market with a budget a bit more than of €100,000. Producer from Belgium Jean-Yves Roubin will share the secret of not only the theatrical but also the festival success of the French-Belgian horror movie Raw (Grave).
Gulin Ustun, head of the industry platform Meetings on the Bridge at İstanbul Film Festival will tell about the terms of cooperation with Turkey and about the country's special interest in producing films together with cinematographers from neighbouring countries.
Particular attention will be paid to state support for co-production projects. The head of Ukrainian State Film Agency Philip Illienko, as well as the producers of the Slovak-Ukrainian film ‘The Line’ (Čiara) and the Italian-Ukrainian comedy ‘Easy’ will tell about the peculiarities of co-producing international projects and the difficulties that co-producers may face.
Film Business conference will be held on September 20 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, PARIS conference hall, ground floor.
International forum for documentary projects co-production organized in cooperation with Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network (B2B Doc) expands KMW’s activities aimed at promoting co-production in the CEE region and beyond
The core of the event’s program is the pitching of documentary projects from different countries that have a potential for international co-production (pre-selected by B2B Doc). In addition, an international expert will deliver a special report on documentary films co-production and will present a case study of a successful co-production project. And, of course, projects representatives will hold individual meetings with potential partners interested in cooperation.
Invited experts: producers from Baltic and Scandinavian countries looking for co-production projects, representatives of European educational platforms and programs for developing and launching documentary projects from the countries of Eastern Europe; commissioners of European TV channels, interested in co-production and co-financing of documentary content. Experts will not only give their feedback on each of the presented projects and recommendations for their development, but also will discuss possible partnerships with the participants they consider the most promising ones.
B2B Doc CoProduction Meetings will be held on September 18 at Hyatt Regency Kyiv, PARIS conference hall
This year, the traditional conference Pay TV 2017 will be held under the motto Carpe Diem! And it's not accidental, because the pay-TV industry is constantly changing and digital transformation is happening right now!
The conference will consider the following topics: assessment of the situation after the changes in the must-carry; development of non-linear services in Ukraine; peculiarities of the regulation of new media and gaps in the current legislation; fighting piracy; the effect of the analogue signal shut down on the pay-TV market; encryption of TV channels signals on the satellite, etc.
In the course of the conference, there will be two panel discussions of great importance for the industry. Participants of the first one – ‘Does the pay-TV market exist in Ukraine?’ – will be Yaroslav Pakholchuk, Fedir Grechaninov, Tetyana Popova and Vadym Sidorenko. The speakers of the second one – ‘Davids and Goliaths of Ukrainian advertising market: who will get the money?’ – are Sergiy Sozanovskiy, Sergiy Boyko, Igor Koval, Andriy Partyka and Valeriy Varenitsa.
Pay TV in Ukraine will be held on September 20 at LONDON conference hall in Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel.
The conference Television as Business 2017 is the eighth annual meeting of the leaders of the television industry, where the leading television brands and the best media experts discuss the most important problems of the industry, talk about recipes for solving these problems and share their experience in successfully implementing media projects.
The conference program will be opened with Media Leaders’ Summit, which will gather Aleksandr Bohutskiy (Director-President of ICTV Channel), Oleksandr Tkachenko (CEO of 1+1 Media), Evgen Lyaschenko (Director of Media Group Ukraine), Hanna Bezliudna (Head of Inter Media Group) and Sergiy Sozanovsky (Co-founder of FILM.UA Group).
In the course of the event, four panel discussions will take place: ‘Activity, trends and forecasts of the Ukrainian advertising market’, ‘Calling news formats: viewer’s weariness from the bad news’, ‘Interaction of the TV market and the PAY TV market’, ‘Funny profits: the secrets of the success of Ukrainian comedy TV shows’. In addition, the conference participants will be presented with reports: ‘How to get our TV out of the post-soviet zombie forest and live happily’ and ‘TV people vs Digital people, or just human being’.
The conference Television as Business will be held on September 21 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv, BALLROOM conference hall.
KMW Content Market represents effective and convenient networking platform for buyers and sellers of audiovisual content from more than 25 countries, connecting CIS and EE region and other parts of the world.
KMW Content Market 2017 sellers: international production and distribution companies including such media giants as FrematleMedia (UK), Global Agency (Turkey), Red Arrow International (Germany), BBC Worldwide (UK), Sky Vision (UK), all3media international (UK), Talpa Global (The Netherlands), Banijay Rights (UK), Small World IFT (USA), CITVC (China) and many others. Buyers - broadcasters and prodcos from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Baltic States, Georgia, Moldova and other countries of the region.
Content Market will be held on September 19-20 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv, BALLROOM conference hall.
A LINE-UP OF KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2017 ADDITIONAL EVENTS:
For the first time in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK a special event will be held – the Ukrainian-Chinese roundtable, organized with the support of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine and with the participation of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ukraine.
Top managers of Chinese and Ukrainian media and production companies, representatives of the film industry of both countries, industry associations, as well as representatives of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ukraine and the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine will gather at the roundtable.
Taking into account the interest and willingness to cooperate in the field of production and distribution of cinema and television content of both countries, experts will discuss the current state of the content industry of Ukraine and China, the realities and prospects of partnership between the countries.
Roundtable discussion Content industry of Ukraine and China: prospects for cooperation development will be held on September 18 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, LONDON conference hall.
The Ukrainian-Korean roundtable is a traditional special event in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK, as the deepening of cultural and economic cooperation between Ukraine and the Republic of Korea remains one of the priority directions of international development of both countries.
Last year has become quite successful for strengthening cooperation in the media industry between the countries: several important events have been held, joint projects have been launched, a visit of the Ukrainian delegation to the Republic of Korea has taken place. This year, representatives of Korean industry associations, media companies and government agencies, the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine and top managers of key Ukrainian broadcasters and prodcos will reunite together to discuss the results of joint work, exchange experiences and find new ideas and forms of cooperation in all areas of the media.
Roundtable Ukraine and Korea: results of cooperation and search for new forms of partnership in the media will be held on September 19 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, PARIS conference hall.
For the first time in the course of KMW a special event dedicated to cooperation between Ukraine and Moldova will take place. The project is organized with the support of the Embassy of the United States in Moldova.
The event will be aimed at sharing experience and discussing opportunities for cooperation between the countries, including coproduction, content distribution, and common educational programs.
Roundtable Production industry in Ukraine and Moldova: sharing experience and discovering opportunities to cooperate in an evolving legislative environment will be held on September 19 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, LONDON conference hall.
The forum is organized by Ukrainian Motion Picture Association with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency and with the participation of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting and the National Bureau of the European Commission's Program ‘Creative Europe’.
The forum is dedicated to the process of Ukraine’s integration into the European media market, the development of partnership between Ukraine and the European Union countries in the sphere of creative industries. It is organized to present to the participants of the Ukrainian media market the opportunities provided by the Creative Europe program, as well as to establish a dialogue between state authorities and representatives of creative community to develop an algorithm of actions needed for Ukraine’s full membership in the program.
It’s worth mentioning that the financial support for Creative Europe projects ranges between EUR 200,000 and EUR 2 million. Since 2015, Ukraine has joined Creative Europe program on preferential terms. To gain full membership and access to the full range of the program’s support schemes it is necessary to complete the procedure of bringing the national legislation in the audiovisual sphere in line with EU legislation.
The Ukrainian Creative Europe Forum will be held on September 20, at Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, PARIS conference hall.
Movies based on literary works is an international trend. This report is an overview of modern Ukrainian literature having potential for screen adaptation in various forms – feature films, animated films and drama series.
For the first time the section focusing on literature in cinema was included into the program of the international conference Film Business in the course of last year’s KYIV MEDIA WEEK. It was followed by a large panel discussion dedicated to the current screen adaptations of literary works in Ukraine organized at Book Arsenal. This year, the review of the latest book releases of 2016-2017 will be a separate event at KMW 2017.
Special report Cinematographic literature will be held on September 19 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, LONDON conference hall.
Special conference from FILM.UA Faculty in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK.
Target audience of the event: representatives of TV channels, prodcos, YouTubers, marketers. In the course of the conference the topics of digital content and YouTube channels will be considered as a way to monetize content, a marketing tool, a channel for delivering content, as well as the question of the future of original content of VOD platforms in Ukraine, etc. Among the speakers: representatives of companies – leaders of the industry.
Master class on digital content will be held on September 19 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, LONDON conference hall.
Two years ago, MRM and Media Group Ukraine launched a joint project TViy Serial (aka ‘Your TV Series’) to support the development of series production in Ukraine.
At KMW 2017, in the course of this initiative, a special event Series. How-to will be held. Among the speakers of the event: VP, original programming and production at HBO Central Europe Johnathan Young, Israeli producer Maria Feldman – author of the idea and producer of the series False Flag, the producer of the Israeli unit of the American TV series Homeland and the producer of the series Absentia. Also there will be a representative of the platform for development of film and TV projects MIDPOINT, Eliška MALEČKOVÁ and Andra Sheffer, head of the Canadian Independent Production Fund that supports production and promotion of web series – a fairly new and yet little-known but certainly a perspective format of audiovisual content.
Special event Series. How-to will be held September 19 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, PARIS conference hall.
This conference for rights holders is a meeting place for business owners, top-managers and lawyers of Ukrainian and international companies that will provide practical solutions, promote constructive dialogue and joint decision-making on further actions on protecting intellectual property rights. Organizers of the conference – Clean Sky Initiative.
During the conference a step-by-step instruction ‘What to do if your intellectual property rights are violated will be presented’. Also at the event a special focus will be given to the specifics of monitoring and methods of preventing financing piracy, discussing the issue of intellectual property protection in Ukrainian legislation, presentation of monitoring of illegal content placement and examining international cases of combating piracy.
The conference for the rightsholders will be held on September 18 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel, LONDON conference hall.
KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2017 will be held on September 18-22 at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel (5 Alla Tarasova Str.). Detailed program and dates of events are available on the official website.
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