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Ukrainian Viewers Will Soon See "The Innocent Man" from Korea

8 November 2016, 17:15

Korean formats conquer the Ukrainian market – 1+1 Production started shooting the adaptation of the Korean format The Innocent Man from KBS Global catalogue.

MIPCOM 2016: Ukraine keeps surprising

25 October 2016, 11:00

Annual international audiovisual content market MIPCOM finished – this year it was held on October 17-20 in Cannes. The market has set new records – MIPCOM gathered 2,000 companies from 108 countries, the total number of delegates reached 14,000.

Ukrainian Formats Continue Conquering Continents

17 October 2016, 11:12

Television projects from Ukraine are very popular all over the world and continue to travel globally. This is all thanks to UA Formats Catalogue – a unique Ukrainian project that introduces the complete catalogue of almost all Ukrainian formats ever made on local TV with a one common feature – a great success story of broadcast: either in terms of ratings, number of seasons on air or number of local adaptations in CIS countries or all of those factors combined (Take the Mike, The Chance, Crossing Europe, Wardrobe and others). The first presentation of UA Formats took place in autumn 2014 at FORMAT SHOW in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK, and soon after that Ukrainian projects have been repeatedly appreciated at other international content markets, attracting unprecedented interest from a number of foreign broadcasters and international distributors.

From Kyiv to the USA: Mission Control Media Will Develop the Winner Format of SMALL WORLD. BIG IDEAS Contest

26 September 2016, 14:23

Burbank-based producer Mission Control Media has picked up the format Come to Bed from distributor Small World IFT to develop for the US.

Participants of the #KіnoKraina initiative presented their new projects

23 September 2016, 16:53

On Friday, September 23, at the international media forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2016, the FILM.UA studio hosted a series of screenings of the new Ukrainian projects submitted by the producers from the #KіnoKraina initiative.

Ukraine introduces cash rebate 25% for foreign producers

23 September 2016, 08:45

September 22 can definitely be called historic for the Ukrainian production industry, as on that day the Ukrainian parliament finally adopted a new version of the law on state support of cinema and TV, which will radically change the relationships between the state and film and TV producers, and not only Ukrainian, but also foreign.

Bill №3081-d on Cinema and Presentations of New TV and Film Projects at the #KinoKraina Round Table

22 September 2016, 15:40

On September 23 at 11:00 the international media forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2016 will host a panel discussion on the results of the first year of #KіnoKraina – an initiative created by Ukrainian producers of film and television. There will also be screenings of new films and TV shows made by the group, which are scheduled to be released in the autumn-winter season. The round table will take place at the FILM.UA studio (Zakrevskiy Str. 22.), starting at 11:00.

Presales of Stolen Princess Animation Made in More Than a Dozen Territories

22 September 2016, 15:22

On September 22, the 7th conference “Television as Business”, held in the course of international media forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2016, opened with a panel discussion “Summit of Media Leaders”. The panel consisted of the President of the Ukrainian TV channel ICTV Aleksandr Bogutskiy, CEO of 1+1 Media Aleksandr Tkachenko, director of the media holding Media Group Ukraine Evgeniy Liashchenko, and co-founder of the FILM.UA Group Sergei Sozanovsky.

Ukraine Needs Single Currency for Channels and operators

21 September 2016, 16:38

Despite the problems with regulation, piracy and low ARPU, channel managements are also concerned with underreporting and its consequence – a lack of a single “currency”. As a result, the channels cannot clearly define the price at which to sell content to operators, and those, in turn, “play” with the numbers, deceiving the channels and the state.

Ukrainian Pay TV Market: Current Situation and Future Prospects

21 September 2016, 16:20

The median estimate voiced at the conference “Pay TV in Ukraine: Up & Up”, which was held on September 21 in the framework of the 6th annual forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK, was that there are about 4 million subscribers of pay-TV in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Literature as an Endless Source of Material for Film Adaptation

21 September 2016, 15:58

It is undisputable, that creation of screen adaptations and television versions of famous (and not) literary works is a very prominent international trend of recent decades. At the same time the works of Ukrainian authors – both classic and modern – until recently attracted little interest from filmmakers and TV producers. This information was presented by the Ukrainian literary scholar and critic Tatiana Trofimenko in her report “Cinematic Literature” at the international conference “Film Business”, held at the media forum KYIV MEDIA WEEK.

Ukraine is an Attractive Location for Foreign Productions

21 September 2016, 14:47

One of the largest and most well-known German film studios – Studio Babelsberg – is aiming to secure fruitful cooperation opportunities with Ukraine in the future.