Banff World Television Festival
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The Banff World Television Festival is among the most important international media events in Canada. Held in the Canadian Rockies at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, the Festival is dedicated to world television programming and its creation and development. Celebrities, writers, directors, and producers from PBS, BBC, NHK, ARTE, Channel Four, ABC, Sony Pictures, HBO, CBC, NFB, SBS, and many other broadcasters and production companies attend the annual event.
The Festival combines a prestigious international program competition, the Banff Rockie Awards [1], with a comprehensive conference agenda. As well as honouring excellence in international television, professionals from around the world participate in seminars, Master Classes, and pitching opportunities. Described as "the Olympics of television" [2], the Festival provides a global platform for industry members to discuss and debate, and explore current issues, challenges and trends.
For its 29th year in 2008, the Festival will open on June 8 and continue through June 11.
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- ^ Past winners include PBS for The Hobart Shakespeareans, BBC and HBO for The Children of Beslan, NHK for Children Full of Life, BBC and WGBH for Bleak House, Damian Pettigrew for Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, and Martin Scorsese for No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.
- ^ Cited in ARTE Magazine, Issue 39, 23 November 2006, p. 30.
