The
MIPCOM 2016 Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch once again
features some of the industry’s heavy-hitters discussing the role of
women, both on and off-screen, Indian Television reports.
The
fifth edition of MIPCOM’s annual thought leadership and networking
event for the most influential women shaping the future of TV and
entertainment is run in partnership with A+E Networks and Lifetime,
along with The Hollywood Reporter.
The global entertainment content market, MIPCOM takes place in Cannes, France, from 17-20 October. The Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch is scheduled for Monday 17 October, at the Hotel Majestic.
The
event will be introduced by A+E Networks chief marketing officer Amanda
Hill, who will take a deep dive into the female experience, uncovering
and highlighting the important issues facing women today via a recent
Lifetime study. In addition, Hill will discuss Lifetime’s launch of a
new multiplatform initiative called The Fempire, which targets
fourth-wave feminists. Its mission is to create content for women, by
women, about women, and to engage with them 24/7.
This
will be followed by a presentation from Emmy® Award-nominated Constance
Zimmer and fellow actress Shiri Appleby, who both star in Lifetime’s
“UnREAL”. They will talk about their respective roles in the series, and
how it ties into Lifetime’s ethos and what female empowerment means
today.
The
Women in Global Entertainment programme continues with an inspirational
conversation between two leading figures of the film and TV industries,
Betsy Beers, Partner at Shondaland, and pioneering French Director,
Screenwriter, and Producer Euzhan Palcy.
A
multi-award-winning producer, Beers is Executive Producer of ABC
Studios’ hit series “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal,” “How to Get Away With
Murder,” and “The Catch,” along with the upcoming new Untitled
Shondaland Project (formerly known as "Still Star-Crossed"). In 2008,
Beers partnered with Shonda Rhimes and her company Shondaland to develop
and produce additional feature film and television projects. Prior to
her exclusive foray into television, Beers served as President of the
Mark Gordon Company, President of director Mike Newell’s Dogstar Films,
and developed and produced such films as “200 Cigarettes,” “High
Fidelity,” and “Pushing Tin” among many others. In 2014, Beers and
Rhimes were honoured by the Directors Guild of America with the coveted
Diversity Award for their commitment to diversity hiring and their long
record of providing opportunities to women and minorities. (Rhimes is
also being honoured as MIPCOM 2016 Personality of the Year.)
Euzhan
Palcy(above left), is an award-winning filmmaker, and the first black female
director produced by a major Hollywood studio, through her
apartheid-themed feature movie, “A Dry White Season” (MGM, 1989). She is
also the first black person ever to win a Cesar, the French Film
Academy Awards, and the only woman ever to have directed Marlon Brando.
Through films such as “Sugar Cane Alley,” “Ruby Bridges” and “The
Killing Yard,” her work explores themes of race, gender, and social
justice from a decidedly feminist and humanist perspective. In 2016,
Palcy received the Honorary Award of the first Positive Cinema Week of
Cannes, and The Wrap included her on its list of 17 Most Influential
Women Who Revolutionised Hollywood. Palcy will unveil exclusive images
in Cannes from an interview she did with the late South African
President in a segment entitled “Nelson Mandela and the Role of Women,”
an extract from a 25-minute filmed interview.
“For
the fifth edition of MIPCOM’s Women in Global Entertainment Power
Lunch, we are delighted to welcome a line-up of women who are behind
some of the most creative and challenging content in contemporary
television. The summit is thus continuing its mission as a key event for
those women who are shaping the future of TV and entertainment,” said
Reed MIDEM’s Television Division director Laurine Garaude
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