The annual International Emmy World Television Festival, which always takes place the weekend before the International Emmy Awards Gala, is set for Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18, at the New York Sofitel Hotel. The event which features Panels & Presentations of the International Emmy Award Nominees, is a unique showcase of the best television in the world including shows and talent from 15 countries across 9 categories. Representatives of the nominated programs from: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain and The United Kingdom will join Academy Members, Jurors, Sponsors and their guests for panels, presentations and networking events. Over 600 international television & media executives are expected to attend.<\/p>\n
“We’re looking forward to celebrating the 2012 International Emmy Award Nominees at our Festival, a one of a kind networking industry event where one can watch some of the best television in the world and meet with the producers of these shows.”, said Bruce L. Paisner, President & CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.<\/p>\n
2012 Festival Partners include: Greater Fort Lauderdale\/Broward Office of Film & Entertainment; who will host the traditional Sunday Board & Members Breakfast and present its latest tax incentive programs; Home Box Office (HBO) which will host once again the Festival Closing Cocktail as well as Azteca; CCTV Documentary; Deluxe Media; Dori Media Group; Ernst & Young; Frankfurt, Kurnit,Klein & Selz; Microsoft; NRW Media Authorities (Film und Media Fund and LfM Media Authority of North Rhine Westphalia), Phoenix Satellite Television; Sofitel Luxury Hotels; Tavalon Tea and TV Globo.<\/p>\n
Ricardo B. Salinas, Chairman of Azteca and 2012 Gala Chair, will host the traditional kick-off cocktail party on Friday, November 16th. Liu Changle, Chairman of Phoenix Satellite Television will Chair the Festival.<\/p>\n
The 2012 International Emmy\u00ae Awards Nominees:<\/p>\n
Arts Programming<\/p>\n
All My Life – Cartola
\nTV Globo \/ Rede Globo
\nBrazil<\/p>\n
BLUE MAN
\nWOWOW Inc.
\nJapan<\/p>\n
Queen: Days of Our Lives
\nEagle Rock Entertainment\/Queen Productions Ltd\/Globe Films UK<\/p>\n
Songs of War
\nZDF German Television\/ ARTE \/ A & O B\u00fcro
\nGermany<\/p>\n
Best Performance by an Actor<\/p>\n
Arthur Acu\u00f1a in The Kitchen Musical
\nThe Group Entertainment
\nSingapore<\/p>\n
Dar\u00edo Grandinetti in Televisi\u00f3n por la Inclusi\u00f3n
\nON TV Contenidos
\nArgentina<\/p>\n
Jason Isaacs in Case Histories
\nRuby Film and Television \/ Monastic Productions
\nUK<\/p>\n
Stein Winge in Norwegian Cozy
\nTordenfilm AS\/ NRK \/ NFI \/ Nordisk Film & TV Fond \/ YLE
\nNorway<\/p>\n
Zhu Yawen in Flying Eagle
\nH.Brothers Tianyi Movie & TV Co.,Ltd \/ Beijing Yechen Film & TV Cultural Development Co., Ltd
\nPR China<\/p>\n
Best Performance by an Actress
\nSidse Babett Knudsen in Government
\nDR
\nDenmark<\/p>\n
Cristina Banegas in Televisi\u00f3n por la Inclusi\u00f3n
\nON TV Contenidos
\nArgentina<\/p>\n
Rina Sa in Zhong Guo Di<\/p>\n
Phoenix Satellite TV in association with Sino Television \/ Liaoning Seven-star Film \/ Dongyang Tangyun Fenghua Culture Communications
\nHong Kong, China<\/p>\n
Joanna Vanderham in The Runaway
\nBSkyB \/ Company Pictures\/ Sky 1
\nUK<\/p>\n
Comedy<\/p>\n
Absolutely Fabulous
\nBBC Productions \/ Saunders and French Production
\nUK<\/p>\n
The Invisible Woman
\nTV Globo \/ Rede Globo
\nBrazil<\/p>\n
Spy
\nBSkyB \/ Hat Trick \/ Sky 1
\nUK<\/p>\n
What if?
\nShelter
\nBelgium<\/p>\n
Documentary<\/p>\n
Across Land, Across Sea
\nThe Chosunilbo
\nSouth Korea<\/p>\n
Hitler’s Escape
\nAnima Films \/ The History Channel Latin America
\nArgentina<\/p>\n
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
\nBBC \/ KEO Films
\nUK<\/p>\n
Wettlauf Zum S\u00fcdpol (Race to the South Pole)
\nLoopfilm GmbH \/ ZDF
\nGermany<\/p>\n
Drama Series<\/p>\n
Braquo
\nCapa Drama \/ Canal + \/ Bad Company \/ Big Nose
\nFrance<\/p>\n
ICAC Investigators 2011
\nRTHK \/ ICAC
\nHong Kong, China<\/p>\n
The Kitchen Musical
\nThe Group Entertainment
\nSingapore<\/p>\n
The Slap
\nMatchbox Pictures \/ ABC \/ Screen Australia
\nAustralia<\/p>\n
The Social Leader
\nArtear \/ Pol-ka
\nArgentina<\/p>\n
Non-Scripted Entertainment<\/p>\n
The Amazing Race Australia
\nSeven Productions-Seven Network (Operations) Ltd. \/ Active TV \/ ABC Studios
\nAustralia<\/p>\n
The Challenger Muaythai
\nImagine Group Pte Ltd \/ The Group Entertainment
\nSingapore<\/p>\n
El Hormiguero (The Anthill)<\/p>\n
7yaccion \/ Antena 3
\nSpain<\/p>\n
Planeta Extremo (Extreme Planet)
\nTV Globo
\nBrazil<\/p>\n
Telenovela<\/p>\n
The Fire of the Rose
\nSP Televis\u00e3o \/ SIC
\nPortugal<\/p>\n
Holy Remedy
\nPlural Entertainment Portugal
\nPortugal<\/p>\n
The Illusionist
\nTV Globo \/ Rede Globo
\nBrazil<\/p>\n
Iron Daughters-in-Law
\nMBC
\nSouth Korea<\/p>\n
TV Movie\/Mini-Series<\/p>\n
Black Mirror
\nChannel Four Television \/ Zeppotron
\nUK<\/p>\n
Early Autumn
\nChubu-Nippon Broadcasting \/ Shochiku Co. Ltd.
\nJapan<\/p>\n
The Good Men
\nTV Globo \/ Rede Globo \/ Casa de Cinema de POA
\nBrazil<\/p>\n
L’Infiltr\u00e9 (The Lying Game)
\nBreakout Films \/ Aperto Films \/ Sirena Film \/ Canal+
\nFrance <\/p>\n
About the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences The annual International Emmy World Television Festival, which always takes place the weekend before the International Emmy Awards Gala, is set for Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18, at the New York Sofitel Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24807,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24806\/revisions\/24807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a membership based organization comprised of leading media and entertainment figures from over 50 countries and 500 companies from all sectors of television including internet, mobile and technology. The Academy’s yearly schedule of events includes the prestigious International Emmy\u00ae Awards Ceremony held in New York, The International Digital Emmy\u00ae Awards at MIPTV and a series of industry events such as Academy Day, the International Emmy\u00ae World Television Festival and Panels on substantive industry topics. The Academy was chartered with a mission to recognize excellence in television produced outside of the United States and it presents The International Emmy\u00ae Awards in the following fifteen categories: Arts Programming; Best Performance by an Actress; Best Performance by an Actor; Current Affairs; Children & Young People; Comedy; Digital Program: Children & Young People; Digital Program: Fiction; Digital Program: Non-Fiction; Documentary; Drama Series; News; Non-Scripted Entertainment; Telenovela; TV Movie\/Mini-Series. For more information go to www.iemmys.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"