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Broadcast Commissioning Conference
Vision and Media offered 20 subsidised places for Northwest media companies attending Broadcast’s Commissioning Conference in November 2007. Back in Manchester for its sixth year, this one-day event featured comprehensive channel overviews from the country’s leading broadcasters and in-depth discussions of genre specific commissioning trends.

Mipcom
MIPCOM, is the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms that takes place every October in Cannes. In 2007 Vision and Media provided mentoring support for five Northwest-based companies planning to attend. Support took the form of a discretionary grant, mentoring from Vision and Media staff in Cannes, networking opportunities with other company attendees and a pre-market workshop.
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UK Media Desk
Vision and Media provided support for the 2007 event’s November stopover in Manchester. Promoting the European Union’s MEDIA 2007 Programme, Director of the UK MEDIA Desk, Agnieszka Moody, explained how the funding schemes worked and how to submit a successful application. One-to-one sessions were also available with Agnieszka as she provided Northwest-based producers, writers and directors with information on a range of MEDIA-supported professional training courses, festivals and markets in Europe.

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