The Basque audiovisual sector, present for another year at MIPTV with a wide catalog

Eiken and the Etxepare Basque Institute have been attending the International Television and Digital Content Market held in Cannes in April under the Basque Audiovisual brand for almost ten years.

From today until Thursday the 6th, Eiken Basque Audiovisual and Digital Content Cluster and the Etxepare Institute will be present again at MIPTV (Cannes), together with the most important international agents in the digital entertainment sector, who meet every year in what is considered one of the most important television and media markets worldwide. MIPTV offers the opportunity to contact producers, distributors and buyers from all continents, thereby promoting the internationalization of content and formats in a global market.

In this edition, the companies Bainet, Baleuko, Bilbao Web Fest, EiTB, Expressive Media Project, Old Port Films, Pausoka Entertainment, Prime Time Media, The Blackout Project and Winkle 360 ​​will be present in the French city and will present their products under the umbrella brand of Basque Audiovisual. Together with them, the Eiken Cluster and the Etxepare Institute will carry out intense commercial work with an agenda in which the network of international contacts will be reinforced in order to generate business opportunities for Basque companies.

The Basque audiovisual company travels to France with a wide catalog of animation, distribution, entertainment, documentaries and formats products. The main benefit of the participation of Basque companies in this event is to enable meetings with international professionals from the entire value chain of the audiovisual and digital content sector. For this reason, Eiken has set among its objectives the promotion of our territory, presenting the Basque Country as a nucleus of international production, and Basque Audiovisual and Digital Content as a future link for filming.

MipFormats y MipDoc

During this weekend MipFormats and MipDoc were held in Cannes. The first brings together the world's most important producers, presidents, buyers, and distributors to discover the best entertainment formats and future must-see. This year, Pausoka has been selected, among more than one hundred companies from around the world, as one of the five finalist production companies for the MIPFormats International Pitch, the international pitch competition with the format The Best In History, where they test the participants' ability to survive just as our ancestors did. A reality show without a specific place or time, since each episode is set in a different moment in the country's history.

On the other hand, the animation series from the company Uniko has been selected for the MIPTV Digital Short Form Series Pitch.

It should be remembered that in the case of Pausoka it is not the first time that it has reached the final of this prestigious event that takes place in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, where the finalist companies present their format to the professional audience made up of broadcasters, distributors and buyers from all over the world.

For its part, Uniko has been the winner of two Goyas in this edition, one for the animated feature film Psychonauts, the forgotten children film directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero and which has also been awarded at international festivals; and the second, thanks to the animated short film Decorated also by Alberto Vázquez.