At Cannes Festival Hall TV-Programmes Turn To Commodities
Around 9000 tv distributors are coming together two times each year for the world‘s biggest tv trade fair in Cannes. A place where television programmes are not more than commodities, much like pieces of furniture really.
Feature films, series, documentaries and entertainment shows are sold as „packages“, it is all about „formats“, „coverage“ and „marketing“. About target groups and new technologies. However, the luxury along the French coast, amongst Champagne and glamorous hotels, can be deceptive: the industrie is becoming ever tougher and more competitive.
Tv-expert Lutz Hachmeister and filmmakers and journalist-duo Petra Höfer and Freddie Röckenhaus observed the activities of tv-distributors at the Côte d‘Azur and show how the tv programme eventually finds its way to our television.
Feature films, series, documentaries and entertainment shows are sold as „packages“, it is all about „formats“, „coverage“ and „marketing“. About target groups and new technologies. However, the luxury along the French coast, amongst Champagne and glamorous hotels, can be deceptive: the industrie is becoming ever tougher and more competitive.
Tv-expert Lutz Hachmeister and filmmakers and journalist-duo Petra Höfer and Freddie Röckenhaus observed the activities of tv-distributors at the Côte d‘Azur and show how the tv programme eventually finds its way to our television.
Erstausstrahlung: 17. Januar 1996, 22.30 Uhr
Weitere Ausstrahlungen: Südwest 3, B 1
Drehort: Cannes (Frankreich)
Ein Film von:
Petra Höfer
Freddie Röckenhaus
Lutz Hachmeister
Kamera:
Martin Schmitz
Siegfried Breuer
Schnitt:
Miriam Peter
Redaktion:
Knut Fischer (Westdeutscher Rundfunk)