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  Kidding Around
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NEWS FROM THE FESTIVAL

 

Friday June 15 2001

Kidding Around - Market Simulation Part II hears hits and misses
Producers of three projects played to a tough audience at yesterday's Market Simulation for kids programs, where most broadcasters gave the cold shoulder to a bleak teen drama, an earnest series on disabilities and an animated program about two germ-infested losers.
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Aboriginal Access - Native stories often ghettoized
Despite strides by aboriginal filmmakers in recent years, their work continues to be marginalized in programming ghettos, according to panelists at yesterday's Aboriginal Voices session at the Banff Television Festival.
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Le marché américain est-il si difficile à pénétrer?
Une séance plénière sur le marché américain du documentaire réunissait trois cadres supérieurs de chaînes de télévision américaines - Toni Egger (Discovery), Bill Harris (A&E) et Charles Schuerhoff (CS Associates) - et deux cadres canadiens - David Lint (Cinenova Productions) et Andy Thomson (Alliance-Atlantis Communications).
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