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The Banff World Television Festival - BackgrounderThe Banff World Television Festival (BANFF) is the world’s most important television content creation event. Held each June at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in the spectacular Canadian Rockies, the 2009 Festival will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of this annual form of business and creative opportunities for those in television and new media. BANFF 2008 welcomed representatives from most Canadian and American broadcast networks as well as Commissioning Editors and executives from 30 countries around the world. BANFF offers compelling panels on a variety of provocative development, production and distribution issues and future trends, as well as inspiring Master Classes led by the best and brightest in the global television industry. BANFF is also an international platform for networking and a forum for discussing, debating and exploring the issues and challenges in today's television industry and future trends impacting the industry. Unlike other programming-focused events, BANFF provides a number of programmed pitching opportunities where producers meet face-to-face with the world's top Commissioning Editors, sharing knowledge, cultivating relationships, and competing for development money. In addition to fostering communication and business opportunities, BANFF also honors excellence in international television through the prestigious Banff World Television Awards. The Awards traditionally attract 1,000 international program entries from over 45 countries. This extraordinary number of entries, along with the reputable make-up of the Awards jury and the unique independent jury process, combine to make the Awards among the most coveted within the global television community. nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content, inaugurated in 2005 as a precursor sister conference to the annual Banff World Television Festival, attracts a sold-out crowd of content producers, media executives and digital entrepreneurs each year. A three-day forum connecting over 350 of the brightest and most promising leaders in the digital and new media, nextMEDIA overlaps BANFF by one day and creates unique opportunities for industry leaders to take part in panels, sessions and screenings focusing on the business and creative processes of developing and producing digital content. BANFF is owned by the Banff Television Festival Foundation, a not-for-profit organization mandated to recognize, develop, celebrate and encourage excellence in television programming within Canada and around the world. BANFF is produced by Achilles Media Ltd., an event management company that undertakes the organization of prime international events as well as training and development opportunities for content creators and other professionals in the television and new media industries. For additional information please contact:     
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