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Tuesday afternoon, a joyful crowd of industryites gathered at the Grand Auditorium in Cannes for the 8th Mipcom Cannes Diversity TV Awards, introduced on stage by Mipcom director Lucy Smith as “the industry’s only awards to champion and promote diversity and inclusion in all its forms in the international television industry.”

Standing next to her, Mark Garner, head of Global Fast for A&e Networks, and Mip Markets’ Diversity Advisory Board member added: “I’m proud to be a continuous founding sponsor of the Awards, highlighting the “stumbling” debuts of the awards “in a hidden cocktail bar in Cannes.” Garner underscored that since then, diversity voices have grown, and his group’s mission is to mentor those of the future. “When we commit to elevate authentic voices, we get spectacular voices,” he said.

The ceremony was again hosted by Femi Oke, media expert and co-founder of the diverse moderators’ bureau “Moderate The Panel,...

MIPCOM Cannes‘ Diversify TV Awards kicked off Tuesday afternoon at the Grand Palais, with A Different Man actor and activist Adam Pearson, drag star Nicky Doll and host Femi Oke.

The Behind the Scenes Impact Award went to Banijay Launch, a program that works to spotlight emerging women in the industry and pair them with the best of Banijay’s global network of creatives. Endemol Shine North America CEO Sharon Levy said: “Thank you so much. It was super important for us to try to really open up opportunities for women. We really wanted to help women come up with some new ideas and have a seat at the table that maybe they don’t normally get.”

The Representation of Disability in the scripted category was awarded to French series One of Us which airs on TF1. “Authentic representation of disability enhances storytelling,” Pearson said before announcing the winner. “It...

Exclusive: British filmmaker Havana Marking was set to debut her latest project Undercover: Exposing The Far Right, an undercover documentary about far-right communities in the UK, this evening at the London Film Festival.

However, the doc will now world premiere on Channel 4 on October 21 after the London Film Festival pulled the film from its lineup and informed the filmmakers that it will no longer screen the project due to what was described to us as safety concerns.

The doc, created in collaboration with the UK anti-racist organization Hope not Hate, was extended an invitation to world premiere at Lff in June. Weeks later, on September 27, the filmmakers were contacted by London Film Festival organizers who told them they were considering pulling the film from the schedule. Lff confirmed to the filmmakers on October 3, six days before the festival was set to start, that it would not be showing the film.