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The Banff World Television Festival is the world's most important television content creation event and 2009 will mark the 30th anniversary of this annual forum of business and creative opportunities for those in television and new media.

The 2009 Festival will take place June 7-10, 2009 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Conference Centre in the Canadian Rockies. Television professionals from around the world will partake in provocative seminars, inspiring Master Classes, unique pitching opportunities and more.

The Festival combines a prestigious international program competition, the Banff World Television Awards, with a comprehensive conference agenda. This marketplace of ideas generates co-production deals, enables new business relationships and brings to light future trends of the industry. As well as honouring excellence in international television, the Festival provides a global platform for industry members to network, discuss and debate, and to explore current issues and challenges.

Thing to expect:

Face to Face with an Agent
Adding to our popular series, 2009 will see the launch of speed-dating with agents. Book your 10min slot for a chance to get Canadian and international representation.

The Craft
The Craft series is a workshop-style, hour long session that brings writers, directors and producers together in workshops that break down the creative process of making great television. This is a new strand of programming this year, inspired by our delegates who wanted a more interactive learning experience with the top-level creators we bring out to the festival.

The Biz

These sessions are geared towards producers and will examine various legal and business affairs issues relating to the production of television and new and emerging media projects. We’ll go in-depth to help you learn the tools of the trade and discover how to protect yourself and your project from our expert panelists.

Keynote Speakers
Where else can you find one of the biggest players in broadcast, mobile and publishing content development, an innovative social theorist who also happens to be a best-selling author, and a president of a successful Hollywood studio? At BANFF, of course!

Master Classes
The most creative and successful minds in television reveal their unique creative processes, and the trade secrets of what it takes to make a hit show.

In Conversation
In Conversation... provides a format for high profile and visionary television executives to be interviewed by equally engaging media personalities. Discover the type of intimate, behind-the-scenes info you want to know.

Panel Discussions
Panel Discussions bring together television’s most important directors, producers and Commissioning Editors to discuss key issues facing the industry.

Decision Maker Breakfast/Lunch/Cocktails/Bowling
An intimate, no-pressure opportunity for independent producers to meet with key Commissioning Editors – broadcast industry leaders, influential power-brokers who are looking to discover the freshest, hottest new ideas in television. Delegates can register for two Decision Maker sessions.

Face-to-Face
Experience the chance of a lifetime to sit down face-to-face with an international Commissioning Editor. You have ten minutes to make an impression. Take a deep breath, pitch your project, load on the "WOW"...and leave with a deal.

C21 Broadcaster Briefings
Get inside information on what broadcasters from around the world want. In these open, informal sessions, international Commissioning Editors will provide insight into their schedules, outline production priorities and biases, discuss potential partnership deals, and answer your questions.

nextMEDIA Digital Media Stream
This year BANFF will be continuing a series of digital media panels and workshops that highlight some of the key areas of growth affecting the television industry. These panels will take some of the main ideas that came out BANFF’s sister conference nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content and tailor them for the television community.

Rookies in the Rockies
Mix, mingle, and get motivated as Festival veterans share tips on how to get the most out of your time here. BANFF’s annual first-timer’s gathering is the best place to start your week. Get your elevator pitches ready and find out the how, where, who and why of meeting broadcasters, building relationships and ‘working’ the Festival.

On top of all of these great opportunities is the Banff World Television Awards. The 2009 categories are:

CHILDREN, FAMILY & YOUTH CATEGORIES

(Fiction & Non Fiction)
Children's Programs (2+)
Youth Programs (13+)

ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORIES

(a) Animation Programs
(b) Comedies -
(c) Lifestyle & Information Programs
(d) Music or Variety Programs or Series
(e) Reality Format Programs
(f) Sports Entertainment Programs

DOCUMENTARY CATEGORIES
(a) Arts & Performing Arts Programs J
(b) Environmental Programs
(c) History & Biography Programs
(d) Investigative & Current Affairs Programs
(e) Political Documentaries
(f) Popular Science & Technology Programs
(g) Social & Humanitarian Documentaries
(h) Sports Documentaries
(i) Wildlife & Natural History Programs

DRAMA CATEGORIES

(a) Continuing Series & Serial Programs
( b) Made-for-TV-Movies
(c) Mini-Series
(d) Telenovela

INTERACTIVE CATEGORIES:

(a) Immersive Entertainment
(b) Original Online Programs

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