by Ana Vasile, published on 26.05.2011

The Young and Independent Producer’s Day is an event that proposes a market for the young producers and for the decision-makers from the audiovisual field searching for innovating programs, through a speed – business meeting. The event strives to offer a 360° overview: a thoroughly conceived diversity with a transmedia approach of the content. The first edition of this event will be held on Tuesday 31^st May at Porte d’Aubervilliers, France.

All formats for all screens

The declared objective of the event is to discover emergent talents and to valorise the content diversity.  Laurence Lascary, the head of DACP, the YIPD organising company, told us that “the audiovisual innovation rests in its market’s democratization, which will allow the emergence of new companies and a widening of the content proposals accessible to a larger audience.”

Convinced that the independents producers can propose “programs that are better fitted to meet the audience’s needs, in a better degree than the “patrimonial” ones, Lascary emphasize the fact that « the producer’s job rests the same (to join human and financial resources in the service of creativity) but the young producers innovate through their capacity to propose alternative content, by making use of their international influences, by proposing content accordant to the contemporary society, a high quality content, able to meet the audience’s request. “

The selection of young producers was made in May. About 30 enterprises will present more than 200 programs, in a development or production state. Between all these projects, the organisers will present “about fifteen transmedia programs. Essentially short formats, developed for web and television broadcast.”

While the inscriptions as independent producer are already closed, you still have the opportunity to attend the event as participants, by making a demand of accreditation on the event’s website.

The decision-makers attending the YIPD issued form a wide range of audiovisual entities, from TV channels or distributors to professional associations: TF1, Arte, France 2, France 3, Canal+, Lagardère Active, Coyote, Endemol, TVFI, Planète Nolimit, CapaTV, Film&picture, Bellianne, QG Distribution, 3A Télésud, Touscoprod.

Event’s schedule:

The event’s schedule is structured in two parts: during the morning the event offers access to three roundtables on audiovisual hot topics organized with the help of Ina SUP, while the afternoon is reserved for the business meetings and programs’ pitching.

The YIPD is organized with the help of its partners: The Regional d’Ile-de-France Council, Ina SUP, MpowA, le MediaClub and the Aubervilliers town.

More information is available on the event’s main website, on the Facebook page, on the Vimeo channel or on the Twitter account.