News from France Telecom
These are the alliances that Clicktoplay is forming. A very interesting release. From the winners of the contest which was sponsored by France Telecom will be some of the brightest minds in the world of Interactive Media. Now they have already partnered with Clicktoplay having their games on their website. With the partnership will that not leave Clicktoplay to chose from these international winners of the competition to add to their team of designers. Contacts are the name of the game and with alliances with Bernard Tapie and France Telecom this company has achieved what many companies cannot. ESTABLISHING THEMSELVES WITH WINNERS.
I have just tripled up my position.
The last paragraph of the press release is very important.
France Telecom is by the way listed on the New York Exchange: FTE
Bill on the Hill
Thursday December 10, 2:25 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Meet the Next Generation
Milia and New Talent Pavilion Sponsors Media Programme of the European Union, France Telecom and INA (French National Audio-Visual Institute) Congratulate This Year's 27 Winners
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1998-- Milia, the International Content Market for Interactive Media, co-organiser of the New Talent Pavilion in partnership with Media Programme of the European Union France Telecom and INA, is pleased to announce the names of the 27 lucky winners among students, freelance professionals and amateurs who competed in this international contest.
The selected projects originating from 11 countries worldwide (Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom and the USA) will be presented during Milia - Milia Games in the New Talent Pavilion, a special area within the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, February 9-12, 1999.
The New Talent Pavilion showcases a selection of international projects in all domains including games, interactive media and online technologies. The competition's mission is to bring awareness to new innovative talent and projects from around the world. A true job-bank and talent pool, the goal of the New Talent Pavilion competition is for the winners to find jobs within the industry, investments to fund their projects or, ultimately, publishers for their work.
This year, more than 240 projects were received from 25 countries representing a growth of 52% compared to Milia '98. Among the candidates, 123 are European and 119 come from the U.S., Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Israel, Brazil, China, Colombia, India and Korea. For its 5th edition, the New Talent Pavilion was open to professional and amateur creators for the first time: 72% of projects were submitted by students, 23% by interactive media professionals, and 5% by amateurs.
Bernard Tani, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, France Telecom [NYSE:FTE - news] Multimedia declares, ''By participating in the New Talent Pavilion, what interests France Telecom is to imagine the multimedia of tomorrow, by providing the necessary means to young talent to create high quality products and introduce them to the public.''
''Through our support, the Media Programme of the European Union aspires to promote and create opportunities for young talent, essential to the development of an interactive media industry in perpetual evolution,'' declares Jacques Delmoly, manager of the Media Programme.
Serge Lafont (INA) declares, ''What's incredible is the realisation that cultural diversity is able to resist the uniformity of most development tools. The world has become a global village full of neighbourhoods which have retained their distinct cultural and social identity: multimedia tools allow us to visit these neighbourhoods effortlessly.'
An international jury presided by Serge Lafont, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of INA and including the following international experts, viewed the projects on December 2nd and 3rd to determine the final selection: Nicolas BARANDIARAN (Anaya Interactiva), Oscar CLARK (BT Wireplay), Franz FISCHNALLER (F.A.B.R.I. CATORS), Olivier HECKMANN (Multimania), Tsuji HIROKO (Freelance Journalist), Andrew CLARKE (Kinonet/New Talent Pavilion '98 member), Arne PETERS (INTEL GMBH), Mark WEBLEY (Lionhead Studios Limited) and Ron ZAMIR (Israel Multimedia and Internet Forum).
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New Talent Pavilion Milia '99
Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy,
Japan, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom and the USA.
<< Writer's Block >> RMIT University
Australia Nicole McKINNON
<< Dialogues de Sourds >> Universite Paris 8
France Frederique MANCEAU
<< Site Atelier de Decoupage Ecole Superieure des Arts
Typographique>> Decoratifs de Strasbourg
France Jean-Philippe GOUSSOT
<< The Couch-Potato >> Freelance
France Nils VEAUX
<< Microball Project >> Universite Paris 8
France Ouali CHABI
<< Verlaine/ Visite Virtuelle de Universite Paris 8
Programme Immobilier >> Philippe DUBARRY
France
<< Dyngy Dong >> Freelance
France Remi VALENTIN
<< The Secret Garden of Mutabor >> Freelance
Germany Jens SCHMIDT
<< Madame Groszgyan's >> Georg Simon Ohm Fachhochschule
Germany Nurnberg Verena OSGYAN
<< Born with a Broken Tongue >> Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland Martin CASEY
<< Point of View - An Experiment The Interdisciplinary Center
in Linear Hypervideo >> for the Study of Business, Law,
Israel and Technology
Guy VARDI
<< Italo Calvino Primary School >> Freelance
Italy Chiara PIACENTINI
<< ZOO >> Tokyo Art Polytechnic
Japan Hiroko TOCHIGI
<< Make An Experiment With An International Academy of Media
Inflated Balloon >> Arts and Sciences
Japan Isato KATAOKA
<< Type de+sign >> International Academy of Media
Japan Arts and Sciences
Takayuki KITAHARA
<< First PC >> Kobe Art & Polytechnical
Japan University
Taku ANEKAWA
<< Labyrinth of Dreams >> Nanyang Polytechnic
Singapore Alvin Sebastian HOO
<< Ruiro Siki >> Universitat de les Illes Balears
Spain Tania RUIZ
<< NDE (Near Death Experience) >> Middlesex University
UK Carl CAPTIEUX
<< Art Station >> The London Institute
UK Iris HESKIAHU BEN DAVID
<< You got to burn to shine >> Middlesex University
UK Laurence ELLIOTT
<< BEO >> Middlesex University
UK Paola Elena DAPEI
<< Revamp >> Royal College of Art
UK Tim BROOKE
<< esfore-entropy >> Middlesex University
UK Vi Sieu LAC
<<Beyond Glory: Stories of Art Center College of Design
Mack & Jack Robinson >> Allison GOODMAN
USA
<<Computational Expressionism >> Massachussetts Institute of
USA Technology
Joanna Maria BERZOWSKA
<<5 Small poems for me & my lover>> New York University - Tisch
USA School of the Arts
Orit KRUGLANSKI
Milia, The International Content Market for Interactive Media launched by Reed Midem Organisation in January 1994 is the world's only truly international event dedicated to interactive media and content regardless of the platform. Milia/Milia Games will take place from February 9-12, 1999 in Cannes, France.
Milia's aim is to bring together, over a five day period, key decision makers and professionals in the interactive media industry to buy and sell rights, form strategic alliances, identify global market trends, negotiate distribution agreements and scout new talent.
For further information, please connect to milia.com or contact:
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Contact:
FRANCE TELECOM
Fabienne Dulac
33 (0) 1 44 44 39 24
fabienne_dulac@francetelecom.fr
OR
INA
Meloe Babillon
33 (0) 1 49 83 20 95
mbabillon@ina.fr
OR
REED MIDEM ORGANISATION
Armelle Coatsaliou / Tanya Whiteside
33 (0) 1 41 90 44 79 / 38
armelle_coatsaliou@midem-paris.ccmail.compuserve.com
tania_whiteside@midem-paris.ccmail.compuserve.com
OR
U.K./Stewart-Muir Communications
David Cook
(44) 181 943 2111
david@stewartmuir.com
OR
U.S./SSA Public Relations
Eva Obadia
(1 212) 679-4750
evaobadia@aol.com
OR
Germany/NewMediaConception
Iris Bellinghausen
(49) 89 480 88521
iris.bellinghausen@webteam.de
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