Videoage International September 2019

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.V i deoAge.org THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION September 2019 - VOL. 38 NO. 4A - $9.75 (Continued on Page 10) N ATPE recently hosted “Streaming Plus” a first-of- its-kind summit for the Los Angeles-based non-profit TV trade organization, during which leading executives from CBS, YouTube, The CW, and Netflix gathered to review streaming’s position in the programming and distribution industry’s future. The summit, which took place at the W Hollywood Hotel at the end of July, kicked off with the phrase: “There’s only one thing you can’t stream— and that’s networking.” The one-day exchange could be summed up with one word: fun! But it did feel as though the event was trying to leverage the “hip” factor Prix Italia Turns To Ancient Rome To SaluteDiversity Business travel brings creativity and productivity The more TV changes, the more Jornadas stays the same World: DiVona brings TV classics to modern viewers My 2¢: Behind-the- scenes extras destroy the magic of movies Page 14 Page 6 Page 4 Page 3 O nly a few weeks after the G7 Summit was held in Biarritz, French content distributors and members of TV France International (TVFI) — the industry association of French audiovisual program exporters — will attend this year’s edition of Le Rendez-Vous in the seaside resort TVFI Stages 25th French Film-TV Exports Expo (Continued on Page 8) NATPE’s First Streaming Plus Had Lots of Pluses A fter a 26-year absence, Prix Italia returns to Rome September 23-28 for its 71st edition. The “Prix,” as it is commonly called, is the world’s oldest radio-TV festival, and is sponsored by RAI, Italy’s state broadcast organization. Last year, the itinerant Prix was held in Capri, where its very first edition took place in 1948. Keeping with tradition, this year’s event will unfold in two venues. The first is Trajan’s Market, a complex built in 100 AD across the street from the Colosseum, in the heart of Rome. The other is the Exposition Palace, an imposing structure built in 1882 on Via (Continued on Page 12) since many attendees talked about marketing to millennials, which is presumably their target audience. Nonetheless, the one-day event was attended by a good blend of everyone from late twenty- somethings to TV veterans. Some Viacom execs were in town from New York City, but most were Los