On 6 May 2012 the 51st Rose d'Or Festival will open in Lucerne. We are looking forward to an outstanding forum and a glamorous Awards Night with top stars from Australia, USA, UK and Germany. Joining us at the KKL will be Stefan Raab - German entertainer, television presenter and producer, known from such shows as ?TV Total?, ?Schlag Den Raab? and the ?Eurovision Song Contest? -, ?Top Gear's? Jeremy Clarkson and TV legend Larry Hagman aka villain JR Ewing, while silver-screen beauty Isabel Lucas...

The Cologne Medienforum, held from June 5 - 11 celebrated its 20th anniversary and provided again in numerous seminars, key note speeches and screenings an ideal opportunity for interventions by civil servants, politicians, representatives from the commercial television sector and senior managers from public television, the film, print and digital media areas. The Medienforum was introduced by a four day special programs “Grosses Fernsehen” (Great TV) covering large screen proj...

As the 16th edition shows, the Cologne Conference held from May 18. – 24, 2006 has become the most important annual German platform for presenting the innovative international fiction and non- fiction television fare as well as influential professional seminars. It could be best compared to a one-week crash course in reflexive high quality television and film. Under the current direction of Martin Richter, there is continued emphasis on film, as exemplified by this year’s comprehensive Micha...

The Cologne Conference is one of the world’s biggest TV events. Since 1991, it has played a pivotal role in bringing together international and German TV experts. Several top notch programmes such as "ER", "Sex and the City" and "West Wing" had their German and European premieres at the Cologne Conference. Oscar and Golden Globe laureates engage in discussions and negotiations during the festival.This year the Cologne Conference moves to a new location - the MediaPark Cologne - where in May so...

European Film Music Awards “New Sound in European Film” go to Russia and the UKSoundTrack_Cologne2.0, the Cologne convention on music and sound in film and the media, culminated in Saturday’s festive awards ceremony for the European Film Music Award “New Sound in European Film”. In the category FILMSCORE the European Film Music Award went to Maria Ushenina from Moscov, in the category SOUNDDESIGN the winner was Christopher Wilson from the UK.The Skoda SoundTrack Award for students unde...

International Film Congress at the 2005 Cologne Medien Forum06/30 – 07/05The Largest European media conference, the Cologne Medien Forum in North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) has a comprehensive orientation providing updates on socio-economic related issues impacting the film and television industries and comprehensive screenings through the parallel Cologne Conference which feature the best television programs produced world wide in the previous year. Other equally important parts are the Intern...

Second International Competition of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale The programmatic focus of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale (19 - 24 October 2005) will be the intersection of visual arts and film. The following are eligible for entry in the competition: films by visual artists; documentaries about visual artists; feature films with visual arts as the subject. The works must be produced after 2003 and they must be fit to be screened as a film (16 mm, 35 mm) or video (Beta SP, DVD). The main prize i...

The Cologne MedienForum, June 20-23, 2004Organized by the Media Authority of the state of North Rhine Westphalia and major German public and private media industries, the 16th annual MedienForum was held again in the fair grounds of Cologne, Germany’s dominant television centrum and home of Europe’s largest public television group WDR and Germany’s largest private television stations. Catering to the second largest television market in the world, the MedienForum is of particular relevance ...