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MIPTV (International Television Program Market) has announced
that award winning documentary producer Brian Lapping is
MIPDOC 2002's special guest. MIPTV claims to be the spring's
leading international television program market.
He
will appear in MIPDOC's interview Talking with. The
interview session will be held during the MIPDOC documentaries
screenings at Cannes from 13-14 April. This will be followed
by MIPTV from 15-19 April.
At MIPTV Brian Lapping will look to tie up with broadcasters
for Tackling Terror, an official release states.
This is a new two-hour documentary investigating the political
decisions made in the wake of 11 September events.
The principal shooting of Tackling Terror will commence
in April. The UK's Channel 4 originally commissioned the
program. Since then 15 networks around the globe have signed
up as co-producers, the release states.
The documentary is scheduled to be broadcast on the first
anniversary of the attacks. The program examines the change
in the American psyche, and its allied governments following
the attacks of last September, the fall of Kandahar in Afghanistan
and the creation of an interim government in Afghanistan.
Lapping's has an impressive resume that includes producing
The Second Russian Revolution, Watergate and
the Death of Yugoslavia.
In 1988, Lapping set up his own company, known as Brook
Lapping Productions. Its first production, Countdown
to War, a drama based on letters, memoirs and official
papers, starred Oscar nominee Ian McKellen (Gods And
Monsters) as Hitler.
In 1994 the company's Watergate won for Discovery
Channel in the US its largest audience ever for a documentary
series. In 1995, the The Death of Yugoslavia series
was broadcast in more than 30 countries and won over a dozen
prestigious awards.
Last year MIPTV featured 11,049 executives, 2,827 companies
from 90 countries including 1,228 exhibiting companies on
481 stands, and 2,167 buyers the release states.
MIPTV is organised by REED MIDEM a world class organizer
of top-level international trade events in Cannes and overseas
which have become essential business platforms for key industry
players.
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