MIPCOM Buyers’ Awards 2020 Winners Emerge

ORGANISERS of the 36th yearly international television content market, otherwise called MIPCOM 2020, have announced winners of the MIPCOM Buyers’ Award for Japanese Drama. It is held in partnership with the Bureau of International Drama Festival in Tokyo. The award event, which is specifically dedicated to presenting and promoting Japanese content selected by MIPCOM Buyers, held as part of the 2020 MIPCOM Online+ Warm up, which opened on October 5 and closed on October 16. This edition of the award, which held on October 14, is the 11th edition of the coveted awards. The organisers say that the awards are part of the World’s Entertainment Content Market, MIPCOM, which holds online from October 12 to November 17. The Grand Prix award went to Harassment Games by TV TOKYO Corporation, Japan, while the Special Mention award went to The Secrets, a production of Kansai Television Company, Japan.“MIPCOM Buyers’ Award for Japanese Drama” was founded in 2009 in collaboration with MIPCOM. Since then, it has been held yearly as an official MIPCOM event. The award recognises exceptional Japanese dramas as selected by European, American, and Middle Eastern buyers based on the notion of “what they want to buy.” MIPCOM Online+ is the first digital edition of the World’s Entertainment Content Market offering month- long access to inspiring keynotes, screenings, conferences, intel, pitching, networking and more. It is recognised as a premium digital platform offering 1- to- 1 video meetings and live chat among attending delegates during the week of 12 October. MIPCOM Online+ will be available for catch- up through 17 November. More information: www. canneseries. com