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June 21, 2024

MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV Awards 2024 Opens Global Call For Entries

The MIPCOM CANNES Diversify TV Awards 2023 ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, October 17, 2023 during the MIPCOM event in Cannes1. These awards celebrate diversity and inclusion in the international television industry, recognising outstanding programming that provides fair representation and challenges stereotypes.

Paris, France – MIPCOM CANNES announced the global call for entries has opened for the eighth edition of the MIPCOM CANNES Diversify TV Awards. Closing date for submissions is 19 July for consideration across nine awards, with the winners to be announced live on stage during an industry ceremony on the second day of MIPCOM CANNES (21-24 October).

Dedicated to championing and promoting diversity and inclusion in all its forms across the international television industry, the MIPCOM CANNES Diversify TV Awards attracted over 150 submissions from 27 countries in 2023 and will again be presented in Cannes as part of the 40th edition of the mother of all entertainment content markets and the world’s greatest gathering of TV and Entertainment Executives.

The awards will be staged in the Grand Auditorium of the world-renowned Palais des Festivals in the ceremony’s newly established prominent position on day two of MIPCOM CANNES (Tuesday 22 October) from 12.00 to 13.00, to be followed by a cocktail lunch reception.

The awards are organised by MIPCOM CANNES in collaboration with founding partner Diversify TV, and in association with Founding Presenting Partner A+E Media Group and Awards Partners All3Media, Telefilm Canada and The Canada Media Fund among other supporting partner companies and organisations. 

A total of nine winners will be awarded in 2024 across scripted and unscripted (categories listed below) including a behind-the-scenes impact honour (for which nominations are also invited). Finalists will be short-listed by a jury of members of the MIP Markets' Diversity Advisory Board members and a Special Jury of Industry Experts and Advocacy organisations committed to diversity and inclusion in the global media landscape and everywhere.

To be eligible, programmes must demonstrate a fair and balanced representation of Race & Ethnicity, LGBTQIA+ and Disabled communities; show a positive impact; stand out in originality and excellence in terms of storytelling, casting and production values; challenge stereotypes and have aired the past year (premiere broadcast or streaming of any season between 22 July 2023 and 21 July 2024 on a linear and/or non-linear platform). Entry for the eighth edition is here where full terms, conditions and criteria can also be found.

 

“These awards recognise the positive and demonstrate the possible” said Lucy Smith, Director of MIPCOM CANNES and MIPJUNIOR. “Our aim every year when the global TV industry is gathered, is to use that opportunity and our unrivalled platform to spotlight the programming and people internationally that embody excellence in representation as examples to be inspired by and aspire to.”  

Categories in nomination for the MIPCOM CANNES Diversify TV Awards 2024 are:

Representation of Race and Ethnicity

• Scripted

• Non-Scripted

Representation of LGBTQIA+

• Scripted

• Non-Scripted

Representation of Disability

• Scripted

• Non-Scripted

Representation of Diversity in Kids Programming

• Pre-School

• Older Children

The Behind The Scenes Impact Award

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