Canneseries Festival to Remain Standalone Event in Spring Without MipTV; Canal+ to Return as Sponsor
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent While MipTV is relocating to London with a revamped format, Canneseries Festival is sticking to its guns and will remain as a standalone event in the spring on the Croisette.
Benoit Louvet, the managing director of Canneseries, told Variety in an exclusive interview that the festival will return in 2025 on April 22-27 with its major partners, the city of Cannes, the region PACA and the Vivendi-owned pay TV group Canal+.
The sixth edition, which wrapped on April 10, hosted the world premieres of highly anticipated international shows including Disney+’s “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld” and AppleTV+’s “Franklin,” with big stars such as Daniel Bruhl and Michael Douglas on the ground.
Canneseries has run alongside MipTV since its inception in 2019, and experimented as a standalone event once before, in the fall of 2020 after MipTV was canceled due to the pandemic.
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