Banff World Media Festival

Banff World Media Festival
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s)Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Inaugurated1979 (1979) as the Banff World Television Festival[1]
Organised byBrunico Communications
Websitehttps://banffmediafestival.playbackonline.ca/

Founded in 1979, the Banff World Media Festival (formerly known as the Banff World Television Festival) is an international media event held in the Canadian Rockies at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The festival is concerned with world television and digital content and its creation and development, and is owned and operated by Brunico Communications.[2]

As well as honouring excellence in international television, professionals from around the world participate in seminars, master classes, and pitching opportunities. Film directors, screenwriters, and producers from PBS, BBC, NHK, Arte, Channel 4, ABC, Sony Pictures, HBO, CBC, NFB, SBS, and many other broadcasters and production companies attend the annual event.[3]

The festival provides a global platform for industry members to discuss and debate, and explore current issues, challenges and trends.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference handbook was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Popular TV shows trace origins back to Banff". Rocky Mountain Outlook, June 22, 2017.
  3. ^ "CBC Executives at Banff" The Star
  4. ^ ARTE Magazine, Issue 39, 23 November 2006, p. 30.