FormatBiz | IPXCHANGE opened its doors to the Independent Producers of Formats

On Monday, March 11 at 10 am in Cologne started officially the third edition of IPCHANGE, a special two-days event dedicated to the German TV producers and their quest to expand the format's business in the International world. Actually, the conference became an occasion to invite Independent Producers to pitch thei new projects and formats.

The idea conceived by veteran TV producer Wolfgang Link and TV marketing expert Sandra Lehner who decide to organize the event before Miptv and Mipcom.

The first day that ended with a cocktail and later a dinner started in the morning with the presentation by David Ciaramella - formerly at the agency “K7 Media”, of some TV Formats Trends with an overview to the recent week of the London Screenings. Ciaramella who just launched his newly agency Boxed Off talked about some adventure reality like The Summit (Banijay Rights), Sharks! Celebrities infested waters (ITV Studios) and highlited some factual entertainment series like The Toy Hospital (Warner Bros), The Jury: Murder Trial (UK, Channel 4) and Interview with the History (Lineup/Banijay).

German Producer André Schubert, CEO of CaliVision Network, talked about the survival reality show 7 vs. Wild a huge succes on YouTube that he would like to transfer to TV.
Tim Crescenti, CEO of SMALLWORLD, presented his lineup of success from prime time show Win Your Country, optioned in France and in production with a pilot in Spain to the audience remotely, while Tanja van der Goes (AllRightMedia) gave an update of the classical format of her catalogue, from The Connections to Take Me Home. Andrew Sime (Newen Connect), presented two new formats: The Secret Agent, actually pitching in the UK and Beauty Match broadcast by TFX.