ScreenMDM Talks

Central and Eastern Europe was among the first regions toembrace Turkish drama storytelling, and strong demand remains across linear, SVOD, and AVOD, Müge Akar, group head of sales and distribution at ATV, tells ScreenMDM Talks.

Sunny Side of the Doc’s Aurélie Reman and Documentary Campus’s Donata von Perfall tell ScreenMDM Talks about joining forces to bring the beloved La Rochelle event back—and reformatting it for a new era.

André Renaud, general VP of format and finished sales at Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP), joins ScreenMDM Talks’ Format Zone strand to talk entertainment and reality trends, battling risk aversion, and 360-degree brand building.

The entertainment economy is operating against a backdropwhere “the most valuable companies in entertainment are not entertainment companies,” resulting in APOS’s most future-facing edition to date, Vivek Couto, executive director of Media Partners Asia, tells ScreenMDM in our latest podcast episode.

ScreenMDM Talks welcomes Sanja Božić-Ljubičić to share howNEM Dubrovnik has become the must-attend CEE market this summer, while ACT’s Grégoire Polad weighs in on how important the event is for convening thought leaders to discuss the transformation happening across Europe’s media ecosystem.

Rolling out across Disney Jr. and Disney+, Sofia the First: Royal Magic brings the beloved character back eight years after the original series ended. ScreenMDM Talks welcomed Craig Gerber, EP and creator, onto the podcast to reflect on why now was a good time to bring the young princess back, the themes underpinning the storytelling, and how the show, premiering May 25, will resonate with a new generation of preschoolers.

The Season is a buzzy new co-production from PCCW Media and SK Global that is premiering on Viu and Hulu this summer. The show's lead director and EP, Marialy Rivas, talks visual storytelling, global collaboration, and the joys of the Hong Kong backdrop in the new drama from the makers of Crazy Rich Asians.

The business of content doesn’t happen in a vacuum, Inside Content’s Géraldine Gonard and independent producer Alexander Keil stress in the latest episode of ScreenMDM Talks as we preview the tenth edition of the well-regardedCONECTA event, which is bringing executives from across the ecosystem to sunny Mallorca to discuss scripted and entertainment trends and chart a new path for international collaboration.

Tattle TV, a vertical entertainment app, made a lot of noiseearlier this year when it turned Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 feature The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog into a scrolling microdrama. The platform’s co-founder, Philip James McGoldrick, joins ScreenMDM Talks to weigh in on reformatting library titles for a new generation, empowering creators, and embracing AI to drive new forms of artistic expression.

Our latest Gen A to Z episode of ScreenMDM Talks welcomes Erika Vogt-Lowell, VP of content at HITN, to talk about meeting the educational and entertainment needs of Spanish-language preschoolers at Edye, an SVOD platform that has expanded well beyond its U.S. Hispanic roots as it turns seven, with a footprint that runs across Latin America.