vancouver: The B.C. Motion Picture Association is organizing a group booth for b.c. film and television executives at both MIPCOM 95 in Cannes this October and natpe in Las Vegas in January. It will be the first time that b.c. has hosted its own booth.

The b.c. participants will get representation at the booths to conduct business such as coventures and product sales. They will also be included in the accompanying interactive electronic kiosks and take-away cd-roms – both of which will present a catalogue of production clips – and in the special promotional World Wide Web site launched on the Internet in September. (The Internet address is pending.)

The package – costing $3,500 per producer at mipcom – is a ‘low-cost’ initiative to call international attention to locally based productions, says bcmpa president Coralee Elliott Testar. She’s also hoping to build on previous trade show successes of b.c. productions such as Neon Rider and Odyssey.

At press time, Gordon Standfield of Standfield Animation, Melanie Kilgour of distributor TSC Shannock and David Pettigrew of Temple Films were some of the few participants confirmed. The deadline for participants is Aug. 21.

Half of the $300,000 budget will come from funding agency British Columbia Film and other government agencies such as the Canada-B.C. Agreement on Communications and Cultural Industries.