Mipcom 2023 Diversify TV Awards Winners

Spotlighting variety within the worldwide tv market, eight tasks took house awards at Mipcom’s Diversify TV Awards.

Introduced on the Cannes Palais des Festivals’ Grand Auditorium, the winners have been chosen from 165 international locations submitted by 27 international locations for the seventh version of the occasion. 

BBC Studios documentary “Inside Our Autistic Minds” received within the illustration of incapacity, non-scripted class. The collection takes us contained in the minds of autistic individuals. Co-produced in partnership with The Open College, within the manufacturing Chris Packham explores the lives of autistic individuals throughout the U.Okay. and brings their expertise to life briefly movies.

In one other high-profile win, the Fremantle-sold “Little Hen” from Canada received within the illustration of race and ethnicity – scripted class. The story follows an Indigenous girl in search of her beginning household and the reality about her previous. The manufacturing firms are Rezolution Footage, and OP Little Hen.

Spain’s “Nights in Tefía” received within the LGBTQIA+ – scripted class. 

A watch-opening account of Spain’s real-life gulags underneath dictator Francisco Franco, little recognized even to Spaniards lately, the drama collection flashes again to 1 homosexual camp inmate,  his days of compelled labor, beatings and rape and the way his time there was made bearable, by nightly tales imagined by one other inmate, set on the fictitious Tindaya, essentially the most well-known music corridor within the capital. 

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Within the illustration of incapacity, scripted class, Canada’s “About Antoine,” a 2023 Berlinale Collection Market Selects title produced by ComediHa!, received for a portrait of a non-verbal, multi-handicapped comic! He can’t specific himself in phrases, however can talk what he needs and desires by way of pictograms and sounds. The unique broadcaster is Membership Illico.

Cambodia’s “Lotus Sports activities Membership” received within the illustration of LGBTQIA+, non-scripted class. Filmed in Cambodia over a five-year interval, this coming-of-age story facilities round a teenage trans man who performs soccer within the under-21s ladies’s group of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, his coach and the daddy determine to a number of LGBTQ+ gamers on the group. 

The award within the illustration of race and ethnicity, non-scripted, went to “The Swap” from Australia. The three-part documentary activates a swap between college students at an Islamic and college students at a Catholic college. The producer is Southern Footage. 

Illustration of variety in children programming – pre-school went to

“Reu and Harper’s Marvel World” (U.Okay.). Initially broadcast on Channel 5, it was produced by Doc Hearts. Within the collection, Reu and Harper meet kids from households from distant now residing within the U.Okay.

Illustration of variety in children programming, older kids, went to “Phoenix Rise” (U.Okay.) from BBC Studios Youngsters & Household division. Within the collection, six outsiders stick collectively to attempt to survive college. “A present about second possibilities,” it’s created by “EastEnders” and “Coronation Avenue” writers. 

The 2023 awards included a behind the scenes impression award to a determine offering inspiration in variety and inclusivity.

The award went to Deborah Williams, CEO of the U.Okay.’s Artistic Variety Community, which has completed pioneering work throughout the movie and TV industries on this regard. 

Amongst these presenting awards on the ceremony have been award-winning Muslim playwright and performer Bilal Baig, and celebrated Paralympian and documentary maker Ellie Simmonds OBE.