By Iminza Keboge
Published January 16, 2018
Buyers, sellers and producers of film, television and online content from all over the world are expected to gather for the second annual distribution and co-production market (DISCOP).
The three-day DISCOP Dubai market that shall be held January 25-27, 2018 at the Intercontinental Dubai Festival City Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) shall bring together more than 750 practitioners.
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Los Angeles, California (USA)-based Basic Lead, the organisers of DISCOP Dubai, say the focus of DISCOP Dubai 2018 is northern Africa, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.
This comes at a time when projections indicate that the television content market in the Middle East and Africa shall between 2016 and 2021 generate revenues worth US$15.2 billion.
Basic Lead says DISCOP Dubai is ready to receive representatives of advertising agencies, brands, governmental and financial institutions, influencers and journalists alongside sellers, distributors and buyers of films, TV series, dramas, documentaries, online and animation and scripted and unscripted content, video games, and projects in development and work-in-progress.
