G-Tech, a company combining animators, designers and writers will screen Amaz, an animated series that covers major environmental issues featuring an alien who comes from a civilization 10,000 years ahead of Earth. Vision Films will present two feature films at MIP Screenings. Get A Way is a romantic comedy (aka Calvacades), starring Agnés Roland, Maxime Desmons, Josy Bernard, Julien Lambroschini, Alain Rimous. Spanish Judges, is an action thriller, starring Vincent D'Onofrio (Men in Black, Full Metal Jacket), Matthew Lillard (Scooby Doo, She's All That) and Valeria Golino (Hot Shots, Rain Man).

French Minister of Culture and Communication Jean-Jacques Aillagon will be inaugurating the 18th MIPCOM on 7 October at 4:30 pm.

Meanwhile, World Wide Entertainment Group chairman John Bertrand, winner of the 1983 America’s Cup, will be attending MIPCOM.

Bertrand is the Australian skipper who took his ship, the Australia 2, to victory over Dennis Connor’s Liberty to win the 1983 America’s Cup, breaking 132 years of American reign, the longest running record in the history of modern sport. The Australia 2 team victory was voted by Australia’s Sports Hall of Fame as the greatest team performance in 200 years of Australian sport.

A World Champion and Olympic medallist, Bertrand represented Australia in five America's Cups and two Olympic Games.

Over his business career, he has successfully established businesses in the marine industry, property development industry and media industries. He is executive chairman of the television production and distribution company World Wide Entertainment. The company currently produces 4 weekly ½ hour sports shows: Sportspage (covering all international sports), Drive, Winning Women and On The Ball. WWE programmes are sold to 400 clients in approximately program 120 countries.