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ORTSBO TO STREAM LIVE WEBCAST OF 2012 BANFF WORLD MEDIA FESTIVAL
Streaming on the Web in 53 Languages, Live Webcast Coverage will Stream Select Events from2012
Banff World Media Festival with Highlights Including Rockies Awards Gala, and Awards Presentations
and “Deal Makers” Programming Pitch Game Show
LOS ANGELES– (June 08, 2012) - Ortsbo – the world’s leading real-time experiential communications
platform, has partnered with the Banff World Media Festival – the largest and most important annual
gathering of entertainment industry and digital media executives in media content production – to
stream live web coverage from the 2012 festival. Highlights of the stream will include the 2012 Rockies
Awards Gala; numerous in-depth workshop sessions; ABC President Paul Lee’s opening CBC Keynote
address, and much more.
Each day of the Banff World Media Festival, from June 10 to June 14, entertainment and digital media
connoisseurs from around the world can watch select panels, keynotes and events from the festival live,
in any of Ortsbo’s 53 supported languages. Audiences can tune in to watch the coverage as follows:
Banff World Media Festival’s “Live & Global” Coverage Presented by Ortsbo
Live from the Banff World Media Festival in Banff, Canada
June 10 – 14, 2012
View Schedule and Watch Daily: https://www.banffmediafestival.com/
The 2012 Rockies Awards Gala, BANFF’s renowned international awards showcase hosted by Canadian /
Bollywood Actress Lisa Ray, will be the one of the highlights of the Ortsbo coverage. Held Tuesday, June
12th at 7:00 p.m. MDT, streamed live, and archived for later viewing.
“We are elated to bring the world’s leading international entertainment and digital media festival to a
global audience through the Ortsbo Live & Global platform,” said David Lucatch, CEO of Ortsbo.
“Connecting viewers around the world with a prestigious gathering of film, TV, digital media and
entertainment industry thought-leaders further expands the scope of high profile events that Ortsbo has
been privileged to broadcast with our real-time translation capabilities in 2012.”
Other highlights of the webcast will include BANFF’s newest 2012 interactive sessions and workshops,
including the unique “Deal Makers Live” game show pitting six contestants against a panel of discerning
judges to pitch and land a creative, cross-platform entertainment franchise.
“BANFF has always been an international event drawing people to Canada from around the world with
our amazing sessions, keynote speeches, awards presentations and more,” said Scott Benzie Director Of
Marketing for the World Media Festival. “This year, in working with Ortsbo and its ‘Live & Global’
streaming platform, we’re able to expand our global audience even further for people that are not able
to attend the festival in person but still want to experience the very best that The World Media Festival
has to offer.”
Using Ortsbo's proprietary, live subtitling technology on the Live & Global platform, viewers around the
world can watch the Banff World Media festival daily in real-time with closed captioning in any of
Ortsbo's 53 supported languages. The Banff World Media Festival’s coverage transforms the global
audience’s access to 2,000+ attendees including renowned actors, industry luminaries and thought
leaders from more than 30 countries around the world.
Ortsbo has hosted numerous successful “Live & Global” multi-lingual Q&A sessions including Marvel’s
recent worldwide premiere of “The Avengers,” and other broadcasts featuring Gene Simmons
interviewing the legendary Stan Lee at the Sundance Film Festival, a Steven Spielberg global event,
Variety Magazine’s coverage of the BAFTA Awards red carpet and Cannes Film Festival, a conversation
with the legendary Andretti IndyCar racing family and at the Classic Rock Awards at London’s
Roundhouse.
For more information about Ortsbo, visit: https://www.facebook.com/Ortsbo and follow the company on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ortsbo.
About Ortsbo.com
Now with over 100 million unique users in over 170 countries and territories, Ortsbo (www.ortsbo.com)
enables real-time conversational translation for more than 50 languages. Ortsbo’s flagship product for
social media supports global communications with instant translation capability and real-time, multi-
lingual social media chat. Ortsbo’s technologies support major social platforms including MSN, Google,
Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo!, as well as all major desktop and mobile operating systems, browsers and
devices. Ortsbo, based in Toronto and with offices in Los Angeles and New York, is a subsidiary of
Intertainment Media (www.intertainmentmedia.com).
On February 28, 2012, Intertainment Media announced that Intertainment and its Board of Directors
have reviewed various options for the spin out of its subsidiary Ortsbo Inc., and have elected to proceed
with a transaction structure that it believes will be the most favorable to the current security holders of
Intertainment. For further information, please refer to Intertainment Media’s announcement filed at
www.sedar.com.
About the Banff World Media Festival
The Banff World Media Festival is the world's largest and most important gathering of entertainment
industry and digital media executives dedicated to media content production, broadcast and distribution
within TV and digital media. BANFF provides a platform for the evolving media industry to develop its
creative and business objectives, serves as the leading destination for co-production and co-venture
partners and is an unparalleled destination for more than 2000 international decision-makers to meet,
learn and do business. The 33rd annual Banff World Media Festival will take place June 10-13, 2012 at
the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Canada. For more information, visit:
www.banffmediafestival.com
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