Again as a result of high demand, the Video Director of the Year category is to be retitled as the Video Visionary Award, making it accessible to gifted content designers, producers and camera operators, as well as directors.

As recently announced, our celebrity host for the TPi Awards 2010 will be radio & TV presenter Chris Evans. Held on Monday 8 February 2010, the event will see a welcome return to the scene of much partying — the Novotel London West in Hammersmith.

After two years at Grosvenor House in London’s Park Lane, the Awards organisers have made the unanimous decision to make the event and on-site hotel accommodation more accessible to all levels of the live industry by returning to the Novotel - a move that takes into consideration a wide range of practical issues.

Mark Cunningham, TPi’s editor-in-chief and Awards creative director, commented: “We listened hard to all of the feedback to our Grosvenor House events and whilst many guests were delighted we had ‘upgraded’ to a more prestigious venue, they also missed the more informal ambience that the Novotel offered for our very sociable industry.

“Personally, I’m very comfortable with the decision and I’m sure that the benefits of notably lower bar prices, the absence of a bar curfew and the ability for guests to arrange after-hours parties in more affordable hotel suites will prove very popular... just as they were in the past!

“At the end of the day, it has always been the people who have created the atmosphere and made the TPi Awards the event it is.”

THE PSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Also returning to the Novotel is the popular daytime programme of the Production Services Association’s Annual General Meeting and Open Forum sessions, which will take place from 10am on February 8.

Providing a further reason to be in London, this programme offers PSA members and forward-thinking professionals the opportunity to keep up to date with critical industry issues.
    Contact Andy Lenthall at gm@psa.org.uk for full details.

BOOK...SPONSOR...VOTE!
As a special incentive, Mondiale Events is offering an attractive 10% ‘Early Bird’ discount on TPi Awards tables of 10 or 12 booked before September 1 2009.

TPi Awards 2010 sponsorship opportunities will be available in a number of ‘tiered’ formats, designed to promote brand awareness before, during and after the event.

Online voting at our dedicated awards web site, www.tpiawards.com will commence on September 1 and close on December 1.

Please contact Mondiale events manager Ben Chadwick at b.chadwick@mondiale.co.uk for full details of table bookings and sponsorship, or download a booking form by clicking the link at the top of the page.