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'''TVF Media''' is an independent multimedia company, which was founded in 1983 by Hilary Lawson. Its divisions are '''TVF Communications''', '''TVF International''', '''TVF Productions''', '''Online Post Production''', [[Online Creative Communications]], the [[Open Gallery]], the [[Institute of Art and Ideas]], the '''Globe at Hay''', and '''Clifton Hotels Ltd'''. Located in central London, it encompasses areas such as television programming, international distribution, post production, communications for the healthcare and educational sectors, and video art.<ref>http://www.tvf.co.uk/company.html</ref>
'''TVF Media''' is an independent multimedia company, which was founded in 1983 by Hilary Lawson. Its divisions are '''TVF Communications''', '''TVF International''', '''TVF Productions''', '''Online Post Production''', [[Online Creative Communications]], the [[Open Gallery]], the [[Institute of Art and Ideas]], the '''Globe at Hay''', and '''Clifton Hotels Ltd'''. Located in central London, it encompasses areas such as television programming, international distribution, post production, communications for the healthcare and educational sectors, and video art.<ref>http://www.tvf.co.uk/company.html</ref>



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TVF Media is an independent multimedia company, which was founded in 1983 by Hilary Lawson. Its divisions are TVF Communications, TVF International, TVF Productions, Online Post Production, Online Creative Communications, the Open Gallery, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Globe at Hay, and Clifton Hotels Ltd. Located in central London, it encompasses areas such as television programming, international distribution, post production, communications for the healthcare and educational sectors, and video art.[1]

During its early years, TVF created a number of award-winning programmes, amongst which was The World This Week, a weekly current-affairs show on Channel 4, and winner of the Gold Award at the New York Television and Film Festival. TVF won The Emily Award in 1991 at the American Film and Video Festival, and The Amnesty International Award in 1995 for best documentary.

Productions included Mysteries of the Cocaine Mummies, Sacred Weeds, Greenhouse Conspiracy—a polemic for Equinox which was nominated as runner-up in the Shell Cawston Prize, 1991—and Dancing with the Devil, winner of the Critics Prize, Prix Danube and nominated for the BFI Grierson Award.

TVF was described by the Hereford Times as "the UK's leading distributor of documentaries."[2]

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