Booklet ED Conference in Paris
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1 Index Page Programme 3 Speakers 5 Case Study 10 List of participants 11 Recent line-up of the participants 12 Useful information 29 Map 30 About Europa Distribution 31 2 Programme of the conferences Monday 5th July • 3:00–5:30pm : ED work session -New business models (moderated by Mickael Gubbins and Antonio Medici) -Cidinet -Miscellaneous questions • 5:45-6:45pm : General Assembly - 7:00–8:30pm: Screening of “Los colores de la montana” by Carlos César Arbeláez – Cine en Construccion award (petit amphithéâtre) • 9:30pm : Europa Distribution dinner – La Tute Restaurant Tuesday 6th July morning: Case studies and line-up presentations (closed) • 9:30am: Case study on “Le quattro Volte” by Michelangelo Frammartino– (Europa cinemas award) The Four Times works within the gulf between documentary and fiction, and can be understood in three different ways. It can be seen as a science fiction film without special effects, or as an ethnographic documentary on some parts of the Calabrian Appennine, or as an essay about the human soul. International agent: Coproduction office – Fionnuala Jamison (France) Distributors: Istituto Luce – Claudia Bedoni (Italy) / Les Films du Losange – Régine Vial (France) / Eye Film Institute - René Wolf (Netherlands) Break • 11-12:30pm: Line-up presentation: Bankside Films (UK) – Laure Vaysse - Outcast by Colm McCarthy - Bran Nue Dae by Rachel Perkins Autlookfilms (Austria) – Peter Jager -Into Eternity by Michael Madsen -Reindeer Spotting by Joonas Neuvonen Coproduction office (France) – Fionnula Jamison M-Appeal (Germany) – Maren Kroymann • 1pm: Lunch – Café B restaurant (MK2 Bibliothèque) 3 Tuesday 6th July afternoon: workshop on coproduction The distributors-producers become more and more numerous: Stakes in this double cap in a film panorama modified by the digital technology • 2:30-5pm : General panel SPEAKERS FOR THE GENERAL PANEL: Moderation : Eurimages – Licia Eminenti European Producers Club - Alexandra Lebret Back up (financial compagny) - Pascal Guerrin Distributor-producer: Lumiere - Annemie Degryse European producers: Pandora Film - Raimond Goebel / Filmkameratene - John Jacobsen European distributor / producers (in the room) • 5:30-6:30pm : projects in Production: pitches The Trollhunter - Filmkameratene (Norway) Miscellaneous projects – Pandora -Germany) Götz presented by its directors Hakki Kurtulus & Melik Saracoglu • 7pm: Korean Film Council Cocktail Party - Limelight (MK2 Bibliothèque) Wednesday 7th July: Paris Project activities Attend screenings of films in postproduction, and meet the representatives of selected projects in development! • 9 am : Paris Project Breakfast - Limelight (MK2 Bibliothèque) • 10 am-1 pm: Paris Project Screenings of films in postproduction – Screening Room 11 (MK2 Bibliothèque) • 1-2.30 pm: Paris Project Lunch - Café B (MK2 Bibliothèque) • 2.30-7 pm Paris Project Meetings - BnF Bélvédere Please book your meetings with the participants of projects in development on the following link http://www.pariscinema.org/fr/programmes-2010/parisproject.html • 7 pm: Paris Project Cocktail Party - Limelight (MK2 Bibliothèque) • 9 pm: Taiwan Cocktail Party / Closing of Paris Project - Limelight (MK2 Bibliothèque) 4 Speakers: Monday 05th of July: Moderators: -Michael Gubbins: Michael Gubbins is a journalist and consultant, specialising in digital change in the film and the wider media. He was formerly editor of Screen International and has written for newspapers and magazines, including The Times and Time Out. He has also made frequent appearances on television, including the BBC's flagship film programme, ABC News and Channel Four. Gubbins has spoken at more than 50 festivals and events, including Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and Hong Kong and has chaired major events including debates at Europa Cinemas, the European Film Market and the European Parliament. He is on a member of advisory board of Power To The Pixel and BAFTA Learning And Events and a director of the Screenwriters Festival. He has acted as a consultant or written reports for bodies including the UK Film Council, the Swedish Film Institute and CineRegio. -Antonio Medici (Bim Distribuzione, Italy): He is the General Director of Bim Distribuzione and of Q-Media, a video distribution company. After graduating in Political Sciences and in Cinema Management (EAVE, ANICA Master), he started working at the International Movie Company (distribution company) as a buyer. He is currently Europa Distribution’s vice president. Bim Distribuzione: For over 25 years BIM Distribuzione has been the major distributor of European and international independent films in Italy. We have also co-produced with well respected directors such as Ken Loach, Michael Haneke and Francis Ford Coppola. Last films released: Persepolis, We own the night, My blueberry nights, Be kind rewind… 5 Tuesday 06th of July: Case Study: -Fionnuala Jamison (Coproduction Office, France): Coproduction Office started as a sales and production label in 1987. After launching the sales division of Coproduction Office one year later, the company acquired world distribution rights for films by Lars von Trier, Nanni Moretti, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, and Wolfgang Becker. The company’s first project, "Europa" by Lars von Trier, won the Cannes Jury Prize 1991. After "The Kingdom" and "Breaking the Waves" , Philippe worked as a producer (or co- producer) with Carlos Reygadas, Roy Andersson, Jessica Hausner, Kornél Mundruczó and Ulrich Seidl. Coproduction Office’s slate also includes international sales for films by, among others, Takashi Miike, Cristi Puiu and Corneliu Porumboiu. The company is the smallest of the established sales and production companies, and a home for radical arthouse films, where talent is nurtured. "The Man Who Hides The Forest" is the company’s first production with a French filmmaker -Régine Vial (Les Films du Losange, France): She started as a French teacher and running the theatre Le France in Saint Etienne. She also directed two movies for children in 16mm. From 1983 to 1986, she worked for Gaumont as manager of the school division. Since 1986, she is responsible of the distribution for the Films du Losange. She participated to several commissions for the CNC: selective help for distribution, selective production support, help to the cinematographies with small diffusion, help to the classification of art-house theatres. Since 2006, she is also vice president of Europa Distribution with Antonio Medici. Line-up presentations: -Laure Vaysse (Bankside Films, UK): Laure Vaysse joined Bankside Films in August 2008 to work on sales and financing structures. Bankside is the international sales company co-founded by Phil Hunt, Hilary Davis, Stephen Kelliher, Greg Cruttwell and Compton Ross in January 2007. Prior to Bankside Films Laure graduated from Cass Business School in London with an MSc in Film Business and from the EDHEC Business School in Lille, France with a masters in Management. Between 2005-2006 she spent a year working in Paris on finance and marketing for film releases at TF1 and Studiocanal. 6 -Peter Jager (Autlookfilms, Austria): Born in 1968 in Belgium, Peter studied law and philosophy. As a young filmfreak, Peter helped to create a new filmmagazine with fellow students and became ‘Commercial and Marketing Director’. Following his passion for film Peter became ʻMarketing and Acquisitions Consultantʼ for several major independent filmdistributors and filmexhibitors. In 2005, together with Austrian production companies, Peter founded and became ‘Managing Director’ of Autlook Filmsales. Docs like ‘Our Daily Bread’ and ‘Blind Loves` were sold worldwide to theatrical distributors. Workshop on coproduction: Moderator: -Licia Eminenti (Eurimages): Licia Eminenti is graduated in Litterature at Florence University. She has always been close to the music and theatre world organising and getting involved in many cultural events both in Italy and France (Arezzo Wave, Cinewave, Semaine Dada, Archaos circus) and following different theatre companies (Bottega teatrale dell'attore, Magazzini Crimin- ali, Giovanna Marini). She worked as administrator for the cinematografic European coproduction Funds, Eurim- ages, and she was in charge of the international sales for Gemini Films. She has been expert/reader for Arte France Cinema and she continues her collaboration with the Eurimages Funds as expert, as well with Media Program. She’s one of the mem- ber who founded the BLAC (Collectif for the cultural action for cinema and audiovisual), teaches "image" in several workshops (mainly colleges but also out school time). She oc- casionally collaborates to the cinema review "Cahiers du cinema". INTIMISTO (23'30'') selected in many Festivals in the world and in competition to La Bien- nale di Venezia 2001, receveid many Prices, among others The Critic price Novaïs-Texeira 2001, The Price for the best first short film Lille 2002, The Public Price Strasbourg-Mainz 2002… LA PETITE FILLE (19’) it's her second short was presented in the "Semaine de la cri- tique", (Cannes Films Festival 2003). FRATERNITAS (17'30’’) in 2007, has been shown at Brest europeen short Film Festival, and in the Panorama HD, section Research and Innova- tion. She's prepearing the documentary "The Female Domination" and finalising the script of her first long feature film. Panelists: -Pascal Guerrin (Back up, France): Pascal Guerrin joined in 2006 Backup Films, a Paris-based Film Financing Agency. ESSEC Business School graduate, Pascal is head of co-productions for Backup Films. 7 Entirely