Last week, the heart of Biarritz was beating to the Latin American rhythm for the 24th edition of the Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine. As each year, a focus on film was the occasion to award works and talents from this continent. Etienne Ollagnier from Jour2Fête (France), member of Europa Distribution, was part of the Long…
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European Distribution: Focus on the Netherlands
by Claire La Combe Whenever the film market of the Netherlands is mentioned, it is very often associated with its neighbour Belgium, as part of the “2nd rank markets” – those who fully participate in the general trend of the EU film Market, without being a dramatic player. Indeed, in terms of trends, it gently…
9th annual conference at Karlovy Vary IFF 2015
by Eva Morsch Kihn The 9th Europa Distribution annual conference, organized with the support of Creative Europe, took place from July the 5th to the 8th in the scope of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic. This event is part of a cycle of workshops organized by Europa Distribution all year round…
Step In roundtables in Locarno 2015
Europa Distribution was present in Locarno on August 9 for Step In roundtables, the festival’s initiative during which once a year, several professionals from all the value chain dedicate a full day to reflect together on problematics related to the film industry. Christine Eloy, General Manager of Europa Distribution, was moderating the table focusing on…
Discussing animation in Annecy
by Isabella Weber In the lively framework of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Europa Distribution gathered some of its members to discuss about animation on two separate occasions. In the morning of June the 17th, an internal workshop conceived for a small group of distributors of the network took place. Later, on the…
Diverge by James Morrison, award of the 4th edition of US in Progress in Paris
by Claire La Combe DIVERGE, first feature film by the American James Morrison, has just won the prize of the 4th edition of US in progress Paris. The jury, composed by ten different professionals, including Christelle Oscar (Haut et Court, France) as member of Europa Distribution, elected this project among four other works-in-progress presented during…
European Distribution: Focus on Belgium
by Isabella Weber While the debate on the “Digital Single Market” is still a hot topic of discussion for the whole European Film Industry, Europa Distribution continues its internal survey to explore the current situation of Film Distribution in each European country. Belgium. A split territory surrounded by bigger markets At first sight the Belgium…
EU struggle on creative rights: in who’s best interest?
EU struggle on creative rights: in who’s best interest? by Claire La Combe Next Monday, April 27th, will be held an “extraordinary meeting” of the EU Parliament Committee on Culture & Education (CULT) in Strasbourg, with Commissioner Andrus Ansip (VP. For DG Connect) on the future strategy for a Digital Single Market…
Desde allá wins the European Distributors & Exhibitors Prize in Toulouse
From March 27 to 28, Europa Distribution was in Toulouse to award along with the CICAE the European Distributors and Exhibitors Prize for the 27th edition of Cine en Construcción, an event organized jointly by Toulouse and San Sebastian whose aim is to present top Latin-American films in post-production phase. The jury was composed…
Lobby March
by Claire La Combe This past month of March was kind of a renaissance of lobbying within the European film industry. Stakeholder organisations might not have been taking that many actions toward the European Commission since Cannes 2013 – when the TTIP[1] negotiations were to include cultural works – and maybe toward the European…