Our president of honour Ursula Meier delivered a speech during our General Assembly as an opening to her three years presidency for Europa Distribution. I am Swiss, French ; I live in Brussels and deeply feel an European filmmaker. Europe is a mosaic of cultures and this is what makes its great richness and its…
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Open panel in Rome – New patterns of film marketing and distribution
The whole film industry knows it well : the digital era has brought many changes in the daily work of its stakeholders but also in the audience’s habits and expectations. In order to keep up, you have to adapt and think about new strategies. In Rome, Europa Distribution in partnership with The Business Street organised an…
Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine – Retour à Ithaque and Las Busquedas awarded
The 23rd Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine ended on Sunday 5th October. As each year, the festival was the occasion to discover and award quality latino films. Europa Distribution has a partnership with Biarritz and selects with the festival a member to be part of the Long Feature Films Jury. This year, it is Joan Aguilar…
European Distribution : Focus on Spain
European Distribution : Focus on Spain Distribuidores al borde de un ataque de nervios? by Birgit Heidsiek Due to the economic crisis, the tremendous increase of ticket prices, the lack of a young target audience and not least piracy, it has become difficult to release European art house films in Spain. The total number…
All about television – Report on Locarno workshop 2014
All about television by Birgit Heidsiek Television deals are essential for independent distributors in order to finance their MG’s and P & A. But in many European countries there is a trend towards less slots for art house movies in the programmes of the public broadcasters. At the Europa Distribution workshop in Locarno „About the…
FNE Distributor of the Month: Robert Berberih, Continental Film, Croatia
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance of domestic film festivals in releasing new titles. We will also be looking at what distributors can do in order to prevent piracy. This month…
Summary of our conference in Annecy 2014 – Connecting with the Public from the Production Phase: Keys to Success for a Brilliant Distribution
From June 10-12, Europa Distribution was in Annecy for a workshop on animation with its members. We also organised in partnership with Mifa, an open panel : Connecting with the Public from the Production Phase: Keys to Success for a Brilliant Distribution. To know more about what was discussed and what were the conclusions, click…
Panel in Karlovy Vary – July 7 2014
This year, Europa Distribution was present in Karlovy Vary for an open panel organised in cooperation with Karlovy Vary IFF and the LUX Prize of European Parliament. It took place on Monday 07/07/2014, from 10:00 to 12:00 at Barrandov Studios’ Villa (Becher´s Villa), Krále Jiřího 9. « Supporting ‘fragile’ films – a realistic dream ? » Arthouse films…
Day and Date : Experiment in Progress
by Birgit Heidsiek Due to the impact of the digitization, cinema is not anymore the cinema as we knew it – this is not only true in terms of technique but also in regards to the choice of content, the concept of programming, the exploitation potential of a film as well as the…
The EU Copyright Consultation: The Nightmare before Christmas
The public consultation on the European copyright framework which was launched by the EU right before Christmas has alarmed authors, producers, distributors, exhibitors all over Europe. The efforts regarding the revision and modernization of the copyright affect the territorial rules in the single market, the harmonization, restrictions and exceptions of the copyright in the digital…