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Social Media in 2010
February 19th, 2010
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Two months into 2010, if you took the TIME to browse the Internet … you probably noticed that left and right, a whole lot of people are getting worked up on social media as being the next big thing … What does it mean for the Film Industry … and should it be taken seriously? [...]
Evolutions in film Financing (4/4)
January 29th, 2010
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In partnership with the Biz and Tech Lab The day of conferences was concluded with a panel dedicated to the evolutions in film financing, moderated by producer Eric Neve (La Chauve-Souris) and a panel composed of Gael Nouaille (Sales at Wild Bunch), Vicente Canales (Director of Sales – Filmax) Gustavo Ferrada (Head of Cinema – [...]
The legal offers and the fight against piracy (3/4)
January 20th, 2010
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In partnership with The Biz and Tech Lab First of all, Rafael Cabrera, in charge of promotion at ICAA, started by strongly asserting that Spain was the Paradise on Earth of Internet Piracy, because there is state-of-the-art technological networks and a total absence of normative laws (Spain considered that illicit sharing of content over the [...]
Presentation of the French and Spanish Cinema Markets (2/4)
January 16th, 2010
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In partnership with The Biz and Tech Lab Benoît Danard, head of research, statistics and prospective at the CNC, started by presenting the French Market : 2008 was a great year for Cinema in France with more than 200 million admissions and a 5.7% increase due to the film offer, to renovated screening facilities, and [...]
The 3rd Franco-Spanish Cinema Meetings organised by Unifrance (1/4)
January 15th, 2010
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in partnership with The Biz and Tech Lab. Unifrance organised for the third consecutive year the Franco-Spanish Cinema Meetings in Paris in order to cast light on these two markets, whose interactions are unfortunately limited, notwithstanding the reciprocal affection felt by these two countries on many accounts… Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre, Unifrance’s President, opened the [...]
Film Festivals in 2010 …
January 11th, 2010
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Festivals, Audience, and Social Media… Festivals are essential to the proper development and marketing of audiovisual content; they allow for professionals to scout new talent, to meet their peers, exchange and build trustworthy relationships essential to the production/monetization of a high-risk prototype industry such as filmmaking. Festivals are also increasingly becoming a platform where core [...]
Niche vs Massmarket and the pricing of online content…
December 1st, 2009
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Lemon Pie In the Market for Lemons, the economist George Akerlof talks of used cars … There are good used cars and defective used cars (“lemons”), but because of asymmetric information about the car (the seller knows much more about the problems of the car than the buyer), the buyer of a car does not [...]
Midnight in the (online) garden of Good and Evil…
November 21st, 2009
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by Pierre-Alexandre Labelle, In a ever-changing context well known to most of you visiting this blog; it seems that a fundamental (almost ethical) question remains concerning the woes and virtues of the disruptions caused by the Internet… I will not venture into bluntly asking the question: Is the Internet good or bad for filmmakers … [...]
Third Europa Distribution Annual Conference – Estoril Film Festival November 12-14 2009
November 7th, 2009
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Some news from our cool friends Europa Distribution. With the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Europa Distribution will hold its 3rd annual Conference in Estoril (Portugal) during the Estoril Film Festival 2009, from Thursday 12 November to Saturday 14 November 2009. 53 Distributors from 19 European countries and 26 international speakers [...]
