Does public funding of co-productions have a future in the digital borderless world? And what is the story behind the creative new ways that Southeast Europe is tackling the challenges in cinema exhibition? These two topics are in focus at the European Film Forum, which Sarajevo Film Festival's Regional Forum will be hosting on August 20-21.
The Sarajevo Film Festival is the most important film festival in the region and gathers a growing number of professionals and a large audience.
The European Film Forum is an initiative from the European Commission, designed to create a structured dialogue between the policy makers and the stakeholders in the audiovisual sector. At the Film Forum event in Sarajevo, experts from the region and the rest of Europe will be looking closer at the recent exciting developments in the Southeast European cinema sector, and on co-production across the borders in a borderless digital world.
The topics to be discussed are:
Cinema exhibition sector: opportunities and challenges in Southeastern Europe
The cinema exhibition sector in Southeastern Europe is getting exciting. It is increasingly multiplexing, has a growing arthouse community, is experimenting with event cinema and has experienced several occupy cinema movements. Can it catch up with the more developed parts of the continent? Does the audience have an appetite for more? Where does it stand in the value chain of European films and where could it be in the future?
Public funding for coproductions: cooperating better across the borders in the borderless digital world
The ever-changing landscape of European film coproduction is opening up to territories across the world willing to coproduce in the European way. Meanwhile, the very notion of territoriality on which the system is based, is under pressure from global industry players and legislators alike. Which legal or financial instruments can public and private bodies which support national film industries use to work together better under the circumstances?
For details on speakers and the venue click here: http://www.sff.ba/en/news/10179/exhibition-and-co-production-in-the-borderless-world-to-be-discussed-at-sarajevo-film-festival
Screen International, a long-term partner of the Forum, is publishing a special report and statistics supplement in connection with the conference, which can be downloaded here: http://www.sff.ba/upload/documents/Screen-State-of-the-Region-2015.pdf
