Year 2010


9th of June, Animarco-Regio meeting took place in Annecy, France.The members of the meeting had their focus on co-production and case-studies. The participants discussed how case-studies might be a way forward to substantiate, exemplify and increase the potential of joint co-productions between members of Cine-Regio. Another topic dicussed was: "Distribution of animation films in Europe and problems related to that".  

 

At the Film Festival, the MEDIA Programme of the European Union organised a meeting of film funds. The meeting was opened by the new commissioner Mrs Androulla Vassiliou and two topics were discussed:

  • What is the role of a film fund?
  • How to prepare film funds for the future?
In the afternoon, there was a conference open for all interested called "Shaping the Future of Cinema - Professionals meet film funds". 

 

17th of May, the 5th Cine-Regio General Assembly was held in Cannes. Board members elected for the term May 2010-2012: 

  • Mr. Søren Poulsen, The West Danish Film Fund, Denmark; 
  • Mr. Vincent Leclercq , CRRAV – Région Nord Pas de Calais,France;
  • Mr. Philippe Reynaert, Wallimage, Belgium
 

Guest speaker Susan Newman-Baudais from European Audiovisual Observatory, informed the members abouth the KORDA-database – with a special focus on regional film funds. Cine-Regio also welcomed one new member: Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen. 

Other topics discussed during the Assembly were: The Future of Cine-Regio; Collaborations between members; the CR Focus Report 2010: Digital Revolution. There were also announcements from the Cine-Regio subgroups Animarco-Regio, Docu-Regio and Kids-Regio.
 

 

17 March, 2010, the 2nd KIDS Regio meeting took place in Malmö, Sweden. During the day, Mr Michael Gubbins spoke about young people's use of new media, and there were two workshops held:  “Successful co-production: How to make most of the different financing strategies” and “Marketing and distribution: Challenging wonders from the front edge of the new media arena”.
 

 

15thof February, the Cine-Regio strategic meeting was held in Berlin. A sample of topics discussed were: Cine-Regio Vision & Strategy, the Korda database - a partnership agreement between European Audiovisual Observatory and Cine-Regio -  and a notification of film state aid schemes. 
Guestspeaker Mr. Gubbins made a presentation of the Cine-Regio Focus Report „Digital Distribution Revolution 2010“. 
 

 

On January 1st 2010, the Cine-Regio secretariat moved from Göteborg, Sweden to Århus, Denmark, with support from Region Central and Region North Denmark, the "home" of Cine-Regio member West Danish Film Fund. Chairman of Cine-Regio is Søren Poulsen, Manager of Filmby Århus.

In connection with the relocation of the secretariat, the kick off of the danish regional development project Cross Media was celebrated.
During the day there was an onstage debate called "Regional film production in the future" and a lecture by Michael Gubbins concerning his report "The Distribution Revolution".