Robert Guédiguian to preside over Dijon Film Meetings
- The minister of culture, television channel heads, filmmakers, and producers are among 600 professionals to attend the ARP’s 2012 Dijon Film Meetings
A highly valued event for French and European professionals examining the film industry’s tendencies, the 22nd edition of the Civil Society of Writers-Directors-Producers (ARP)’s Dijon Film Meetings (from October 18 to 20) are to be presided over by filmmaker Robert Guédiguian (Agat Films & Cie). The event’s 600 guests and speakers this year are to include France’s new minister of culture Aurélie Filipetti, Eric Garandeau (president of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC)), Rodolphe Belmer (director general of Canal+), Rémy Pfilmlin (president of France Télévisions), Aviva Silver (unit head of the MEDIA Programme), José Antonio de Luna (the Spanish co-founder of Filmin and content director for Cameo), Pascal Rogard (general director of the SACD), Bruno Delecour (director of Filmo TV), as well as producers Marc Missonnier (Fidélité Films), Antoine Rein (Delante Films), and Rebecca O’Brien (Sixteen Films).
The ARP (now presided over by Oscar-winning film director Michel Hazanavicius - read more) has planned five debates: "What space for VoD platforms in the European film ecosystem?", "Can one still talk of cultural exception in a digital Europe?", "Independent cinema faces new threats - What are the conditions for independents’ access to cinemas in the digital era?", "Does funding concentration affect independent cinema’s diversity?", and "Will auteurs and producers' private copies survive the advent of cloud computing?"
The programme is also to include four film premieres in the presence of their director and crew. These films will be Valérie Donzelli’s Hand in Hand (read more), Romanian directorCristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cosmina Stratan
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Cristian Mungiu
film profile], a film that was awarded in Cannes, Brigitte Roüan’s A Greek Type of Problem co-produced by France and Greece (article), and Costa Gavras’s Capital (read more).
(Translated from French)
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