Europa Distribution elects new Board of Administration
by Cineuropa
Europa Distribution held its 2nd Annual Conference on November 20-22, during the Estoril Film Festival. Nearly 70 people attended the conference, among them around 50 independent European distributors.
In a time of big changes due to the arrival of new technologies in the European Film industry, it was important to focus the panels on the present and future of these distributors in an age of digital roll out and VoD. From the debates it emerged that it was essential for independent European distributors to be aware of the challenges they were facing and to unite in order to have a common position and find collective answers to these current issues.
Europa Distribution also held its General Assembly and elected its new Board of Administration. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have accepted to take over the Presidency of Honour of the association.
The new Board of Administration, chaired by Régine Vial (Les Films du Losange, France) and Antonio Medici (BIM, Italy), is composed of 13 independent European distributors, representative in terms of nationality, type of structure and cultural diversity:
Sofia Benard, Atalanta, Portugal
Marie Booberg, Folkets Bio, Sweden
Peggy Carajopoulou, PCV, Greece
Annemie Degryse, Lumière, Belgium
Edward Fletcher, Soda Pictures, UK
Luis Froes, Valentim, Portugal
Svend Jensen, Arthaus, Norway
Ania Jones, Notro, Spain
Etienne Ollagnier, Jour 2 Fête, France
Krisztina Paldy, Budapest Film, Hungary
Monika Weibel, Frenetic, Switzerland
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