DigiTraining Plus 2010: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies
17 – 21 February 2010, Helsinki
Course programme
Wednesday, 17 February Thursday, 18 February Friday, 19 February Saturday, 20 February Sunday, 21 February

 

Breakfast at the Hotel

Breakfast at the Hotel

Breakfast at the Hotel

Breakfast at the Hotel

Individual arrivals to Helsinki

(before check-in time the hotel will keep the participants’ luggage in its luggage room)


8.45 am
Transfer to the Finnish Film Foundation Auditorium (walking distance from the Best Western Premier Hotel Katajanokka)

Open door session, in collaboration with the MEDIA Desk Finland:

9.00 am
Welcome message by Kerstin Degerman, MEDIA Desk Finland

9.10 am
Leena Laaksonen, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education and Culture

9.40 am
Digital screens: how many and where?
by Elisabetta Brunella, Secretary General of MEDIA Salles

10.00 am
Coffee break

10.20 am
The digital cinema chain: “Year 11 and Still Talking About the Rollout”, presentation by Michael Karagosian, MKPE

11.35 am
Q&A session

12.00 pm
Focus on Russia
- Oleg Berezin, Managing Director of Nevafilm, Russia

12.30 pm
Q&A session


12.45 pm
End of the Open door session

Lunch for the course participants at the Finnish Film Foundation

8.30 am
Transfer by bus (from the hotel)

Significant experiences from Finland

9.10 am
arrival to Bio Grand

Visit to Bio Grand, Tikkurila – Presentation by Kimmo Lohman, Cinema Manager

10.15 am
departure from Bio Grand

Coffee break

11.00 am
Visit to Flamingo Cinema, Vantaa

“D-cinema: what cinema owners don’t know or normally forget to think about”: presentation by Ari Saarinen, Technical supervisor and Manager, Finnkino

12.15 pm
end of visit

Participants are free for lunch at the Flamingo Shopping Center

1.30 pm
departure from Flamingo Cinema

8.30 am
Transfer by bus (from the hotel)

Significant experiences from Finland

9.15 am
Visit to Biorex – Sello, Espoo

10.00 am
Demo 3D live
presented by Walter Munarini, OpenSky

10.45 am
Coffee Break

11.00 am
Presentation of “Digital Alfie” by Frauke Feuer, Peaceful Fish

11.30 am
Q&A session

12.00 pm
Participants are free for lunch at the Sello Shopping Center

 

8.45 am
Course evaluation

11.15 am
Course closure

12.00 pm
End of the course


AFTERNOON

AFTERNOON

AFTERNOON

AFTERNOON

AFTERNOON

Check in at the Best Western Premier Hotel Katajanokka and registration at the course

3.30 pm
Transfer to the Finnish Film Foundation Auditorium (at walking distance from the Best Western Premier Hotel Katajanokka)

Coffe and tea
Participants will be invited to fill in the pre-course questionnaire

Welcome speeches by the organisers and partners

4.00 pm
- Michael Vickers, Treasurer of MEDIA Salles

4.15 pm
- Irina Krohn, Head of the Finnish Film Foundation

4.30 pm
Digital cinemas in Finland: the state of art and the perspectives

- Tero Koistinen, CEO, Finnish Chamber of Films

5.00 pm
Presentation of the course structure, by Anthony Williams, Moderator of the course

5.30 pm
Who’s who at the course:
presentation of participants

6.45 pm
Return to the Hotel

2.00 pm
Business models – part 1: an overview by Michael Karagosian, MKPE

2.45 pm Q&A session

3.10 pm
The Scandinavian situation

Harri Ahokas, Head of Domestic Distribution, Finnish Film Foundation

- Ramon Reissmüller, Digitalt Projekt, Swedish Film Institute (Sweden)

- Rolv Gjestland, Adviser in cinema technology and design, Film & Kino (Norway)

- Jan Petersen, IT manager of Nordisk Film Biografer (Denmark)

4.20 pm
Q&A session

4.40 pm
Other experiences from Europe
- Daniel Hromadko, from BrickBox Digital Media, Czech Republic
- Marieke Jonker, Amstelfilm, The Netherlands
5.30 pm
Q&A session

5.45 pm
3D Digital screening and presentation by
Ami Dror, XpanD

6.30 pm
Q&A session

6.45 pm
End of session

At the Finnish Film Foundation Auditorium

2.30 pm
The digital transition seen from the side of distribution
Digitalisation: a chance for a wider choice offered to cinema spectators (session on contents: films and alternative contents) – part 1
By

Erik Hamre, Emerging Pictures, Denmark
Pilvi Burman, FS Film, Finland

Pilvi Burman, FS Film, Finland

Fabrice Testa, Vice President Sales & Business Development XDC

3.30 pm
Q&A session

3.45 pm
Coffee Break

4.00 pm
The role of integrators
- part 1:

Fabrice Testa, Vice President Sales & Business Development XDC

Screening of a selection of excerpts of European digital movies, with the collaboration of XDC

4.30 pm
Q&A session

4.45 pm
Transfer by bus to the National Audiovisual Archive (KAVA)

5.30 pm
4K screening introduced by Mikko Kuutti, Deputy Director of KAVA and Tore Mortensen, Sony Norge

6.30 pm
Return by bus to town centre - hotel

At the Finnish Film Foundation Auditorium

2.00 pm
Digitalisation: a chance for a wider choice offered to cinema spectators (session on contents: alternative contents) – part 2
Guillaume Thomine-Desmazures, Arts Alliance Media

2.20 pm
Q&A session

2.30 pm
Business models – part 2: an overview of public support for digitalisation in Europe by Jonathan Davis

3.45 pm
Q&A session

4.00 pm
The role of integrators
- part 2:
 
Guillaume Thomine-Desmazures, Arts Alliance Media

4.30 pm
Q&A session

4.40 pm
Cinema in 2020 – sneak peek into the future - Tommi Rissanen, Dicole

Final statements

 

 

8.30 pm
Opening dinner at Scandic Gran Marina Restaurant (at walking distance from the Best Western Premier Hotel Katajanokka)

Participants are free for Helsinki sightseeing and dinner

Participants are free for Helsinki sightseeing and dinner

Closing dinner

 
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