The future in question at Dijon Cinema Meetings
The must-see annual event for French and European film industry professionals, held by ARP (Association of Authors, Directors and Producers), the Dijon Film Meetings (ex Beaune) yesterday revealed its programme that will take place from October 18-21, 2007.
The programme of four debates will open with the subject of Competition Law, Economic Diversity and Cultural Policy. How to make them work together?, which, under its austere title, will touch on the central theme of the future of European cinema.
Faced with horizontal and vertical concentration, competition law aims to maintain the diversity of operators and protect the consumer from monopolies. But it also often presents an obstacle to regulation, favouring instead cultural policy, which is a potentially visible contradiction on a European level because cultural diversity allows no exceptions to the rules of the interior market nor to competition law.
Devoted to authors’ rights in the digital landscape, the second round table will analyse the impact of the Internet revolution on respect for authors’ rights and on creation against the backdrop of piracy and the construction of new economic models.
The Internet will also be the topic of the debate Which future for television with the arrival of Internet?, which will examine the changes that have been brought about by the convergence between the audiovisual and telecommunications sector, the increase in TV offers (cable, satellite, ADSL, free and fee-paying TNT), the boom in video on demand (sales, rental, subscription, SVOD), and the increase in file-sharing sites. This new, rapidly changing landscape is raising a number of questions regarding regulations to adopt and the diversity of cinematographic works.
The Dijon Film Meetings will close with a focus on The Cinema Theatre at the Heart of Cinema, which will look at the growth in exhibition, within the context of an increase in home consumption (TV, video and DVD, VOD); changes in the sociology of viewers with a young audience interested in entertainment and ageing cinephiles; the growing divide between the exhibition of films in a "superstore" style and another type of "specialised shop"; the plurality of cinemas threatened by the phenomenon of concentration and a redefinition of their identity in the digital landscape.
(Translated from French)
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