Participants arrive in Amsterdam

9.00 am
Gathering at the EYE Film Institute - IJ Lounge

9.30 am - Cinema 2
Session open to players from the Dutch cinema industry and representatives of public institutions

Digitalization in Europe and worldwide:
facts and figures, by Elisabetta Brunella, Secretary General of MEDIA Salles

Summing up the technology: 2K, 4K, 3D, High Frame Rates. What are the developments? By Peter Wilson (EDCF)

11.00 am
Coffee break

11.30 am - Cinema 2
Digitisation has reached the watershed. What's next? By Michael Karagosian (MKPE)

Q&A session

12.30 pm
End of session

7.45 am
Departure from Ibis Centre Hotel to Zeist by private coach

9.00 am
Keyword: distribution
Visit to Gofilex

From 35mm to cable delivery, by Paul Huis in 't' Veld, Director of Gofilex

10.30 am
Departure from Zeist

11.00 am
Coffee break in Houten

Visit to the service cinema CineLounge in Houten. Presentation by Annemieke McCabe

12.15 pm
Journey to the Sound and Image Institute in Hilversum by private coach

1.00 pm
Welcome message at the Sound and Image Institute - Theater Room 2, by Geert Wissink, Head of Program Office

8.00 am
Departure from Ibis Centre Hotel to Edam by private coach

9.00 am
Journey from Edam to Hoorn by boat
Courtesy of dcinex

10.30 am
Visit to the Cinema Oostereiland, the new, all-digital art-house cinema, in the town of Hoorn.

Welcome coffee

Screening of the film presenting the cinema

11.30 am
The opportunities and risks of digital technologies for quality programming, by Margret Wagenaar, Manager of the Cinema Oostereiland

11.50 am
Presentation of the research carried out by Filmonderzoek, by Jorien Scholtens

12.05 pm
Session on content: alternative digital content by Christine Costello (More2Screen)

Q&A session

12.30 pm
End of session

9.00 am
At the EYE Film Institute

Course evaluation by participants

Question and answer session

Conclusion of the course

12.00 pm
End of session

1.15 pm
Lunch at the Sound and Image Institute Café
 

At the EYE Film Institute - IJ Lounge

2.30 pm
Welcome coffee
Courtesy of the MEDIA Desk Nederland

Registration

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

3.15 pm - Cinema 3
Welcome address by organizers and partners

- Mike Vickers, Treasurer of MEDIA Salles

- Ido Abram, Director of Presentation & Communications at the EYE Film Institute

- Ron Sterk, Managing Director of Dutch exhibitors association NVB and Cinema Digitaal

- Dominique Van Ratingen, Director of MEDIA Desk Nederland

3.50 pm
Presentation of course structure and content by Mads Egmont Christensen, course moderator

4.30 pm
Coffee break

5.00 pm
Visit to the EYE Film Institute and its exhibition areas: new technologies working on behalf of the enjoyment of cinematographic material from the past and present and of alternative content.

6.00 pm - Cinema 3
Screening of digital high quality and experimental content by CineGrid.
Thomas Scholz, 4K Project Space Manager of CineGrid, will present a cross section of 4K footage from the realm of scientific research and artistic practice.

At the EYE Film Institute

12.30 pm
Group work: overview of the participants' experiences in the field of the new technologies

2.00 pm - Cinema 2
Presentation of the group work

2.30 pm
D-cinema financing in Europe: an overview, by Olivier Hillaire (Manice)

3.10 pm
Public support for digitalization as a tool for encouraging the circulation of domestic and European films

The role of the MEDIA Programme, by Silvana Pasqualino (EACEA)

3.30 pm
A comparison of economic models: Experiences in Europe.

- The Polish model, by Ania Sienkiewicz, Head of Dept of Education on Film Culture (Polish Film Institute)

- The Dutch model, by Ron Sterk, Managing Director of NVB and Cinema Digitaal

Q&A session

4.30 pm
Coffee break

5.00 pm - Cinema 2
How to get the most out of your digital system, by
Sébastien Nicolas, Supply Chain Director of dcinex

Q&A session

6.00 pm
End of session

2.00 pm
Visit to the Sound and Image Institute in Hilversum - Theater Room 2

Conserving and digitizing the cultural audiovisual heritage
Presentation: Images of the Future, by Thijs van Exel (Knowledge Land)

Coffee break

Access and Use of the Audiovisual Collection of Sound and Vision and European projects regarding digital preservation and access
by Geert Wissink, Head of Program Office, in collaboration with Eveline Ferwerda (Cinema Digitaal)

4.00 pm
Group work and guided visit in groups to the Archives and Film Digitalization Lab.
Groups are asked to outline a cinema-adaptable emotional experience (exhibition, show, performance etc.) based on digitally preserved audiovisual content.

5.30 pm
Return to Amsterdam by private coach

Expected arrival at Ibis Centre Hotel at 6.30 pm

At the EYE Film Institute

3.00 pm - Cinema 2
The Dutch digital landscape: introduced by Frank De Neeve (Cineserver) and Marieke Jonker (Amstelfilm)

Keyword: flexibility seen through the eyes of filmmakers independent distributors and exhibitors

Q&A session

4.30 pm
Coffee break

5.00 pm - Cinema 2
New Features: Accessibility and Other New Features, by Michael Karagosian

Q&A session

6.00 pm
Future perspectives for the cinema experience, by Thomas Hoegh (Arts Alliance Media)

Recommendations for the future

7.00 pm
End of session

Departure of participants from Amsterdam

Participants make their own dinner arrangements and
receive tickets for
Tuschinski 1, upon request