New Technologies for the European Cinemas of the Future Cracow and Warsaw, 28 August 1 September 2013 Presentation of course structure and content By Elisabetta Brunella Secretary General of MEDIA Salles
Wednesday 28 August 2.30 pm Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room Welcome coffee Participants are invited to fill in the pre-course questionnaire and give it back to Sara The survey on cinemas and digitization must be kept for the group work
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 3.00 pm Welcome address by organizers and partners
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room - Mike Vickers, Treasurer of MEDIA Salles - Renata Pawlowska-Pyra The Polish Film Institute - Marta Materska-Samek President of the Fundacja Rozwoju Kina
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room Other key people for the success of this course: Francesca Mesiano (administration and coordination of presentations) Sara Cipolla (logistics and questionnaires any problems with your room?)
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 3.45 pm Presentation of course structure and content
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 4.15 pm Coffee break in groups Presentation of participants Comparison of experiences on the basis of the survey Choice of the group name (why this name?) Preparation of the group presentation in front of the audience (4 minutes maximum)
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 5.00 pm Digitization: where do we stand? Digitization in Europe: facts and figures by Elisabetta Brunella, Secretary General of MEDIA Salles
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 5.30 pm The end of the rollout is near and what that means to you by Michael Karagosian, MKPE Q&A Session
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 8.00 pm Transfer to Kijów.Centrum by public transport (2 group tickets already available for 20 people each - first group with Sara meeting point in the lobby) Bus stop in front of the hotel, on the other side of the road
Wednesday 28 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 8.30 pm Opening dinner at the Filmowa Cafè of the Kijów.Centrum Welcome message by Ryszard Rutkowski Visit of the cinema and screening of trailers 11.00 pm End of the programme participants go back to HGI on their own (busses 144, 164, 173 just outside Kijów ticket cost 2.80 PLN from machine taxi or icar about 12 PLN)
Thursday 29 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 8.00 8.30: Hotel check-out. All luggage must be brought to the luggage room Extra luggage that you don't need may stay there until your return from Warsaw 8.30 am The Polish Digital landscape and the support of the Polish Film Institute by Renata Pawlowska-Pyra 9.00 am Technical session by Emidio Frattaroli, AV Magazine Q&A session
to DigiTraining Plus: Thursday 29 August Hilton Garden Inn - Terral Conference room 10.00 am Coffee break Exhibition of posters on experiences presented by the participants Give your material (posters and/or leaflets etc.) to Sara immediately at the end of today's session Group work introduced by the presentation of case histories, starting with Marco Fraschini (Multiplex Le Giraffe Paderno Dugnano, IT), Riccardo Bizzarri (Cinema Zenith Perugia, IT) and Michael Tilios (Odeon, GR) 11.30 am: END OF SESSION
Thursday 29 August 11.30 am TRANSFER TO BONARKA BY PRIVATE BUS Free time at Bonarka shopping mall (far from the city centre good for shopping, not good for sightseeing) including lunch on your own Afternoon session will start at 1.00 pm
Thursday 29 August Bonarka shopping mall 1.00 pm Visit of the Bonarka cinema Presentation of the Cinema City strategy with focus on Interactivity (Cinemapark) by Krzysztof Indyk, Regional Director of Cinema City in Southern Poland
ts DigiTraining Plus: Thursday 29 August 3.30 pm TRANSFER TO WARSAW BY PRIVATE BUS 8.45 pm Arrival in Warsaw Check-in at the Campanile Hotel Free time in Warsaw For suggestions on sightseeing or where to eat, please see the Sightseing session of the website (a print is in your folder) http://www.mediasalles.it/training/training.htm or ask the course participants from Warsaw!
Friday 30 August In Warsaw - Kinoteka 7.30 8.00 am: Hotel Check-out luggage in the bus 8.00 am TRANSFER TO KINOTEKA BY PRIVATE BUS 8.30 am Arrival at Kinoteka welcome message UNIC's outlook on international cinema exhibition and the digital transition by Jan Runge, CEO of UNIC Q&A session
Friday 30 August In Warsaw - Kinoteka 9.10 am Warsaw 1935 3D screening 9.30 am Coffee break and visit of the Kinoteka 10.00 am TRANSFER ON FOOT TO MULTIKINO ZŁOTE TARASY
Friday 30 August In Warsaw Multikino Złote Tarasy 10.15 am Visit of Złote Tarasy Projection of contents in High Frame Rate Courtesy of Arri and Barco 10.30 am Multikino Trasition to full digital practical experience and new opportunities by Robert Brzeziński (Multikino) New technologies driving cinema development by Edyta Pawłowicz-Ziurkowska (Multikino)
Friday 30 August In Warsaw Multikino Złote Tarasy TWIN SESSION 11.00 am The future of cinema: new business opportunities and new technologies by Goran Stojmenovik, Product Manager of Barco the point of view of a supplier Completing the digital conversion. And then what? by Jan Petersen, CTO of Nordisk Film Cinemas the point of view of the end user Q&A session + buffet lunch FREE TIME IN WARSAW
Friday 30 August In Warsaw Iluzjon 3.00 pm Participants meet at Kinoteka (where the bus driver will say) TRANSFER TO CINEMA ILUZJON BY PRIVATE BUS Presentation of the cinema and visit The digital cinema composition, Security Key Management and accessibility by Michael Karagosian (MKPE) Q&A session Coffee break
Friday 30 August 4.30 pm TRANSFER TO CRACOW BY PRIVATE BUS For suggestions on sightseeing or where to eat, please see the Sightseing session of the website (a print is in your folder) http://www.mediasalles.it/training/training.htm or ask the course participants from Cracow and its region!
Saturday 31 August Hilton Garden Inn Terral Conference Room 9.00 am Marketing and communication by Petr Vitek (Kino Aero Prague, CZ) 9.20 am Coffee break 9.35 am Diversity of the contents of cinema programmes in relation to digitization by Peter Bosma Q&A session
Saturday 31 August Hilton Garden Inn Terral Conference Room 10.00 am Group work based on Peter Bosma's questions and preparation of the manifesto of the European cinemas of the future 12.00 am TRANSFER TO WADOWICE BY PRIVATE BUS Free time in Wadowice (including lunch on your own)
Saturday 31 August In Wadowice 2.15 pm Visit of the Cinema Centrum in Wadowice member of the Malopolska D-Cinemas Network The presentation of the Malopolska D-Cinemas Network by Marta Materska-Samek and Piotr Wyrobiec, Director of Cinema Centrum - Wadowice Cultural Centre
Saturday 31 August In Wadowice 3.00 pm Coffee break 3.20 pm Digital Cinema Support Issues A few KPIs for Discussion by Mark Waldman, Director of European Customer Support of dcinex Q&A session 4.00 pm The cinemas of the future: new prospects for the cinema experience by Ron Sterk, Director of NVB and Cinema Digitaal
Saturday 31 August 5.00 pm TRANSFER TO CRACOW BY PRIVATE BUS Please fill in the evaluation questionnaires (two) and give them to Sara before leaving the bus 6.30 pm Filmtour in Cracow partly by bus and partly on foot (Old Town, Kazimierz etc.) 8.30 pm Closing dinner in Cracow at AUGUSTA - Bulwar Kurlandzki (Kazimierz) Participants will go back to HGI on their own (taxi or icar would cost maximum 15 PLN)
Sunday 1 September Hilton Garden Inn Terral Conference Room 8.45 9.10: Hotel check-out. All luggage must be brought to the luggage room 9.15 am Group work: manifesto of the cinemas of the future Brainstorming on new training activities to meet the needs of the European cinema exhibitors in the future years 12.00 pm END OF THE COURSE
For more information please look at the MEDIA Salles website: http://www.mediasalles.it/training/training.htm and in particular the section called Advance News