Digital summer

Watching old favourites while relaxing in your fold-out chair on balmy summer nights... the open air cinema season is indeed in full swing. Cinemas are opting more and more often for digital technology for their open air screenings.

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Online alternatives to DVD screeners

From ordering copies of films with just the click of a mouse, to directly downloading relevant advertising material -  Europe’s Finest continually optimizes its online platform. Now, as the first ever distribution platform of its kind, Europe's Finest has launched a new service for its users: the possibility to preview films online from its catalogue.

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Europe's Finest at the Sarajevo Film Festival

As part of the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival, the "Regional Forum for the Future of the Film Industry in South-East Europe" will take place on 28th and 29th July at the CineLink Co-Production Market. Europe's Finest will follow up on its invitation to Sarajevo on two levels.

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Europe's Finest screens Icelandic comedy in the Czech Republic

Pavel Bednarik, director of the Czech Film Festival "Summer Film School" in Uherské Hradiste, has dedicated himself to the genre of Icelandic comedy this year with the festival's Iceland focus.

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A classic never dies: digital classics in the Ciné Lumière, London

Every month, Europe’s Finest chooses a ‘cinema of the month’ and presents a European cinema that is particularly committed to digital film.

The Ciné Lumière is part of the Institut Français in London and is situated beside the seminar rooms and the library in a wonderful Art Deco building in the South Kensington area. It was opened by Catherine Deneuve in 1998 and since then it has been screening French, European and international films in their original version with English subtitles.

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No Utopia: Film Art and Blockbusters in one and the same Cinema

Every month, with CINEMA OF THE MONTH, Europe‘s Finest presents a European cinema which makes a particular contribution to the world of digital film.

„I see digital cinema as an inevitable development. The positive aspects for me are the well-restored copies and the improved picture quality,“ says Nico Simon, director of the Utopolis cinema group in Luxemburg. more >>

Film distribution and realisation on the Net: Tilman Scheel at the Medienforum NRW

“How will the digital world change the traditional methods of film and TV distribution? As a producer, distributor or film maker, how can you make use of these new methods?” These questions were discussed on June 29th at the film congress of the 22nd NRW(Media Forum North Rhine-Westphalia)in Cologne. The speakers were Jan Sessenhausen (Moviac, Frankfurt), Teun Hilte (Content Republic, London), Efe Cakarel (MUBI, Paris) and Tilman Scheel (Europe’s Finest, Cologne). The talk was led by Scott Roxborough of the Hollywood Reporter. For more information on the programme: http://medienforum.nrw.de/nc/de/kongress/programm.html

Not so old after all: Jean Cocteaus ORPHEUS turns 60

In 1950, Jean Cocteaus masterpiece ORPHEUS celebrated its world premiere in Cannes. 60 years have passed since then and yet the film retains its poetic magic. On July 9th the 60th anniversary of Orpheus will be commemorated on the screen of Munich’s Film Museum - as a digital copy from the Europe’s Finest catalogue.

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Retrospective: From Cologne to Cannes

“We are extremely pleased with the feedback we received in Cannes”, says Tilman Scheel, managing director of Europe’s Finest. “Many new doors were opened here on the Côte d’Azur for upcoming projects and a growing number of cinema operators and festivals wish to show our films.”

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Five more festival successes from the catalogue of THE MATCH FACTORY

With immediate effect digital cinemas all over Europe can order five more festival successes from the catalogue of worldwide distributor THE MATCH FACTORY.

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