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The Trouble with European Cinema
For the 2007 Sundance Film Festival catalogue contained a special feature written by Henning Camre and Jonathan Davis on ‘The Trouble with European Cinema’. At the Copenhagen ThinkTank in June 2006, Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore spoke of the need for renewal if film is to continue to reach its audience in the face of the economic and technological upheavals currently taking place in the market place. He suggested that European film “centres itself in a film culture that is not relevant anymore” and proposed revitalization as a cure. ‘The Trouble with European Cinema’ addresses Gilmore’s speech and asks whether in Europe we are hiding from the failure of our cinema to engage with audiences and to make a difference in people’s lives.
Digital Armageddon By Jonathan Davis
DFI magazine FILM #57 (May 2007)
Super-high speed internet, digital multimedia broadcasting on mobile phones, internet protocol TV, file-sharing: Why the new technologies will not be the salvation of the European film industry.
ThinkTank... On European Film and Film Policy By Henning Camre and Jonathan Davis
DFI magazine FILM #55 (February 2007)
Witnessing the major manifestations of cinematic art in Berlin, Cannes, Venice etc., it is easy to banish from your mind the idea that there is anything wrong with the world of film, or anything we could do better. But the ThinkTank on European Film and Film Policy has come about precisely because we have a suspicion that there are several serious problems with film in Europe, and perhaps a few things we could do to remedy those problems.
DFI magazineFILM #50 (May 2006)
In a special extended version for the Film Ireland website, Séamus McSwiney reviews the notion of state intervention in film production ahead of the Copenhagen ThinkTank on European Film and Film Policy. (May 2006)
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