Leading industry companies and organisations
including Sony Digital Cinema 4K (headline
sponsor), Technicolor, Arqiva, Arts Alliance Media, dCinex, More2Screen, MyMovies, Rentrak, Sound Associates and Vista will be sponsoring and participating in the first UK Digital
Cinema Conference being hosted by Digital Cinema Solutions
on Thursday 7 February at the Vue Westfield in West London.
The
theme for the one-day conference will be digital innovation and alternative
content geared to be of interest specifically to film distributors, exhibitors
and related services and suppliers.
Derek Cownty,
Digital Cinema Solutions Director says: “We have had an outstanding response
from sponsors and speakers signing up to this conference, underlining both the
relevance and potential of digital to both the cinema business and to audiences
as consumers. The discussion sessions
within the conference will be looking in some detail at business facts and
figures as well as programming case studies that exemplify shifts in consumer take-up.”
Supported
by the key industry organisations, the Cinema
Exhibitors’ Association, the Film
Distributors’ Association and the Digital
Funding Partnership, the line-up of speakers and presenters who will be
sharing their experience and insight on the developing market for film at the
cinema include:
- Peter
Buckingham, Director, SampoMedia
- John
Bullen, VPF & Premium Content Executive, Sony
Digital Cinema
- Till
Cussmann, Vice-President Exhibitor Services, dCinex
- George
Eyles, Head of Worldwide Business Development &
Strategic Planning, Digital Cinema ,Technicolor
- David Hancock, Director, Head of Film
and Cinema, I.H.S. Screen Digest
- Lucy Jones, Director of Client
Services, Rentrak
- Melissa Keeping, Chairman , The Event
Cinema Association
- Saul Mahoney, Executive Director,
Digital Cinema Operations, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures EMEA
- David Monk, European Digital Cinema Forum
- Andrew Myers, Chief
Executive Officer, Everyman Cinema Group
- Nic
Morris BSC, Director of Cinematography (Minotaur, Out of Season
and TV’s Being Human, Robin Hood)
- Oliver
Pasch, Sales Director Europe, Sony Europe
- Steve Perrin, Chief Executive
Officer, Digital Funding Partnership
- Rich Philips, Chief Technology
Officer, Arts Alliance Media
- Tim Plyming, Head of Digital, Publishing & Broadcast , The
British Museum
- Alastair
Roberts, Managing
Director, Royal Opera House Enterprises
- Jan Runge, Chief Executive, International Union of Cinemas (UNIC)
- Jim Slater, Editor, Cinema
Technology
- Graham Spurling, Director of
Movies@
- Marco
Tinnirello, Head of Sales, Digital Cinema, Broadcast & Media, Arqiva
- Don
Ward, Owner and Founder of The Comedy Store venues
- Richard
Welsh, Head of Operations (Digital Cinema), Technicolor
The past, present and future
of digital innovation will provide
the foundation for the conference which is headline sponsored by Sony Digital Cinema 4K. Oliver
Pasch, Sales Director for Sony Europe, says: “We are excited to support the very first Digital
Cinema Solutions Conference. Events like these are always a great opportunity
for industry to come together and share thoughts on current trends and
predictions for the future. The
interactive sessions will be a chance to look at the innovative trends we’re
seeing emerge at the moment – such as 4K – and to ensure the success of digital
cinema over the coming months and years.”
Technicolor, the worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment
sector, a sponsor of the event, and leading a discussion on the
cost efficiencies of digital technology for distributors and exhibitors, chaired
by George Eyles, Head of Worldwide Business Development & Strategic Planning
for Digital Cinema at Technicolor.
Steve Perrin, CEO
of the Digital Funding Partnership will lead a discussion on developments in
technology including laser, 3D, high frame rates and sound with Richard Welsh, Head of Operations for Technicolor
Digital Cinema UK, Rich Philips from
Arts Alliance Media, David Monk from
the European
Digital Cinema Forum and Jim Slater
from Cinema Technology.
Steve
Perrin says, “This
conference could not come at a better time for the UK cinema sector. The UK led the advance internationally on
digital with the result that to all intents and purposes, the UK commercial
cinema is now fully digital - looking at where we are today and developments in
the pipeline is relevant not only to distributors and exhibitors, but to any
business involved in bringing film entertainment to audiences.”
Till
Cussman
from dCinex will be giving a presentation on the challenges and opportunities
for commercial independent exhibitors; Jan
Runge from UNIC will be giving an update on the forthcoming Cine Europe
2013 forum in Barcelona, and Melissa
Keeping from the Event Cinema Association will looking at some of the most
recent case studies of alternative content for cinemas with Marco Tinnirello, Don Ward, Alastair
Roberts and Tim Plyming.
Pete
Buckingham
from SampoMedia will be looking at the audience response to the sound and
screen technology advances.
David
Hancock
from IHS Screen Digest, will launch the conference with an overview of how
digital and 3D are positioning cinemas for today and tomorrow’s audiences.
Media
partners for the conference are Screentrade,
Cinema Technology, IHS Screen Digest and Cue Entertainment.
Regular
programme, sponsor and speaker updates are available at:
http://www.digitalcinemasolutions.co.uk/conference
Ticket prices are as follows: £125 + VAT for CEA/DFP/FDA
and ECA members and £150 + VAT for non-members.
Tickets are on sale now and available through the website.
