8 July 2016,
8. 7. 2016.
Dear colleagues,
From 14 to 16 September, Rijeka is hosting the Film Market and the Elective Session of the Croatian Independent Cinemas Network Assembly, jointly organised by Cinema Network, Croatian Audiovisual Centre and Art Cinema.
The second edition of Cinema Network’s Film Market is once again introducing independent cinemas and supporting their development through a series of workshops, panels, training sessions, good practice examples and film screenings. The Market will give us a chance to get to know each other better, to discuss burning issues, create new partnerships and form common visions.
In many local communities, independent cinemas are also among the rare surviving cultural venues and are, as such, priceless and precious to the public and social life of their environments. For this reason, this year’s Market will prevalently focus on how to strengthen the role of cinemas in local communities. How to use the resources we have the best possible way and turn cinemas into living social and cultural hubs? How to expand the audience circuit and involve the community in our activities?
The workshops we are preparing will be based on specific examples and prospective common activities – the aim is to demonstrate certain tactics and strategies that can assist us. The workshops will focus on educational programmes for elementary schools and collaborations with local communities. More specifically, community collaborations with local cultural organisations, institutions, associations, minority groups are one of the possible strategies to overcome the limited resources we have at our disposal because one organisation’s strength become everyone’s strength. The workshop will attempt to inspire ideas about how we can work together and how our joint activities can help improve partner organisations, as well as grow audience and strengthen our visibility.
Besides, we will focus on educational programmes for elementary schoolchildren. Such activities indeed help grow our new audience and, even more importantly, represent a powerful contribution to the evolution of the community and active citizens.
The first ever Elective Session of the Network Assembly is scheduled to take place at the Film Market: we will be electing a president and a board of directors, examining what we have done and discussing about what lies ahead in the upcoming year.
And finally, we will be joined by distributers who will present the new releases coming up in 2016/2017, and we are looking forward to many film premieres.
Therefore, although we operate in different circumstances, we have different business models and programme visions, getting acquainted with our colleagues’ work can only inspire us and collaboration can only make us stronger.
Join us in Rijeka!
