Art Cinema = Action + Management

ART CINEMA = ACTION + MANAGEMENT

Venice, San Servolo Island

ITALY

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26/08 > 01/09 2013

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The 10th edition of the European Summer University for profesionnals of arthouse cinemas will take place on the campus-island of San Servolo, Venice, during the Mostra del Cinema (Venice International Film Festival). This seminar is organized within the framework of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. _________________________________________________________________________________________

State-of-the-Art and Objectives

Arthouses extended all over Europe in the 1950′s, 1960′s and 1970′s ; they now account for 4 to 5.000 among the 25.000 cinema screens on the continent. Their position is very different depending on the european regions: organized networks in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland… and mostly isolated cinemas elsewhere. Still, there is in all countries a double need for

preparing the young professionals who are going to be the next generation of art cinemas directors and programmers
preparing the executive of the exhibition field to face the new challenges of our profession

The ambition of the “Art Cinema = Action + Management” training is

to hand-on on to the new generation the specific know-how (methods, tools, ideas, contacts) for programming, animating and managing an art cinema.
to give to the executive, a place for rethinking their job, sharing their experiences and finding windows on our profession.

Content

Juniors Session 26.08.2013 > 01.09.2013

Executives Session 26.08.2013 > 30.08.2013

The training consists in a residential seminar, including theoretical lectures on the market background (economics, law, policies, technology), case studies, workshops and screenings. The lectures are translated in English, French, German and Italian, the case studies are held in language groups (same languages) and the workshops in English. All trainees will receive an accreditation to the70th edition of the Mostra del Cinema (Venice Film Festival).

DEADLINES :

Applications: 1 April > 2 June 2013
Selection: Mid-June 2013
Training convention and payment: 07/07/2013
Beginning of the training: 26/08/2013

Course Programme 2013

The provisional training program is available here.

Languages

The lectures are translated in 4 languages (English, French, German, Italian), apert the Excutives sessions and the Junior workshop, which will be held in English.

Selection criteria

Both editions are open to:

>> Citizens or Residents in the countries associated to the MEDIA Programme : European Union, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland. Some places are available for people from other regions, but at a higher cost. Candidates should be fluent in one of the tuition languages (English, French, German or Italian). The workshops and the communication with professionals of many different countries require a fair knowledge of conversational English. The application will be considered definitive once a training convention has been signed and after the payment of the participation fees.

Juniors’s edition

The CICAE has a limited number of travel grants and scholarships. The CICAE Committee selection will give the names of eligible candidats for one of these two aids before the end of June 2013.

Eligible candidats must have one year experience in :

an arthouse cinema
in a mainstream cinema willing to develop art cinema
in a film festival with the project to open a art cinema theater

Are also eligible :

distributors willing to better understand independent exhibition in Europe.
institutional workers concerned by the sector.

Executives edition

The CICAE has a limited number of travel grants and scholarships. The CICAE Committee selection will give the names of eligible candidats for one of these two aids before the end of June 2013.

Eligible candidates are :

exhibitors with a minimal 5 year working experience
programmers or managers with several years of working experience in an arthouse cinema
institutionals concerned by the sector

Fees

Fees include:

Pedagogical material, final synthesis.
Accommodation in single bedrooms (personal shower, closet, phone & TV) on the campus of the Island of San Servolo. (NB : possibility to be in a shared room : same gender, 2 beds with a rebate of 25€ per night)
Half boarding, bottles of water.
Opening and closing dinners, cocktails
Accreditation to the Venice International Film Festival Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica

Transportations are not included. However,

many low cost airlines reach Venice or Trévise at 30 km (Easyjet, Wizzair, Ryan Air…).
some scholars may be eligible to a transportation grant (half ticket price).

For non MEDIA countries, please contact directly the CICAE.

National and Regional Scholarships

Many European countries offer support to professionals for attending European training programmes. This comes from a variety of sources, e.g. national and regional funds, training organisations, ministries, and varies between countries. The CICAE encourages participants to apply for financial support with their national/regional funding bodies. You are required to inform the CICAE when applying.

MEDIA countries: The MEDIA Desks located in each country are a very good source of information and advice on finding grants from national funds or institutions (as Office Fédéral de la Culture in Switzerland, Skillset in UK, Dutch Film Fund in Netherlands, Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne in Poland…)

All the MEDIA Desk’s contacts are here :http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/contacts_en.htm

NON-MEDIA Countries: Candidates can ask to the French Embassy of their country to support their participation. Thanks to inform the Cicae if you do such a grant application.

CICAE Scholarships

According to the MEDIA Program guidelines, the CICAE reserves a part of its overall budget to contribute towards some participants costs. The grants are given in the first place to professionnals who can’t benefit from other sources of financing : applicants from new MEDIA countries and from other countries with no support mechanisms (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus)

The CICAE is a non-profit organisation and depends from institutional funding for organising this training. For this reason, we kindly ask professionnals who benefit from a national or a regional funding not to apply for a CICAE scholarship. In case you apply for a scholarship, you are required to inform the CICAE of the status of your application.