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Screen Industries Adopt Five Declarations on AI, Piracy, Gender, Education, and Environment at Lumière Summit
Screen Industries Adopt Five Declarations on AI, Piracy, Gender, Education, and Environment at Lumière Summit
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Lumiere Declaration Sets 15 Principles for Global Film Governance, Calling Audience Attention ‘a Trust to Be Honored, Not a Resource to Be Captured...
Representatives of countries, international organizations, film, television and gaming industry leaders, creators, festivals and cultural institutions from across the world adopted the Lumière Declaration on the Future of Cinema and the Moving Image on Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Jointly presented by France and the Republic of Korea and convened under the co-chairship […]
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Lumière Declaration Establishes 15 Principles for Global Film Governance, Emphasizing Economic Growth and Creative Freedom
Lumière Declaration Establishes 15 Principles for Global Film Governance, Emphasizing Economic Growth and Creative Freedom
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung Calls for Human-Centric AI and Backs Independent Cinema at Lumiere Summit
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung used his opening address at the Lumière Summit on Monday to announce a €500 million ($581 million) film industry investment commitment by the Republic of Korea – matching an equal pledge from France – and to make the case for AI that serves human creativity rather than supplanting it. […]
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Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s ‘All of a Sudden’, Abinash Bikram Shah’s ‘Elephants in the Fog’ Lead Asia Pacific Screen Awards Nominations
Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “All of a Sudden” and Abinash Bikram Shah’s “Elephants in the Fog” led nominations for the 19th Asia Pacific Screen Awards with three nods apiece, as the Asia Pacific Screen Academy unveiled a 36-film slate from 32 countries and regions ahead of the Oct. 30 ceremony in Australia. “All of a Sudden” (France, […]
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France and Korea Launch $1.16 Billion Screen Industry Financing Partnership at Lumiere Summit
France and Korea have each pledged €500 million ($581 million) to a joint initiative designed to strengthen the global screen industries, with the first funding instruments deploying from 2027 through 2031. The Lumière Partnership, unveiled Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, is open to additional countries and will prioritize companies with the ambition and […]
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France Launches Global Initiatives to Support Independent Cinema and Establish Framework for Alliance of State Film Commissions: Lumiere Summit
Top filmmakers including Richard Linklater, Rebecca Zlotkowski, Jafar Panahi, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Tarik Saleh and Jia Zhang-ke have signed on to take part in the International Resilience Initiative for Independent Screens unveiled Monday during the Lumiere Summit in France. The French government has launched what has been dubbed IRIS as a bid […]
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French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for a ‘New Multilateralism’ Across Creative Industries: ‘We Built a Civilization of Images. We Should Not Re...
In 1895, the first public film screening happened. It was in the basement of the Grand Café, nearby the Paris Opera, with a program of 10 short movies, each no more than 50 seconds long. Cinema was born. The names of the two brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, became symbols of an art which needs […]
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Film Industry Leaders Demand Structural Fix for Gender Gap at Lumiere Summit
Women held 17% of key behind-camera roles when the Celluloid Ceiling study began tracking the figure in 1998. Last year, that number stood at 23%. Six points in 27 years. That statistic opened a panel at the Lumière Summit on Monday titled “Safer Sets, Different Stories: Why Gender Balance Matters,” where leaders from StudioCanal, Canal+, […]
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MPA Signs Two Lumiere Summit Declarations, Joins Roundtables With Presidents Macron and Lee
The Motion Picture Association signed two declarations at the Lumière Summit on Monday, adding its name alongside those of governments and private sector organizations worldwide to the Lumière Declaration on the Future of Cinema and the Moving Image and the Declaration on Strengthened International Cooperation in the Fight Against Film and Audiovisual Piracy. The summit […]
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Toho Europe, Indonesia Film Fund, Cinepolis Pact Among Deals Unveiled at Lumiere Summit
Monday’s Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence generated a cluster of industry announcements alongside its headline declarations, with deals spanning co-production financing, distribution, exhibition and education. Toho Europe, the regional arm of Tokyo-based entertainment group Toho Co., Ltd. – founded in 1932 and best known internationally for the “Godzilla” franchise – announced a new branch in France. […]
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Regal Cinemas, IFTA, CNC Launch Pilot to Test Whether Smarter Programming Can Reverse Falling Theater Admissions
Regal Cinemas and the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), together with the CNC, launched the Future of Distribution pilot on Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, – a new international initiative that will hand under-used cinema screens to a neutral programmer in a bid to reverse falling theater attendance. The pilot gets […]
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