Saturday 18th of May, 2013 <br />11:00 – 13:00 <br />Salon des Ambassadeurs, 4th floor, Palais des Festivals <br />Moderator: Wolfgang Closs <br />Welcome: Wolfgang Closs, Executive Director, European Audiovisual Observatory <br />Film and VoD Market trends in Europe <br />André Lange, Head of the Department for Information on Markets and Financing, <br />European Audiovisual Observatory (7 minutes) <br />The promotion of European works through on-demand audiovisual media services: <br />current state of affairs and sample challenges <br />Susanne Nikoltchev, Head of the Department for Legal Information, <br />European Audiovisual Observatory (7 minutes) <br />The role of the Internet in the marketing of films <br />Benoît Danard, Head of Research, statistics and prospective at the French CNC <br />(Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée) <br />How can the regulators boost the promotion of European films on the new platforms? <br />Jean-François Furnémont, Director of the Belgian Regulatory Authority, CSA <br />(Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel) <br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />CASE STUDIES: how to deal with the fragmented VoD market? <br />moderated by Nils Klevjer Aas, Senior Advisor, research and Policy at the <br />Norwegian Film Institute <br />♦ Aviva Silver, Head of the Unit "Creative Europe - MEDIA" in the Directorate General <br />“Education and Culture” of the European Commission <br />♦ Dragoslav Zahariev, Secretary General EuroVoD /UniversCiné <br />♦ Scilla Andreen, Co-Founder and CEO, IndieFlix Inc <br />♦ Pierre-Alexandre Labelle, Co-Founder, Under the Milky Way <br />Followed by a question and answer session with th
