TALK: Accelerated Digitalization, What Recent and Future Impacts on the Swiss Audiovisual Sector?
TALK : Numérisation accélérée, quels impacts récents et futurs pour la branche audiovisuelle suisse?
MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, 18:30 – 20:00 – ONLINE – presented in French
This year, the Geneva Digital Market’s inaugural conference, organized in collaboration with AROPA (Association Romande de la Production Audiovisuelle), will address the digital broadcasting of audiovisual content. The aim of the event is to bring together Swiss audiovisual and film professionals along with political representatives to discuss this trend – which has accelerated sharply in the wake of the health crisis of the past several months – as well as its positive and negative impacts on the sector. The discussion will take place in three separate parts, which will successively address production, distribution, and festival-related aspects.
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Emilie Bujès, Visions du Réel - Festival international de cinéma - Nyon
Artistic Director of Visions du Réel, Emilie Bujès is also an advisor to the Directors’ Fortnight and an expert for the visions sud est fund. She was previously Deputy Artistic Director at the International Film Festival of La Roche-sur-Yon, a member of the Image/Movement Commission at CNAP (Paris) and she has taught at HEAD – Genève and HKB. Curator at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (2010-2014), she has also contributed to the programs of the CAC Vilnius, LUFF, Transmediale and the Forum Expanded (Berlinale). She has received a Swiss Art Award for her work as curator.
Laurent Dutoit, Agora Films
Laurent Dutoit is director of Agora Films, a Swiss film distribution company that he joined when it was founded in 1999. Agora Films distributes about fifteen films per year, most of which are independent Swiss or European films. Laurent Dutoit also operates two cinemas in Geneva (Les Scala and Le City) and is in charge of the North-South programming.
Max Karli, Rita Productions
Max Karli created Rita Productions in 2003 with Pauline Gygax. Among other works, he has produced or co-produced Xavier Beauvois’ two latest films, La Rançon de la Gloire and Les Gardiennes, Les Grandes Ondes by Lionel Baier and Le Vent Tourne by Bettina Oberli. He produced the film My Life as a Zucchini by Claude Barras, which was selected in countless festivals and nominated for Oscars and Cesar awards. He also produced the Helvetica series by Romain Graf with RTS and is currently shooting the series Sacha by Léa Fazer with RTS and ARTE. He is currently preparing the next feature films by Lionel Baier and Ursula Meier under the new company Bandita Films. He has just completed three years as co-president of AROPA (Audiovisual production association for Western Switzerland) and is a member of the Swiss Film Academy, the European Film Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.
Stéphane Morey, Association Romande de la Production Audiovisuelle
Stéphane Morey is the General Secretary of AROPA (Audiovisual production association for Western Switzerland). He is also the administrative manager of the magazine CULTURE ENJEU specialized in cultural policy in Switzerland, the secretary general of the Bureau Culturel Vaud, and the co-founder and artistic and administrative director of the multidisciplinary festival La Fête du Slip in Lausanne.