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If the organisers of theAmerican Film Market AFM and their many powerful supporters have their way,2003 will prove to be Mifed s swansong, great pasta and wonderful shoppingnotwithstanding. By scheduling a rival AFMnext November, AFMA is forcing film buyers into a cruel choice. Do they allsuccumb to the gravitational pull of the major US sales compan
stanley cup ies in SantaMonica and kill off Mifed Or do some keep faith with a devoted core ofEuropean suppliers who would like to stay put in Milan and thus create abifurcated marketplace in which business is conducted simultaneously on twocontinents The performance of this year s Fiera event will certainly swingthat decision, one way or the other. With or without Mifed, theinternational buying calendar will look very different from 2004. February willsee the emergence of an enlarged European Film Market EFM at the Berlin filmfestival. The growing popularity, especially among Asian companies, of thePusan film festival has made the Korean event something of an autumn fixture.And from 2005, the pro
stanley cup mise of just one permanent annual AFM in October orNovember means that the London Screenings, which ran before Mifed for acouple of years, are effectively dead as a convenient European stopover.Already the combination of these forces is impacting on industry timetables. We haven t decided anythingyet for certain, but from 2004 we will probably concentrate on EFM, Cannes andAFM as our three most important marke
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With illegal copying and downloading of feature films becoming ever more prevalent ScreenDaily, 27 November 2003 , the German film and video industries have joined forces to launch a campaign entitled Raubkopierer
stanley us sind Verbrecher - eine Initiative zum Schutz des Originals Pirates are criminals - an initiative to protect the original . We can t be as lax and pedagogical as the music industry , said the campaign s organiser Dr. Elke Esser of Zukunft Kino Marketing ZKM which had calculated that the film and video industries lost Euros 800m worth of business last year through illegal copies of films. If we don t do something now. we will soon be faced with insoluble problems. Therefore, a provocative, aggressive campaign is being launched this week to establish a dialogue with the people who download or buy bootlegge
stanley cup d films at flea markets , Esser explained. In order to make the illegal nature of the pirated copies clear, the campaign will create a
stanley cup n awareness of the legal consequences for criminally organised pirates. The two-year campaign will begin with drastic, but humorous commercials and posters in cinemas and video stores and be followed by other publicity measures to address the end consumers lack of awareness of wrongdoing. People see copying films as something like ticket dodging or parking in a no-parking zone , Esser added.As Good Bye, Lenin! producer Stefan Arndt of X-Filme creative pool told Screendaily, the unchecked spread of illegal copying could
