Professional forum “Film Expo” opened in St. Petersburg

On 19 September, the 19th International Forum and Exhibition “Film Expo” and the exhibition Content Expo opened in the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre. These are annual events included in the triad of the largest-scale global conventions of film-providing and are important events for the film industry of Russia, CIS and Baltic countries.

The exhibition is the entire spectrum of equipment and services for movie theatres, digital signage for the movie theatre foyer and movie bars, different entertainment technologies, as well as audiovisual content for all platforms (movie theatres, TV, digital media and VR), with especial attention on implementing all types of rights to content, technologies of production, distribution, marketing and delivery of content.

The business programme of the “Film Expo” forum includes conferences and seminars dedicated to urgent problems of the business of movie theatres, improving their profitableness and innovations in the sphere of technologies and content, production of movies, television films and TV series, distribution and marketing of content. Vladimir Petelin, General Director of the network of movie theatres Première Hall spoke at the session “I Manage a Movie Business” about the successful IT-solutions in the movie theatres.

“We believe that modern business cannot function successfully without IT-technologies. The faster IT-tools are introduced into all its spheres, the greater the chances for its development. Therefore, we ourselves are actively studying the IT trends that may not only help to optimise the processes of the enterprise’s operation, but first of all improve efficiency. Thanks to these technologies and software the attendance at our movie theatres Première Hall will increase, and correspondingly, their profitability. At the forum, I will discuss in more detail how to use IT-technologies, how we are developing ours, and how they interact with the marketing processes of movie theatres,” related Petelin.

On 18 September 2017, on the threshold of the forum and exhibition “Film Expo” a press conference was held “On Creating the Association of Film Distributors” with the participation of the heads of the founding companies: Vadim Ivanov (Universal Pictures International), Alexei Ryazantsev (Karo Première), Sergey Selyanov (Our Film), Anton Sirenko (Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing), Vadim Smirnov (20th Century Fox, CIS) and Pavel Stepanov (Central Partnership). The participants related the goals of the new organisation, directions of its work and the pluses to be obtained by all the film industry participants.

Alexei Ryazantsev explained that while the Association participants still have little idea about all the pluses and minuses of such an association, nevertheless, the creation of the new organisation is an answer to the question of the time: “Yes, all of us continue to remain competitors on the market of providing movies! But this does not mean that we cannot find common solutions to improve the functioning of the film market that we essentially created all together!”

During the forum, there will be presentations and showing of films by the leading Russian film companies and major global film studios with the participation of producers, directors and movie stars. There will be closed showings only for film providers, and they will see such films as Salyut 7, The Last Warrior, Furious, The Legend of Kolovrat, Myths, Zhgi!, Dnyukha, New Spruces, Movement Upward, Three Heroes and the Egyptian Princess, Ice, What Men Say. Sequel, Frontier, The Edge of the Possible, Trainer, Sobibor and many others.

The partners in the forum “Film Expo” are the Media-Communication Union, Association of Film and Television Producers, the Russian Animated Film Association and the Internet Video Association.

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Professional forum “Film Expo” opened in St. Petersburg

On 19 September, the 19th International Forum and Exhibition “Film Expo” and the exhibition Content Expo opened in the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre. These are annual events included in the triad of the largest-scale global conventions of film-providing and are important events for the film industry of Russia, CIS and Baltic countries.

The exhibition is the entire spectrum of equipment and services for movie theatres, digital signage for the movie theatre foyer and movie bars, different entertainment technologies, as well as audiovisual content for all platforms (movie theatres, TV, digital media and VR), with especial attention on implementing all types of rights to content, technologies of production, distribution, marketing and delivery of content.

The business programme of the “Film Expo” forum includes conferences and seminars dedicated to urgent problems of the business of movie theatres, improving their profitableness and innovations in the sphere of technologies and content, production of movies, television films and TV series, distribution and marketing of content. Vladimir Petelin, General Director of the network of movie theatres Première Hall spoke at the session “I Manage a Movie Business” about the successful IT-solutions in the movie theatres.

“We believe that modern business cannot function successfully without IT-technologies. The faster IT-tools are introduced into all its spheres, the greater the chances for its development. Therefore, we ourselves are actively studying the IT trends that may not only help to optimise the processes of the enterprise’s operation, but first of all improve efficiency. Thanks to these technologies and software the attendance at our movie theatres Première Hall will increase, and correspondingly, their profitability. At the forum, I will discuss in more detail how to use IT-technologies, how we are developing ours, and how they interact with the marketing processes of movie theatres,” related Petelin.

On 18 September 2017, on the threshold of the forum and exhibition “Film Expo” a press conference was held “On Creating the Association of Film Distributors” with the participation of the heads of the founding companies: Vadim Ivanov (Universal Pictures International), Alexei Ryazantsev (Karo Première), Sergey Selyanov (Our Film), Anton Sirenko (Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing), Vadim Smirnov (20th Century Fox, CIS) and Pavel Stepanov (Central Partnership). The participants related the goals of the new organisation, directions of its work and the pluses to be obtained by all the film industry participants.

Alexei Ryazantsev explained that while the Association participants still have little idea about all the pluses and minuses of such an association, nevertheless, the creation of the new organisation is an answer to the question of the time: “Yes, all of us continue to remain competitors on the market of providing movies! But this does not mean that we cannot find common solutions to improve the functioning of the film market that we essentially created all together!”

During the forum, there will be presentations and showing of films by the leading Russian film companies and major global film studios with the participation of producers, directors and movie stars. There will be closed showings only for film providers, and they will see such films as Salyut 7, The Last Warrior, Furious, The Legend of Kolovrat, Myths, Zhgi!, Dnyukha, New Spruces, Movement Upward, Three Heroes and the Egyptian Princess, Ice, What Men Say. Sequel, Frontier, The Edge of the Possible, Trainer, Sobibor and many others.

The partners in the forum “Film Expo” are the Media-Communication Union, Association of Film and Television Producers, the Russian Animated Film Association and the Internet Video Association.

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