The 52nd Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival,
with the support of Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, will be devoting
a specific day to the vital role that regional institutions
and public entities play internationally in the preparation,
development and completion of film projects.
The Festival has chosen three innovative experiences, which
will be presented on September 23, to stress the dynamic nature
of European Regions in areas that are quite different in principle:
Cine-Regio. An example of the European coordination
of investment Funds consisting of Wallimage, Fonds Régional
Wallon de l’Audiovisuel (Belgium), MFG Filmförderung
(Baden-Württemberg, Germany), Rotterdams Fonds voor de
Film en Audiovisuele Media (Holland), FilmFondsWien (Vienna,
Austria), Provincia di Lecce (Italy).
Atelier de Production Centre Val de Loire (APCVL).
From a French region, to provide global support for an independent
film project in its various phases: writing, shooting, postproduction
and dissemination.
La Ciudad de la Luz de Alicante. Ultramodern
studios with public funding, it also supports independent cinema.
The agenda for the day’s events will be rounded off by
working sessions, professional meetings, and information on
the work carried out by Film Commissions and reflection committees
to familiarise professionals from the industry and press from
all over the world at the Festival with the dynamism of the
European regions.
•Cinema
and Regions in Europe Day (provisional programme)
EUROPEAN PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARD
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Within the framework
of this initiative, the Festival has decided to establish
an annual Award to be presented to a European Personality
who has stood out for giving a decisive boost to the richness
and diversity of European cinema. |
The first European Personality of the Year Award will be presented
on September 24 to the European commissioner Viviane Reding,
who is responsible for education, training, youth affairs, audiovisual
matters, culture, sport and civil society, in recognition of
the work she has carried out, and as a stimulus in the challenge
represented by her new European career.
Viviane Reding was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxemburg, in 1951.
She graduated in Social Sciences at University of the Sorbonne
in, and began her career as a journalist on the Luxemburger
Wort. Since 1979 she has combined this job with her political
career, first as a member of the Parliament of Luxemburg and
from 1989 onwards as a member of the European Parliament, where
she was president of the Luxemburg section of the European People’s
Party.
In 1999 she was appointed European Commissioner for Education
and Culture. In this post she has encouraged new programmes
to support Culture (Culture 2000) and new audiovisual policy
measures with a 30% increase in the Media Plus support programme
for the development, distribution and promotion of audiovisual
work in Europe. Another measure that she has promoted has been
the setting up, in collaboration with the BEI (European Investment
Bank), of the “i2i Audiovisual” initiative to make
it easier for Small and medium-sized companies to obtain venture
capital funding, as well as a process to review the “Television
without frontiers” Directive that among other things regulates
the law that makes it compulsory to invest 5% of TV income in
European audiovisual production. In October 2001 she received
the European Merit Foundation Gold Medal. Viviane Reding is
married and has three children.
We thank:
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