Cinema venues in Belgrade and Oldenburg and a Tartu-based entrepreneur have been honoured by exhibition community Europa Cinemas at its 2023 awards.
The most effective programming award went to the Dvorana Kulturnog Centra Beograda in Belgrade, Serbia. Based in 1963, the cinema is positioned inside a cultural centre and in addition hosts and co-organsises movie festivals resembling The Auteur Pageant and Beldocs in addition to thematic screenings resembling Goethe Fest and Days Of Modern Danish Cinema.
The cinema has featured greater than 80% of European programming during the last yr.
The most effective younger viewers actions award went to Casablanca cinema in Oldenburg, Germany. Managed by Tobias Rossmann, the cinema hosts the Oldenburg Kids’s Movie Pageant each November. It additionally hosts actions such because the Faculty Cinema Collection and Cinéfête, a French faculty movie competition designed for various studying stage and age teams, Schulkino Wochen, Youth Movie Days and Semana De Cine Español.
The entrepreneur of the yr award was offered to Andres Kauts, exhibitor at Elektriteater in Tartu, Estonia and a number one determine within the Estonian exhibition panorama. In 2021, Kauts initiated a challenge involving 4 Estonian cinemas geared toward creating a brand new software program tailor-made for small-size cinemas. With monetary help from Europa Cinemas, the initiative turned operational by the top of 2022.
The awards, which have run since 2002, are given to recognise ”excellent actions and sustained efforts” by community exhibitors to encourage the circulation of European movies, the variety of programming and growth of audiences, focusing on specifically the younger public.
Europa Cinemas community contains 3,060 screens in 38 nations and is supported by Artistic Europe/Media, the CNC, Eurimages and the Institut Français.
