2013 PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
 
As in 2012, the 35th Cinemed is organising professional meetings focused on several themes:
 
- The 23rd Development Aid Grant
Development aid for full length fiction features. The organisers of Cinemed have used this grant since 1991 for the promotion and development of projects by Mediterranean directors with or without a producer, thus supporting the cinematographic profession around the Mediterranean. Confirmed directors, having already made at least one fiction short, and who are from a Mediterranean country or from Portugal, the Black Sea and Armenia, and/or whose project is in a Mediterranean setting or expresses cultural features of the Mediterranean area may submit their project/s. For 2013 project selection, see Inscriptions. See Development Aid Grant for information as well.
 
- Seminars covering the specific features of production and distribution in the Mediterranean and North-South and South-North contributions and relations. A morning will be devoted to the presentation of funding bodies (public and private) and/or the editorial lines of distributors. Another will be spent on discussing the subject of distribution around the Mediterranean, with the participation of the members of the MEDIS Association which is to hold its General Assembly at the Corum during the Festival. These meetings and presentations are aimed at professionals in both the fiction and documentary sectors. They will completed by a Zoom on… (organised by Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma).
 
More information soon.
 


A reminder of the 2012 professional meetings
Held from 29 October to 2 November during the 34th Cinemed in 2012, they included:
 
- ZOOM ON IFCIC Organised by Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma
More information about the Institut pour le financement du cinéma et des industries culturelles. IFCIC is a registered lending establishment assigned by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of the Economy and Finance with the task of contributing to the development in France of the culture industry by making it easier for enterprises in the sector to obtain bank funding.
 
- AID FOR WORLD CINEMAS Organised by Cinemed
Presentation and analysis six months after its launching of this new facility devoted to international coproduction. It was set up jointly by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and is managed by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) and the Institut français.
 
- PRODUCING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION Seminar and meetings organised by Cinemed in partnership with EURODOC
. EUROMED Audiovisual and DOCmed In partnership with DOCmed and EURODOC
Presentation of the Euromed Audiovisual programme, the DOCmed training programme, and the 12 documentary projects of the DOCmed participants 2012.
. Coproduction breakfasts In partnership with Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma
Coproduction breakfasts reserved to the DOCmed participants and to the producers from the Languedoc-Roussillon Region.
. Presentation of television editorial lines and Mediterranean funds
Moderators: Serge Lalou (producer, Les Films d'ici) and Jacques Bidou (producer, JBA Production)
Experts invited: Reda Benjelloun (2M), Mohammed Belhadj (Al Jazeera Documentary), Michel Plazanet (CNC), Nathalie Streiff (Institut français), Luca Macciocca (RAI cinema), Isabella Pisani (LCP), Wilbur Leguebe (RTBF), Jean-Michel Mariou (France 3 Sud).
. Coproduction roundtables Moderators: Serge Lalou and Jacques Bidou
Presentation of the 12 selected projects to the commissioning editors invited.
Experts invited: Jacques Bidou (JBA Production), Serge Lalou (Les Films d'ici), Anne-Marie Luccioni (Eurodoc), Jad Abi-Khalil (Beirut DC), Reda Benjelloun (2M), Mohammed Belhaj (Al Jazeera Documentary), Hala Alabdalla (Ramad Films), Jean-Emmanuel Casalta (France 3 Corse), André de Margerie (Arte), Wilbur Leguebe (RTBF), Isabella Pisani (LCP), Alex Szalat (Arte), Luca Macciocca (RAI cinema), Georges Schoucair (Abbout Production), Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions), Jean-Michel Mariou (France 3 Sud), Isabelle Truc (Iota Productions), Fabrice Puchault (France Télévisions).
. Conference: Producing in the Mediterranean region
Moderators: Serge Lalou (producer, Les Films d'ici) and Jean-Marc Urréa (President of Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma).
Experts invited at the forum: Jean-Emmanuel Casalta (France 3 Corse), André de Margerie (Head of Arte international relations), Alex Szalat (Arte), Fabrice Puchault (France Télévisions), Georges Schoucair (Abbout Production), Reda Benjelloum (2M), Jacques Bidou, Jad Abi-Khalil (Beirut DC, Liban), Oussama Mohammad (Syrian filmmaker), Mohammed Belhadj (Al Jazeera Documentary).
How to federate, make known and better use the facilities available to stakeholders in production, creation and distribution. How to set up bridges between the shores of the Mediterranean to allow these works to exist and circulate.
. Coproduction: screenings and case studies
After the film screening (one documentary, one fiction feature), case study of the production and financing process with the filmmaker and the producer.
 
- The 22nd DEVELOPMENT AID GRANT Organised by Cinemed
18 fiction features projects were examined by a jury.
 
- CONFERENCE: CINEMA CRITICISM Organised by Cinemed
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the launching of Positif, Cinemed organised reflection on critical writing.
 

The Festival’s professionals lounge
 
With the creation of the Professionals Lounge at the Corum-Palais des Congrès, the Montpellier Festival hosted 500 cinema professionals and official guests in 2012. The same venue will be available this year.
 
Professionals lounge
An area of Le Corum-Palais des Congrès (Level 1) is reserved for professionals to facilitate meetings, discussions and the making of appointments. Festival personnel is made available for this.
 
Screening facility
A private screening facility in the same area is available to professionals, on reservation, every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. All films selected for the Festival can be consulted there. A documentalist is present to provide any information required.
 
Activities and meetings
A cocktail-meeting is held every evening at 7 p.m. Debates and presentations are also organised every day at Espace Joffre 1.
 
List of professionals
Available online in this section from 14 October 2013, the list will contain all the official guests and professionals expected to attend the Festival, with the dates of their stays.
 
Contact info@cinemed.tm.fr for all information concerning pass forms, hosting and accommodation facilities provided by the Festival for professionals.
 

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HOTELS
 
Plan your stay using resamontpellier.com, the online reservation centre run by Montpellier Office de Tourisme.

 
How to get to the 35th Cinemed BY TRAIN: 'Take a TER!'*
* TER: regional express train
 
Make the most of the 35th Cinemed by being 'eco-mobile' and using the Languedoc-Roussillon TER trains!
One of the 132 stations and halts is certainly near you. The Languedoc-Roussillon Region and the SNCF also have inexpensive, simple and convenient price formulas. For example, a VIA LIBERTÉ card costing only €25 per year gives a 50% reduction on all the TERs in Languedoc-Roussillon every weekend, on public holidays and during Zone A school holidays for the cardholder and 3 persons of his or her choice! All relevant travel information can be found in all the stations in the region, on the website www.ter-sncf.com/languedoc or by telephoning the TER Contact on 0 800 88 60 91 (free call from a fixed phone from 7 am to 8 pm from Monday to Friday and from 9 am to 2 pm on Saturday).
 
Map of the Languedoc-Roussillon network (Carte du réseau TER): click here.

 






2012 conferences