The first European Cinema Summit in pictures

View from the Kinepolis venue, located in front of the Atomium and the Brupark


Meeting of the presidents of the federations part of UNIC (International Union of Cinemas) on the 15th of June, at the Brussels' Kinepolis


Main conference on the state of cinema business in Europe


Introduction speech by John Fithian, President of NATO


John Fithian






Lunch sponsored by Wallimage, the Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique and Flanders Image




3D demo by Doremi/Xpand


Main conference on piracy


Breakfast sponsored by Master Image USA


Lunch sponsored by Barco and Dolby, the official sponsors of the 2009 ECS


Main conference on the digital shift and its consequences




Gala Night at the Hotel Theater Plaza

About ECS' trade exhibitors and sponsors

For its first edition, the European Cinema Summit is proud to annouce the following trade partners :

Barco (Sponsor)
Cineact
Compeso
Cosign
Digital Darwin
Dolby (Sponsor)
Doremi
Dvidea
Harmonyl
Jimmy Products
Kleslo
Master Image (Sponsor)
Media Desk
Naço
Panasonic
PCO
Qube
Strobbe Ticket
Tickets & Labeling Solutions
Ushio Europe
Xpand

Program update

Check out regularly our program for updates on topics & speakers

They will be there!

Institutions representatives : Constantin Daskalakis (Head of Unit, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency - MEDIA Program, European Commission) ; Aviva Silver (Head of Unit, European Commission - Information Society and Media Directorate-General - MEDIA program and media literacy, European Commission) ; Antoine Virenque (President, EDCF) ; Chris Marcich (President and Managing Director, MPA EMEA) ; John Fithian (President, NATO) ; Christian Sommer, (President/Chairman, Board of the German Federation against Copyright Theft - GVU) ; Christophe van Mechelen (Head of Unit, Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation - BAF) ; Simon Brown (Theatrical Investigator, English Federation Against Copyright Theft - FACT) ; Tim Kuik (Head of Unit, Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland - BREIN)...

Movie exhibitors : Dieter Thielmans (Theatre Manager, Kinepolis Brussels) ; Nico Simon (CEO, Utopia Group) ; Roberto Ferrari (Movie Exhibitor, Cinema Rafaello) ; Gianatonio Furla (Movie Exhibitor, Cinecity)...

Technical suppliers : Gwendal Auffret (Executive Director, Arts Alliance Media Digital Cinema) ; Serge Plash (CEO, XDC International) ; Jean Mizrahi (CEO, Ymagis)...

And also : Paolo Protti (ANEC) ; Patrick Brouiller (President, AFCAE) ; Jørgen Stensland (Head of Consulting Department, Film & Kino) ; Rolv Gjestland (Adviser for Cinema Technology and Design, Film & Kino) ; Michel Gomez (Chief representative, Mission Cinema Paris) ; David Hancock (Senior Analyst & Head of Film and Cinema, Screendigest)... and many more!

UNIC is proud to present...

The European Cinema Summit (ECS) is the new place to be for movie exhibitors. It is the latest trade fair where they will find every thing they need: from movies to supplies and services for their movie theaters.

The ECS is an "all-in-one event", made of conferences, workshops, screenings, demos and a gala evening.

It’s a unique, European, new, young, diverse, fun, technologic and best event for all movie theater owners and their partners! European and American distributors will assist in order to present their line-up. The ECS will take place each year in a different country member of UNIC (International Union of Cinemas).

A word from UNIC's President:

"A warm welcome to all of you ! We are delighted about the ECS and its promising future! This new event will bring together all the European movie theatre owners and will prepare them to face the upcoming challenges of the movie business, on both local and global scales." — Ad Weststrate

The ECS is hosted at the Kinepolis Multiplex, allowing an important flexibility thanks to its 2000m² of exhibition lounge, 4 conference rooms, multi-screens for cinema releases (12 rooms from 100 to 500 places), a terrace, a solarium and its trade fair. Presence of bars and confectioneries; breakfast and lunches organized. You will share best practices in a great & new cinema atmosphere!

Located in a Brussels suburb, it opened in September 1988 and is built as part of the Brupark amusement park which also includes the Oceadium (an indoor swimming complex with saunas and solarium), a model village and a model Europe set in miniature which can be walked through. All screens are THX certified.