ebio European Digital Cinema Forum EDCF

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e-bio European Digital Cinema Forum (EDCF)

• to function as a network for European
  co-operation on e- and d-cinema issues and
  activities
• to identify key issues, gather information and
  create models to encourage private investments
  and public support schemes for e- and d-cinema
• to liase with other relevant bodies to assist in
  the establishment of appropriate world-wide
  standards for e- and d-cinema
• to co-ordinate and establish European user
  requirements for standards for all parts of the
  e- and d-cinema chains
• to intitiate and co-ordinate RD projects
  relevant to European e- and d-cinema
• to stimulate European production of high-quality
  digital content for e- and d-cinema.

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e-bio The Swedish Workgroup for E-Cinema

• Åse Kleveland, Managing Director, Swedish Film
  Institute Lasse Svanberg, Head of New
  Technology, Swedish Film Institute Mats
  Kullander, SF Bio (Swedish Film Industry), The
  Co-operation Committee of the Film Trade Mats
  Erixon, Royal Institute of Technology, Head of
  Technical Operations, Advanced Media Technology
  Lab, project "People's Hub" Bo-Erik Gyberg,
  University College Director, School of
  Photography and Film, Göteborg University,
  project "From Acetate to Megabit" Anders
  Janocha, Technical Manager, Chalmers Media Lab,
  Gothenburg, project "From Acetate to Megabit"
  Peter Weiss, Managing Director, Weiss Invest
  Consulting AB Aske Dam, Media Consultant, IMA
  Norway Gunno Sandahl, Director of Culture,
  Folkets Hus Parker (FHP), pilot project
• Peter Wester, Head of pilot project Folkets
  Hus Parker

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e-bio The Swedish Workgroup for E-Cinema

• closely follow the international development of
  e-cinema
• establish co-operation with international
  counter-parts (with emphasis on Europe)
• assist in the launching process of a national
  field-test with e-cinema
• function as an objective, public knowledge-bank
  on e-cinema issues
• investigate alternative uses of e-cinemas
  especially from a regional and suburban
  perspective (see under Nordic E-cinema Award
  2001)
• integrate the e-cinema concept in the on-going
  and rapid buildup of national broadband networks
  in Sweden
• arrange conferences - Cinema without celluloid
  October 3rd 2000, Film production without
  celluloid April 1st 2001 and December 5th 2001
• publish work reports The technology, economy and
  market potentials of e-cinema (September 2000),
  E-cinema - possible juridical, industrial and
  cultural consequences (March 2001) and "E-cinema
  Content" (February 2002) in co-operation with
  (EDCF).

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e-bio NORDIC E-CINEMA AWARD 2001.

• Prize sum SEK 100.000
• DeadlineWednesday October 10th 2001
• InvitedStudents at Nordic universities or
  polytechnics with an
• established record in research on media, computer
  and
• telecommunications technology
• Organizer juryThe Swedish Workgroup for
  E-cinema, Swedish Film
• Institute, plus sponsor representatives. The
  decisions by the
• jury are final.
• Task Locate a suitable public hall in your
  region. Look at it with new
• eyes (including perhaps a bit of rebuilding).
  Equip it (fictionally) with a selection of
• all known telecom and display technologies (and
  why not a few today unknown
• ones). Write a scenario for how this new public
  cpace might be used during a day
• and night