The Association of Independent Film Exhibitor's First Annual Conference:
>From Analogue to Digital - Cinema in the Digital Age

The Birmingham Screen Festival will be
hosting the Association of Independent Film Exhibitor¹s first Annual
conference on the 4th and 5th of March 2004.

The Association of Independent Film Exhibitors, the specialist trade
association committed to supporting independent venues, is looking to the
future with their first Annual conference by offering a beginner¹s guide to
the new wave of digital technology. The conference will give delegates a
chance to meet digital exhibition professionals, filmmakers and academics
and address the opportunities and problems of this brave new digital world.
It will also offer an opportunity to observe practical demonstrations of the
new equipment and to discuss its use with some of the policy makers and
practitioners who are actively involved in current initiatives.

This two day practical hands-on event will present the leading exponents of digital exhibition including Arts Alliance whose Picturehouse circuit currently has six cinemas with high definition approved digital projection.

Other participants include: Rickard Gramfors from Folkets Haus in Stockholm, Sweden, Fiona Deans from Arts Alliance, Amanda Nevill, Director of the BFI, Bertrand Moullier Director General from FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) in Paris.