Present COO Fatima Djoumer has been appointed CEO of the Europa Cinemas community.
Djoumer succeeds founder Claude-Eric Poiroux, who’s stepping down from his function as basic director after 30 years. Poiroux has been awarded the title of honorary president, recognizing his contribution to the creation and growth of the community, which now contains greater than 3,000 screens in 744 cities throughout 38 international locations.
The community was arrange in 1992 to offer operational and monetary help to cinemas that undertake to provide a big a part of their screenings to non-national European movies and to place in place actions for younger audiences.
Moreover, a brand new steering committee has been elected with Nico Simon (Luxembourg) remaining president for an extra 12 months. Metka Dariš (Slovenia) and Mathias Holtz (Sweden) be a part of as vice presidents. Benoît Thimister (Belgium) was elected treasurer and Maria-Magdalena Gierat (Poland) secretary.
“The entire community will all the time owe a debt of gratitude to Claude-Eric whose imaginative and prescient has allowed us to construct such an in depth and numerous community. Europa Cinemas core perception is that cinemas are important to the way forward for movie. Our community is continually discovering modern methods to boost its function within the movie ecosystem and to constructing audiences. Europa Cinemas has a extremely energetic membership that’s dedicated to variety, inclusion and innovation and we’ll proceed to give attention to turning their ardour into sensible motion. We’re pleased with the event of the community and of our nice partnership with the European Fee Media program,” Djoumer stated.
Poiroux added: “With the creation of this community and its growth because of the continuing monetary help of Inventive Europe Media for the reason that early beginnings we’ve strengthened exhibitors of their programming selections in direction of European movies and of their dynamic and modern methods to construct and renew audiences. This community is greater than ever important for the expansion and visibility of European movie.”
Europa Cinemas is supported by Inventive Europe/Media, Program of the European Union (Brussels), CNC (France), Eurimages (Council of Europe, Strasbourg), FFA (Germany) and Institut Français (Minister for Europe and Overseas Affairs, France).
