Fatima Djoumer has been appointed Basic Director of unbiased exhibitor community Europa Cinemas, changing Claude-Eric Poiroux who’s stepping down after 30 years within the position.
Poiroux has been awarded the title of Honorary President in recognition of his work in constructing the community, which at this time represents 3,060 screens in 744 cities in 38 nations, which collectively pull in 83 million admissions yearly.
Djoumer, who was beforehand COO of the community, stated Poiroux has been seminal within the improvement of Europa Cinemas through the years.
“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 intensive and numerous community,” she stated. “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 position within the movie ecosystem and to constructing audiences.”
Moreover, a brand new steering committee was additionally introduced. Nico Simon (Luxembourg) stays President for an additional 12 months, whereas Metka Dariš (Slovenia) and Mathias Holtz (Sweden) take over as Vice-Presidents with Benoît Thimister (Belgium) elected Treasurer and Maria-Magdalena Gierat (Poland) elected Secretary.
The Europa Cinemas community was created in 1992 with the assist of the European Union’s Artistic Europe program and at this time exists in partnership MEDIA program. It’s also supported by France’s Nationwide Cinema Centre (CNC), the Council of Europe’s Eurimages, Germany’s FFA and the Institut Français.
“With the creation of this community and its improvement because of the continued monetary assist of Artistic Europe MEDIA because the early beginnings we now have strengthened exhibitors of their programming selections in direction of European movies and of their dynamic and modern methods to construct and renew audiences,” stated Poiroux.
“This community is greater than ever important for the expansion and visibility of European movie,” stated Poiroux.
