Fifth international B2B conference "Film Business in Ukraine" will be held on September 12, 2012 as a part of Kiev Media Week.

  International Сonference “Film Business in Ukraine: challenges, features, opportunities” is held annually in Kiev and is always being organized by Ukrainian media consulting company “Media Resources Management”.

  To ensure its relevance to the current business realities, the format of the conference is rather new for Ukrainian market but approved in Europe long ago – one-day event based on panel discussions, real-life “case studies” and speeches of outstanding film industry professionals.

  The first conference, which took place in April 2008 in Hotel Radisson SAS, gathered around 150 delegates from Ukraine, CIS states, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Poland and Romania and received wide media coverage. 22 print publications and 4 TV channels (ranging from the behemoth of Ukrainian broadcast – Inter TV Channel to one of the most famous international media publications – The Hollywood Reporter) chose to feature materials on the Conference.

  The Second conference in June 2009 got the attention of even more film industry professionals from around the world. The Conference took place in President Hotel and was covered by 6 TV channels, among them nationwide Inter TV Channel and “ICTV” (news reports in prime time) as well as  “Enter film”, “First Business Channel” etc., and more than 40 well known Ukrainian and Russian specialized publications.

  The Third conference in April 2010 gathered more than 110 delegates from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, etc. The event was as usually covered by numerous  mass media including market leaders “Expert”, “Business”, “Kommersant”, “Ekonomicheskie Izvestia” and nation-wide TV channels “Inter”, “1+1” (market leaders) and “First Business Channel”.

  While the  first Conference had been devoted to the general problems in film industry and demonstrated rather detailed market review, 2009 year conference’s mission was adapted to the vital economic conditions and was proclaimed as: to help companies operating in the film sector build successful strategies to combat the effects of the economic downturn by providing viable alternatives and real life examples of effective solutions from the movers and shakers of the industry from all over Ukraine, Russia and Europe. Moreover even economic stagnation contains hidden opportunities for success and the real task is to find and use them. As a result, our conference in 2009 really became the evident practical manual for film industry insiders. The topics discussed over the course of the Third conference in 2010 were related to the realities of the market which has started to overcome the economic downturn and faced the beginning of a  new era of digital technologies. Since theatrical distribution was the most dynamic sector of the film market last year, perspective of development in this sphere was deeply analyzed in course of the event.  Great deal of attention was paid to digital cinema and 3D technologies that influenced further development of the market. Another hot topic of the conference was the state support of film industry. And traditionally the most successful film producers shared their experience with audience and outlined future of film production.

  In course of the IV Film Business in Ukraine conference, which was held on September 16, 2011, organizers gave the audience unique opportunity to get practical advices how to cause funds and investments for film projects. Russian and Ukrainian lawers, having huge practical experience in film industry investing, told about investment schemes that do work. Also the current and future trends of film industry state support in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus were discussed. 

  Every among our speakers are the leaders of  the film industry of Ukraine as well as that of neighboring  Russia.  Their speeches are based on the real life business experience and not on theory.