FRIDAY 15 JUNE
11.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE (QFT Foyer)
12.00 WELCOME Michael Alcorn (QUB)
12.30 LUNCH
13.30 PANEL 1: (MAIN)STREAMING ‘NICHE’ CINEMAS
Dina Iordanova (St. Andrews): Digital Disruption Cinema Moves On-line
Sheila Petty (Regina): Nollywood Streaming: How the Nigerian Digital Video Phenomenon is Challenging African Cinema
Karl Schoonover (Warwick): Where in the World is Queer Cinema?
15.00 COFFEE
15.30 PANEL 2: ONLINE DISTRIBUTION AND FILM CULTURE(S)
Paul McDonald (Nottingham): Unplugging the Bottleneck? Online Distribution, Digital Utopianism and the Diversification of Film Culture
Julia Knight (Sunderland): Three Issues for Experimental Moving Image in the Era of Digital Distribution
Philippe Brodeur (Aertv.ie): Don’t Buy an Ad – Buy the Whole Channel
17.00 BOOK LAUNCH and RECEPTION
Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line by Dina Iordanova and Stuart Cunningham (eds)
Introduced by Paul McDonald
SATURDAY 16 JUNE
9.30 PANEL 3: CINEMA – ON DEMAND
Malte Hagener (Marburg): Around the World in 80 Clicks: The changing shape of film culture
Patrick Vonderau (Stockholm): Beyond Piracy: Understanding Digital Markets
Ana Kronschnabl (Fluffylogic): Plugincinema and the Pluginmanifesto: a Retrospective
11.00 COFFEE
11.30 PANEL 4: FROM THE NATIONAL TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Alejandro Pardo (Navarra): Spanish Cinema Goes Online: Threats and Opportunities in the Digital World
Laura Rascaroli (UCC): Italy in Europe: the mutating challenges of international distribution
Niamh Thornton (Ulster): Bridges, Streams and Dams: the multiple negotiated strategies of distribution and access in Latin American Cinema
13.00 LUNCH
14.00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (participation to this session is for speakers only)
PDF: World Cinema On Demand – Programme