yearbook 2004/05 - The European Film College

Photo: Jens Rykær
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES
Money makes the world go around - and the business
By Susanne Kiær Katz
In a few years there will probably no longer exist
a municipality called Ebeltoft. The upcoming
Local Government Reform in 2006 will reduce
the amount of municipalities in Denmark and
that will merge minor townships into bigger
ones, which will also make an impact on the
existence of a municipality called Ebeltoft and
its leadership!
We are not at all happy with that evolution having
for many years had a brilliant cooperation
with the local politicians, but as we can not
fight the upcoming law we will have to prepare
for making it as profitable for the school as possible.
In 2002 the Ebeltoft Council acknowledged the
difficulties involved in providing the service of
running a cinema in a small township like Ebeltoft
with relatively few public screenings on a
yearly basis – even though the fact is that the
two clubs for the more fastidious grown-up audience
and the children are growing and growing.
This resulted in cool cash help from the
Council to safeguard the ongoing running of
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these clubs plus the school-screenings and the
very cosy afternoons for the retired people.
This upcoming summer we will have to re-negotiate
the business agreement with our local
people – as we are still having a municipality
called Ebeltoft! And thanks for that! We will
hopefully be able to make fruitful negotiations
once more – but the hard job to be done will be
how to look into the future with possibly having
“local politicians” very far away from The
European Film College – not only geographically
but also in their relationship – and affiliations
– having perhaps another local cinema
just around their own corner!
The Children’s Filmclub has had two very entertaining
events this season that brought many
people to Big Bear – apart from all the wonderful
screenings. On the opening day a magician,
Karl Stigers, cast his spell on everybody
for more than an hour, and later on during the
season Bent Solhof, who is famous for his adventures
about the fat man Prop and his talking
cow Berta paraded his dolls in the cinema while
he told wonderful stories about their strifes
with a witch and some small pixies living near
them. Both events were sponsored by Molslinien,
the local ferry transportation firm that
brings people from Zealand to Jutland and visa
versa. Thanks to them and other local sponsors
it is possible to arrange entertainments for the
children that combine “real people” with movies
that relate to the performers.
School-screenings have also been given to a
packed cinema every time – often for two
screenings of the same movie, as the number