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EVENT
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EVENT
DATE
27th August - 6th September 2008
TOTAL
NUMBER OF SCREENS
2 Screens
Large outdoor LED screens (20 square meters each)
SCREEN
LOCATIONS
Screen 1:
Location in front of Palazzo del Casino
Right next to the RED
CARPET ACTION!!
FROM THE 27TH OF AUGUST TILL THE 6TH OF SEPTEMBER
Screen
2:
Piazza
San Marco
(Saint
Marks Square – Same
as Venice Carnival),
Venice
FROM THE
27TH OF AUGUST
TILL THE 7TH OF
SEPTEMBER
BROADCAST TIMES
9am – midnight,
12 days (15 hours
per day)
PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC FIGURES
100,000 per day both in Lido and Venice
TOTAL
= 1.2
million during the event
EVENT SUMMARY - IMPORTANT POINTS
• OLDEST
FILM FESTIVAL
IN THE WORLD
• 3,000 JOURNALISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
• MORE INTERNATIONAL THAN CANNES
• MORE IMPORTANT THAN CANNES AS A LAUNCHPAD FOR EUROPE'S FALL MOVIE SEASON.
• FEATURES MORE FILM FROM MORE COUNTRIES THAN CANNES
• MOST PRESTIGIOUS FILM EVENT IN THE WORLD.
• MORE EXCLUSIVE THAN ANY OTHER FILM EVENT.
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BACKGROUND / HISTORY OF VENICE FF |
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For
65 years, the Venice International
Film Festival has brought movie
stars, moguls, and the media
to the Lido, the narrow resort
island that separates the Venetian
Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea.
Venice is even more important
than Cannes as a launchpad for
Europe's fall movie season. (The
isn't a bad deal for the Lido's hoteliers,
either, since it extends their
peak summer season by 10 days.)
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"We
have decided to render
the programme more
legible", explained
Müller, "in
order to avoid any
confusion between
different rich and
complex sections." Thus,
the next Festival
will offer three
main sections: Competition,
Out of Competition
and Orizzonti.
The
section dedicated
to digital cinema
and the Mezzanotte
section, reserved
for more spectacular
films, will be absorbed
into the others.
On
the one side "the
digital films will
cross all thesections",
announced the Festival
director, and on
the other, the nocturnal,
'adrenaline-charged'
program will join
the Out of Competition
section and gala
events; in other
words, those with
the greatest appeal.
Finally, the Orizzonti
section will include
an area dedicated
to documentaries,
with seven films
lasting over 60 minutes
and closer in form
to fiction.
These
principal sections
will be flanked again
this year by the
Critics' Week and
the Giornate degli
autori-Venice Days,
as well as a retrospective
section dedicated
to the Secret History
of Asian Cinema. |
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Over
the decades, the Venice festival
has changed focus several
times. It had a strong Hollywood
connection in the 1930s, then gradually
shifted its attention to European
and art films.
In recent years,
the festival has returned to
the mainstream with screenings
of commercial movies like Waterworld,
Crimson Tide Michael
Collins, and Sleepers.
Roger Ebert has described the
Venice festival as "Cannes
without the hassle," and
he could have added that the
beach is better, too.
Each
year's festival also has non-competitive
sections called "Mezzogiorno" and "Mezzanotte" that
highlight 10 films each.
In addition,
the festival has a competition
for short films, a workshop devoted
to leading-edge audiovisual projects,
and special awards for distinguished
film artists. Premiere screenings
at the Palazzo del Cinema on
the Lido are normally followed
by showings in Venice's Campo
San Polo in Venice one night
later.
For 2008, the director, Marco Müller, will present an official selection of about 60 films. This was the line already proposed by Müller after the last Festival and approved by the Biennale's Board on 9th February.
The Coen brothers ‘Burn After
Reading’ will open the festival-starring
George Clooney and Brad Pitt and
those that are going to Venice
this year are: John Malkovich,
Tilda Swinton, Angelina Jolie,
Kiera Knightley, Ralph Fiennes,
Leonardo Di Caprio, Russell Crowe,
Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Spike Lee
(for the ‘Miracle at St. Anna’)
and Nicole Kidman (for the ‘Australia’).
Historical Regatta on the 7th of
September 2008
In the days when Venice was a great
maritime power, skilful oarsmen
were needed for both practical
and ceremonial purposes. Thus,
evolved a tradition for rowing
that has passed from the 13th century
to the present day.
The Historical
Regatta is a spectacular sight,
with the waterways filled with
traditional wooden boats and gondolas
of different sizes, all colorfully
decorated and with crews in historic
costume. There are races in the
afternoon in different classes
of boat, as well as ones for women
and juniors. Before the races there
are ceremonial parades of boats
along the Grand Canal for which
a great number of people wear historic
costumes.
The starting point is
in front of the public gardens
of the Castello, and the boats
race to a pole driven into the
centre of the Grand Canal in front
of the Church of Sant'Andrea de
la Zirada before turning back along
the Canal to cross the finishing
line
Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
awarded by the Venice Film Festival
1969:
tribute to Luis Buñuel.
1970: tribute to Orson Welles.
1971: John Ford, Marcel Carné,
Ingmar Bergman.
1972: Charlie Chaplin, Anatoli
Golovnia, Billy Wilder.
1982: Alessandro Blasetti, Frank
Capra, George Cukor, Jean-Luc
Godard, Sergej Yutkevic, Alexander
Kluge, Akira Kurosawa, Michael
Powell, Satyajit Ray, King Vidor,
Cesare Zavattini, Luis Buñuel.
1983: Michelangelo Antonioni.
1985: Federico Fellini; special
Golden Lion to Manoel De Oliveira
and John Huston.
1986: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
1987: Luigi Comencini, Joseph Leo
Mankiewicz.
1988: Joris Ivens.
1989: Robert Bresson.
1990: Miklos Jancsó, Marcello
Mastroianni.
1991: Mario Monicelli, Gian Maria
Volontè.
1992: Francis Ford Coppola, Jeanne
Moreau, Paolo Villaggio.
1993: Claudia Cardinale, Roman
Polanski, Robert De Niro, Steven
Spielberg.
1994: Ken Loach, Suso Cecchi D'Amico,
Al Pacino.
1995: Woody Allen, Alain Resnais,
Martin Scorsese, Giuseppe De Santis,
Goffredo Lombardo, Ennio Morricone,
Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti.
1996: Robert Altman, Vittorio
Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, Michèle
Morgan.
1997: Gérard Depardieu,
Stanley Kubrick, Alida Valli.
1998: Sophia Loren, Andrzej Wajda
1999: Jerry Lewis
2000: Clint Eastwood
2001: Eric Rohmer
2002: Dino Risi
2003: Dino De Laurentiis, Omar
Sharif.
2004: Manoel de Oliveira, Stanley
Donen.
2005: Hayao Miyazaki
2006: David
Lynch
2007: Tim Burton
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