What Day One of the Socially Distanced Venice Film Festival Looked Like

Following the cancellation of Cannes and the virtual festivals at SXSW and Tribeca, Venice organizers decided to go ahead with a live event, with. As such, it will be closely watched by the organizers of other upcoming festivals—notably Toronto and New York—as they plan their own mix of virtual and IRL events in the coming months.

On Wednesday’s opening event, festival director Alberto Barbera was joined in solidarity by the directors of seven other European festivals—including Thierry Frémaux of Cannes and Tricia Tuttle of London—as he emphasized the importance of seeing a film in a theater and not streamed at home on a laptop. “The feeling of watching a film on the large screen with other people is in the very nature of the film industry,” said Barbera. “We have to support cinemas.

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