Eurovision News Events

Lido de Venezia, Italy, 27th August - 06th September, 2014

The 71st Venice Film Festival opens Aug. 27 with the world premiere of Alejandro Inarritu's "Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance," starring former "Batman" Michael Keaton as an actor struggling to get beyond a famous superhero role.

The festival runs to Sept. 6, when a jury led by composer Alexandre Desplat awards the Golden Lion for best film and seven other prizes.

This year's Venice Film Festival will tackle topics from the financial crisis to drone warfare, and feature performances from Willem Dafoe, Al Pacino, Jennifer Aniston and Ethan Hawke.

Organizers announced a 20-strong competition lineup that includes Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani's subprime-mortgage drama "99 Homes," with Andrew Garfield and Laura Dern, and New Zealand-born filmmaker Andrew Niccol's "The Good Kill," starring Hawke as a dissatisfied drone operator.

Nineteen of the 20 films are world premieres, with one international premiere with films from Italy, France, the U.S. and the UK.

Eurovision Special Events, in cooperation with Media House Eurovision Rome, will provide full broadcast facilities to services covering the 71st Venice Film Festival.

We can offer standard and customised services to channels and programme makers covering the festival. Eurovision Venice offers live standup position with views on the catwalk and the Lido and will provide daily access to the film festival coverage which will consist of ceremonies, catwalk arrivals, photo-calls, presser and trailers.

A limited number of workspaces cabled with pool coverage are available to broadcasters working with the Eurovision Network on first-come, first-served basis.

Eurovision Special Events will offer the following facilities onsite:

HD-SD Standup positions for Live programme inserts
Playout (multi-format)
HD production and transmission facilities upon request
Access to available festival coverage in individual workspaces or shared distribution space
Non-equipped workspaces
Connectivity to the Eurovision Global Network

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