Venice Film Festival is shielded against Coronavirus

To do this, the organizers and the director, Alberto Barbera, have defined a protocol to receive both the stars and the filmmakers, including personalities such as Australian actress Cate Blanchet, president of the jury.

- Avoid contagios -

Measures must avoid infections in the midst of concern because the Venice region is registering a new case.

The contest, which will maintain almost the same number of films of the last editions, will project a total of 60 feature films in five different categories, of which 18 in competition, the organizers indicated.

To access the Lido de Venice, on the banks of the Adriatic Sea, where the entire festival takes place, "nine entries endowed with thermal scanners", the protocol says.

"Access to anyone with a temperature of 37.5 degrees or more," warns the organization.

All guests from countries that are not from the European Union must undergo a test three days before traveling and during the successive days of their permanence in Venice they must submit to other tests, on behalf of the festival.In case of being positive they will be isolated.

The guests, including the delegations of the films, the stars and directors that accompany them that do not belong to the countries of the Schengen zone, must undergo the second and third test, use mask and maintain social distance in addition to avoiding related activities relatedWith tourism.

Among the guests are two directors from outside that area, such as Mexicans Michel Franco, in competition with "New Order" and Yulene Olaizola, who will compete in the Horizons section with "Tragic Jungle".

All film rooms and local means of transport will be regularly disinfected.

The number of positions in the projection rooms will be reduced, as well as in the press room and in the press conferences.

"The places occupied with the empties will be alternated," says the organization.

- Red covers without audience -

The mythical stars parade through the red mat towards the Cinema Palace, which attracts fans, will be eliminated for the public and will attend only photographers, which must keep the proper distance between them.

"The public will not be able to attend the entry of delegations to avoid agglomerations," the organizers explained.

The masks will be mandatory in all external areas, during the ranks to enter, in the movie theaters and during the press conferences.All people circulating within the spaces of the Mostra will be identifiable.

It will be made available to the public "disinfectant gel, in the projection rooms, in the accesses and corridors, at all meeting points," says the protocol.

Both the public and the accredited journalists must reserve their place in advance online, on the www page.Labiennale.org.

"Tickets will be sold exclusively online to avoid tails," says the note.

The size of these measures shows that the festival's direction is willing to avoid a catastrophic scenario that would make the legendary lid.

After the first wave of Coronavirus, the Cannes Film Festival had to cancel its 2020 edition in May, so Venice now wants to send a "positive" signal after a black year marked by closed rooms, unemployed shootings andcanceled festivals.