The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as planned this fall, the region’s governor confirmed on Sunday.
Luca Zaia, governor of Veneto, said the world’s longest-running film festival, which was due to take place Sept. 2-12, is still on. The official’s confirmation comes days after the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival among a number of other arts events, moved its Biennale of Architecture to 2021, but maintained the film festival’s fall dates. Previously, the architecture and film festivals were meant to overlap.
Zaia said on Sunday that the Biennale of Architecture was postponed due to complications in constructing the necessary pavilions. The film festival will proceed, although he warned that there will likely be fewer films this year.
Venice surveyed a wide range of film industry executives in early May to ask for concerns and suggestions about the upcoming edition, as reported by Variety. The letter, which was signed by Venice’s artistic director Alberto Barbera, was meant to gauge how many filmmakers, actors and producers are willing to attend the fest.
(Excerpt) Read more in: Variety