All Presentation Systems in use at the 69th Venice Film Festival are compliant with current DCI Specifications and SMPTE Standards.
It is requested to send two identical DCP copies of the same film (one is the backup copy) by August 12th, 2012. Each DCPs must contain only the related movie. No other content should be included.

Each DCP submitted to the 69th Venice Film Festival must be compliant with the “Interop DCP Format”. While it is encouraged that film distributors eventually migrate to “SMPTE DCP Format”, players at 69th VFF will continue to support Interop DCP Format, KDMs, and Certificates.

Each DCP should be delivered on a Physical Media (Hard Disk Drive) that supports the CRU, eSATA, and USB2 data interface.

Each Hard Disk Drive (for the DCP Show Print, and for the DCP Backup), must include the DCP TECHNICAL FORM provided by the Festival. Information included in this form should be precisely supplied by the organization that will submit the movie to the 69th Venice Film Festival.


Additional information and requirements
The 69th Venice Film Festival requires that On-Screen Subtitles should be delivered as burned on the picture. If delivered as file embedded in the DCP, and/or as Supplemental Package, it is your responsibility to have them in sync with each frame of the entire movie, and interoperable with D-Cinema systems at 69th VFF. No correction can be made by the team at 69th VFF.

Key Delivery Message (KDM). If the DCP requires the KDM, it is mandatory to provide KDMs valid for all Server Certificates used during the 69th Venice Film Festival.

The validity must start 10 days before the screening date, and end on September 9th (the day after the end of the 69th Venice Film Festival).

It is advisable to deliver the KDMs via e-mail to Angelo D’Alessio (angelo.dalessio@labiennale.org) and to the Cinema Department of La Biennale (digitalcinema@labiennale.org). Please indicate by August 12th the person to whom the Festival team should send the Server Certificates.

Off-Screen Subtitles. These will appear on a separate screen under the main screen. The file must be delivered on separate media. These subtitles must be in sync (timed text) with on-screen subtitles. We require that you send a 100% identical DVD and the lists of subtitles with timecode - both in Italian and English - by August 12th. Off-Screen Subtitles for 3D Stereoscopic DCP are not accepted.

It is strongly recommended that each DCP (Show Print and Backup) have a Total Quality Check (TQC) before sending it to the 69th Venice Film Festival. The TQC (Image quality, picture format, audio quality, subtitles, etc.) should be done, and validated, at the laboratory that created the DCP. These quality checks must be done using a standardized D-Cinema system. It should be noted that no changes/modifications to the DCP and/or the HDD can be done at 69th VFF.

Contact us at digitalcinema@labiennale.org