Registration is now open for films and for accreditation requests

Registration opens today, Wednesday February 1^st, for the films and immersive projects to be selected for the 80^th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (30 August – 9 September 2023), directed by Alberto Barbera.

To apply for the selection, the pre-selection entry form must be completed online on or before June 15^th 2023, following the instructions in the Regulations of the 80^th Venice Film Festival which can be found at the following address: https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2023/regulations.

For the Orizzonti Corti Competition the deadline for registration is June 1^st 2023, while for Venice Immersive the deadline is May 29^th.

Only works presented as world premieres (or international premieres for the Venice Immersive projects) are eligible for the selection of the 80^th Venice Film Festival, and must meet the following criteria:

· they must have been completed after September 11^th 2022
· they must not have had any form of commercial distribution or streaming on the Internet
· they must not have had any public or press screening, nor participated previously in any other film festival or event.

The sections of the 80^th Venice Film Festival will include:

· Venezia 80
· Out of Competition
· Orizzonti
· Orizzonti Extra
· Venice Classics
· Venice Immersive

The Venice Production Bridge (31 August – 5 September 2023) is the film market organized as part of the Venice Film Festival and dedicated to the presentation of unreleased projects or works-in-progress, to advance their development and production.

The Venice Production Bridge offers film industry professionals the following events: the Book Adaptation Rights Market, one-on-one meetings between selected editors/literary agents and producers interested in film adaptations of their catalogue; the Venice Gap-Financing Market, dedicated to a selection of feature-length films and immersive projects that seek to complete their financing in one-on-one meetings with international professionals; Final Cut in Venice, a workshop in which the working copies of the selected films will be proposed to film industry professionals for post-production and to promote their access to the market; Meet the streamers, dedicated to SVOD/VOD platforms; the Venice Immersive Market, addressed to the XR/VR/AR market; the European Film Forum, an event organized with the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Union.

The Venice Production Bridge will also give continuity to the previously developed services: Market Screening, Digital Video Library, an exhibition area, Industry Gold Club, Business Centre, and a series of international panels and events.

Also online in the Accreditation section are the regulations for accreditation at the 80th Venice Film Festival for the following categories:

· Industry
· Film Delegation
· Cinema
· Cinema for students