Deluxe Media is partner of the 76th Locarno Film Festival

Paris (France) – July 27 2023 Deluxe, the global provider of digital and cloud-based solutions to cinemas and production studios, and distributors worldwide, is proud to be the official digital cinema content provider of the Locarno Film Festival for the eighteenth consecutive year.

The 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival will be held from August 2 to 12, 2023, in Locarno's Piazza Grande, in the city's cinemas as well as in the usual temporary screening sites. For the first time in Locarno’s history, the reception, the delivery and the local distribution of the 214 features and short-films will be done mostly digitally.

For 18 years, we have had a long and solid partnership with Locarno Film Festival which enables us to know the teams, processes and stakes. We continually improve our workflows to ensure the best quality of service. This year, we are very proud to have worked alongside the Festival Image & Sound team to completely transition to digital content management: from reception of content to delivery to screening sites. “This 76th edition also marks our team’s full integration to Deluxe. The Locarno Film Festival will benefit from our Quality Check capacity in Belgium and France, that, if needed, can be extended with the 24 QC rooms that we have over 13 countries. Locarno Film Festival is a very important and significant time, standing out for its mission to promote independent and innovative cinema, its diversity of programming and its friendly atmosphere open to all cinephiles. Deluxe teams in Liège-Barchon and Paris especially are very happy and proud to contribute to its success,” comments Marie-Laure Barrau, General Manager Northern Europe at Deluxe.

“We have been working with the Deluxe team since 2006. Our procedures are well established, and we have jointly adjusted them over the years. Deluxe supports the Festival in its continual technological evolution and this year marks the passage to a whole digital process in handling film prints both for features and for short-films. Local distribution is also improved with the introduction of a new centralized NAS at film stock. Thanks to the support of Deluxe, through their secured Aspera services, we will receive, verify with full quality check and then deliver to the local venues almost all of the Locarno official selection, that for this edition means about 214 films, so that the rights holders and the public can attend the screenings in the best possible conditions in all cinema venues and in the exceptional setting of the Piazza Grande“ adds Elena Gugliuzza, Image & Sound Coordinator of the Locarno Film Festival.

ABOUT DELUXE MEDIA

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ABOUT LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL

Since its inception in 1946, Locarno has hosted the most daring, avant-garde and irreverent forms of cinema in their uncut and uncensored versions. Nestled in the mountains of beautiful Lake Maggiore, the Swiss-Italian town dons the Festival's colors - black and leopard yellow - each year for an 11-day celebration of cinema. The event offers more than 300 screenings, lectures, events, conferences, concerts, art exhibitions and parties, all within walking distance of each other.

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Source : Deluxe Media