The Venice Film Festival is showing a new way forward for events in the coronavirus era and, despite mandatory masks, temperature checks and enforced social distancing, it's working surprisingly well. More details:
Holding a major festival in what, just a few months back, was a global hotspot for coronavirus infections, felt incredibly risky. After Cannes, Telluride and others canceled, Venice's plans to push ahead looked foolhardy. Even if a festival could be held safely, the logistics of ensuring proper hygiene — mandatory mask-wearing in cinemas, every second seat kept free, online booking, and temperature checks — threatened chaos.
"It is very strange to be here, with the masks and everything, but I think it is very important to have Venice now because somehow the film industry has to restart," said Greek director Christos Nikou, whose debutopened the festival's Orizzonti sidebar on Wednesday."We all know that our industry was hit more by COVID than other industries. Most of the theaters have been closed in the past few months. But I'm optimistic we will find a way out of this.
Venice is also being helped by a generous portion of goodwill from the industry, which has everything to gain if this experiment works.
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