More than 1000 accredited journalists from over 30 countries around the world cover the Festival del film Locarno each year. The Press Office is ready to help you with your work, on the first floor of the Palazzo Sopracenerina.

Over the eleven days of the Festival, our press aides and the Press Office team will be there with the following services:

  - Interview Coordination
  - Stills and Press Kits
  - Mailboxes
  - TV Service
  - Press Screenings
  - Press Conferences
  - Press Review
  - Video Library
  - Press Room
  - Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)

Interviews with jurors, special guests, directors and casts of films in the official selection present in Locarno, as well as with the president and director of the Festival are planned and coordinated by the international press agents. They can be contacted through the festival’s Press Office:

 - Jenny Billeter, German and French speaking Swiss press
 - Stefanie Kuchler, Italian speaking Swiss press
 - Frauke Greiner, German and Austrian press
 - Chloé Lorenzi, French press and French speaking countries
 - Patrizia Wachter, Italian press
 - Sarah Wilby, English speaking press and all other territories

A list with the contacts of the press agents for the selected films will be available on this website in the area reserved for the press from July 29th.

Stills and Press Kits

All film stills and press kits can be downloaded from this website in the press area.


The Festivals Photo Service

The Festival presents a daily selection of photos available to journalists on this website. It is also possible to order exclusive pictures.

From this year on, to reduce the environmental impact, the Festival has decided to cancel the traditional press-boxes.
The Press Office will send, on a daily basis, all the material on the films and official information in electronic format, to your email adress.You may, on request, consult or take hard copies, where available, of information on films in the Selection, from the Press Office, located on the first floor of the Sopracenerina.

Please remember that you can obtain a Press Room Card, which gives access to the Press Room, which has work-stations, internet, printers, phone and fax.

Clips of certain films will be available at the Press Office. To copy the video clips they will be lent to the journalists, but must be returned to the Press Office as soon as possible. For television representatives, who do not have access to their own duplicating equipment, the technical services of the Swiss Italian Radio and television (RSI) can be rented just a short walk from the Palazzo Sopracenerina. At the Video Library sound and video recordings of official press conferences and round tables, etc. will be available to radio and TV journalists.

The Festival offers press screenings for the films in the sections Concorso internazionale (International Competition), Concorso Cineasti del presente (Filmmakers of the Present Competition) and Piazza Grande.

For press screenings there will be a simultaneous translation service in French or English and in Italian, depending on the language of the subtitles.

WARNING: EMBARGO!
Since the general public will only be able to see these films later on, we remind journalists that they are kindly requested to respect the embargo and not publish reviews of the films before the day following their first official screening.

The program of press screenings will be available on this website in the area reserved for the press from July 29th or at the Press Office.

The Press Conferences with film delegations of the Concorso internazionale (International Competition) and the Piazza Grande will generally be held around 11 a.m. at the Palazzo Morettini on the same day as their official screening.
Film delegations of the Concorso internazionale presented in the FEVI Auditorium will meet the audience after the official screening at the FORUM Spazio/Cinema.

Meetings with the audience for the sections Concorso Cineasti del presente (Filmmakers of the Present Competition) and all other sections will take place in the theater after the official screening.

A detailed program of the Press Conferences will be available from July 29th on this website in the area reserved for the press.

A daily international press review will be posted at the Sopracenerina.

The majority of titles in the official selection can be viewed at the Video Library, situated on the right of the entrance to the Altra Sala Theater. Opening hours: 10 a.m. until 7.30 p.m. (August 4-14, 2010). The access is reserved for press and professionals. Reservation required.

Journalists who have purchased a Press Room Card - available at the accreditation desk for 20 CHF (12 €) - will be able to use the Press Room, situated on the 2nd floor of Palazzo Marcacci. Computers with internet access, printers, fax machines, telephones and workstations with wireless or cable internet facilities are at disposal.

Opening hours:
from 3rd thru 14th of August, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.;
on the 15th of August, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The wireless Internet connection will also be available inside the Palazzo Sopracenerina, on the Piazza Grande, and at the Spazio/Cinema. The password will be given when the accreditation is picked up.