Over 75,000 people (76.3 percent occupancy) visited Austria’s largest international film festival last year. The Treaty of Eva Sangiorgi, which has headed the Viennale since March 2018 and is responsible for programming the festival at an international level, has now been extended until March 2029, as the Viennale announced in a broadcast on Thursday.
“I would like to thank Eva Sangiorgi for the accents that she has and will also set and set on the world cinema, but also on the precious of the Austrian, internationally more and more and more and more real-speaking films,” congratulates Kulturkadtwoman Veronica Kaup-Hasler. “I am looking forward to further exciting and stimulating editions of the Viennale, a festival that is located to inspire people sustainably for the medium of film. Festivals are valuable platforms that invite and encourage social and political questions.”
In challenging times, festivals such as the Viennale are required to react to changes, make adjustments and find contemporary solutions in order to make younger people curious about the cinema. Not least at festivals such as the Viennale – or at arthouse cinemas such as horticultural cinema and city cinema – the commitment of the city of Vienna can be seen for a various festival landscape and the existence of a diverse and remarkable cinema culture.
The board and the board of trustees of the Viennale have entrusted Eva Sangiorgi in agreement with cultural councilor Veronica Kaup-Hasler for three more years with the organization of the festival. The two funding agencies City of Vienna and the Section IV of the Federal Ministry of Living, Art, Culture, Media and Sport BMWKKMS support the management’s tender after the end of the further 3 years. This was discussed with the board of the Viennale.
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