FFTV: the Festival’s digital magazine

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival is putting its relationship with Thessaloniki and its people, and especially the younger friends of cinema, on a new footing and is opening, just like cinema itself, a new chapter oriented towards digitalmeans and the communicating of Festival actions to the Festival venues and throughout the city – and beyond. The aim is for cinema that becomes life and life that becomes cinema to come out of the theaters onto the street and spread everywhere.

“In order for cinema to remain alive, it would have to keep inventing everything from the start,” Renoir has said. Based on his words, which lie at the core of the Festival’s 50th edition, the Festival presents this year, for the first time, its own digital magazine, FFTV (Film Festival TV).

The magazine will broadcast through plasma screens in the Film Festival venues and in major public hubs and hotels across the city, with an aim to keep the public abreast of the Festival’s actions and events. The program’s daily flow will include Festival news updates, film trailers, and clips of events, interviews, discussions, etc.

FFTV will also be available through the Internet as Video on Demand.

Briefly, the FFTV program will include:

• The presentation of all actions and film tributes, film directors and Festival segments
• Coverage of sidebar events (exhibitions, concerts, award ceremonies, masterclasses, etc.) in conjunction with reportage on the most important events of the previous days 
• Trailers and analyses of scenes of their films by the directors themselves (Analyze This) 
• A presentation of the“Diary” section of the Festival’s Proto Plano (First Shot) newspaper, as well as of interviews published in it 
• Green spots featuring the Festival’s environmental actions 
• A running report on“actions in the city” 
• A presentation of filmmakers through the Q&A sessions with their audiences 
• Excerpts from topical discussions from“Just Talking”, as well as from discussions among members of the audience 
• A selection of filmgoers’ comments made to the Festival’s web cams 
• Tracking of the progress of the audience award and voting updates 
• Spots featuring audiences and guests commenting on the 50th Festival’s motto: “Why cinema now?”