HOURS

• Press office
  Kursaal Centre – Room 4
  Hours: 8:30-15:00 and 16:00-20:00
   
• Accreditation pick-up point
  Kursaal Centre – Accreditations desk
  Hours: 8:30-14:00 and 16:00-20:00
  The desk will remain open all day long on September 20th, 21st and 22nd.
   
• Lockers
  Kursaal Centre
  Hours: 8:30-20:00
   
• Interview service
  Kursaal Centre – Room 5
  Hours: 9:00-20:00
   
• Clip Loan
  Kursaal Centre – Room 5
  Hours: 8:30-20:00
   
• Newsroom
  Kursaal Centre – Room 6
  Hours: 8:30-20:00

SERVICES

• Lockers

The Festival uses the lockers to distribute all of the promotional material provided by producers and other interesting information to accredited press members.
Keys are available on showing your pass, but please don’t forget to give them back at the end of the Festival.

• Virtual press boxes

Official web space containing promotional material provided by producers (pressbooks, images, audio and video clips) and gala abstracts.
You can access it with your user key.

• Clip Loan

Temporary loan to television crews and online media of available excerpts of programmed films. The journalists themselves are responsible for copying these.
Abstracts of the opening, closing, Basque Film and Donostia Award galas, plus the Festival logo are also available.

• Interview service

The Festival list of press agents, films and personalities can be found on the official Festival website: http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/agentes.php
English and French-speaking interpreters will be provided for interviews arranged by the Festival on request.

• Newsroom

Equipped with:
- Online computers
- E-mail
- Printers
- Desks where you can plug in your own laptop
- Special connections for graphic reporters

The Newsroom will stay open for longer than usual the days Galas are held to permit accredited press members to go about their work. 

• Wifi

The Kursaal Centre offers free WiFi for accredited guests.
Username: zinemaldia
Password: 2012
Several hotels in San Sebastian also offer free WiFi to guests accredited at the Festival. Please ask for information at your respective hotels.

• Festival equipment for television interviews in suite 103, Maria Cristina Hotel

Canon 60D DSLR camera
Recording format: HD Vide (1920x1080i)
File format: Mov (Mp4-H264)
Memory card: Secure Digital – SD CARDS -
– Recommended: class 10 – minimum class 6
– Minimum recommended capacity: 8 Gb. (24 minutes)
3 clip-on mics + audio cables.
DXA-SLR audio adapter
Shure mixer
Lighting
Monitor

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS

• Official festival website

Find up-to-date information on all Festival activities, the Festival programme, press conferences and other interesting information, on www.sansebastianfestival.com

• Zinemaldia

The San Sebastian Festival daily, available in the locker area, hotels and cinemas.

• Notice Board

Located in the Kursaal Centre locker area and in the Hall of Maria Cristina Hotel beside the hostess desk, here you will find full up-dated information on the daily programme, arrival of film crews, press conferences, photocalls, Zabaltegi Get-togethers, Horizontes Breakfasts and last-minute notifications.

• Mobile phone alerts

Alerts informing you on the day’s arrivals, programme changes and last-minute notifications.
Subscription: €5, to be paid at the Press Office.

 GENERAL ACTIVITIES

• Press screenings

All feature films programmed in the Official Selection, New Directors, Zabaltegi and Horizontes Latinos are exclusively screened for the press and accredited guests. A list of these screenings is provided with the Festival documentation. They are confirmed daily on the official Festival website, in your lockers, on the notice boards and in Zinemaldia.

• Press conferences

Kursaal Centre. Rooms 2 and 3
Programmed press conferences can be found in the “Press” section of our official website.
These press conferences usually take place after the morning screenings of Official Selection films in the Kursaal 1 and are preceded by a photocall.
Press conferences are also organised for other films and the retrospectives. These are announced in the usual manner.
We offer a simultaneous interpretation service. Headphones are available at the entrance to the Press Conference Room in exchange for your pass.
The audio recordings of press conferences are digitized and made available to the press on the official website, where you can also watch them in delayed transmission mode.

• Horizontes breakfasts

Press Club. Kursaal Centre, Room 1. Daily, at 11:00
The Horizontes Breakfasts are attended by Horizontes Latinos filmmakers attending the Festival. These are announced daily in the usual manner.

• New Directors and Zabaltegi Get-togethers

Victoria Eugenia Theatre Club. Daily, at 14:00.
The New Directors and Zabaltegi Get-togethers are attended by filmmakers participating in the section attending the Festival. These are announced daily in the usual manner.

•  Closing gala

Rooms 2 and 3 are equipped for live coverage of the Closing Gala by accredited press. At the end of the Gala, the winners will make their way to this room to be interviewed. 

 

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

• Photocalls

Following the morning screenings of films in the Official Selection, and prior to the press conference, a photocall will take place on the Kursaal Terraces. Prompt notification will be given of any changes in location.
There will also be photocalls before all other press conferences.

• Press areas at venue entrances

The Festival assigns spaces to photographers at the entrance to the Kursaal 1, Victoria Eugenia Theatre and María Cristina Hotel.

• Access to galas

Access to the Kursaal 1 for the Opening, Closing and Donostia Award galas is restricted to photographers, who must respect the following instructions:
- Remain seated, without standing up, until the end of the gala
- Do not use flashes during the ceremony
- Leave the hall at the end of the ceremony
- It is forbidden to film images in any format for delayed transmission

• Admittance to the velodrome

Photographers may enter the Velodrome to take pictures of film presentations and must leave the venue immediately these presentations are over.