Barco lights up the Piazza Grande at
the 61st Locarno Film Festival
August 6, 2008
Source: Barco
Barco, a global leader in digital cinema projectors,
has been selected by XDC as exclusive projector supplier for
the 61st Locarno Film Festival, taking place from August 6th
to 16th. The highlights of this festival are the open-air
screenings at Piazza Grande, where Barco's DP-3000 will be
used to give spectators the ultimate movie-experience.
Every August, around 190,000 cinema-goers, over 1,000 journalists,
and 3,200 professionals gather in the small Swiss-Italian
town of Locarno, for an unforgettable eleven day film festival.
The Locarno Film Festival presents 100 digital screenings
in 5 different venues, including the famous Piazza Grande.
At nightfall, the Piazza Grande transforms into a unique open-air
cinema with an impressive 26 meter screen and room for 8,000
spectators.
To contribute to the magic of these screenings, XDC has chosen
Barco's DP-3000, the brightest "large venue" digital
cinema projector in the industry. Using Texas Instrument's
1.2 inch DLP Cinema® chip, the DP-3000 is designed for
screens up to 30m wide. "We want to provide the Locarno
Film Festival with the best possible technologies," says
Fabrice Testa, Vice President Sales & Business Development
at XDC International. "The Piazza Grande is the biggest
challenge as we need a projector that is bright enough to
project in open air. By using Barco's 2K digital cinema projectors
we are sure to offer the Locarno audience unsurpassed image
quality in all circumstances."
"We are proud to have been chosen for the Piazza Grande
at the Locarno Film Festival," comments Tim Sinnaeve,
Sales Director Digital Cinema at Barco. "This allows
us to really show the high performance qualities of our digital
cinema projectors, even in a non-traditional environment such
as an open-air cinema. "
In addition to the Piazza Grande, the Teatro Kursaal, Auditorium
Fevi, La Sala and Rialto are all equipped with Barco's DP-2000
digital cinema projectors. The DP-2000 incorporates Texas
Instrument's 0.98 inch DLP Cinema® chip and is designed
for screens up to 20m wide. All these projectors exemplify
Barco's hallmark of unrivalled image quality while maintaining
focus on maximum ease of use, maximum uptime and minimum cost
of ownership.
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