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As Dolby Laboratories announces, Dolby will become an “official supplier” to the Berlin International Film Festival and, from next week, will provide its digital-cinema equipment and services for the 60th anniversary of the Berlinale.
The ten-day festival starts on Thursday, February 11, and is regarded as the world’s best-attended film festival. In the previous year, it recorded 20,000 visitors from the film industry, including around 4,000 journalists, and public ticket sales of 270,000. As digital cinema plays an increasingly important role in the festival’s presentation, the organisers once again turned to Dolby’s Production Services Group to ensure that the more than 40 screenings in digital-cinema format, including the entries nominated for the coveted Golden and Silver Bears, meet the industry’s highest standards.
“The Berlinale is undoubtedly one of the busiest festivals,” said Julian Pinn, Director of Distribution Services at Dolby, “not least because so many screenings are open to the public. And when things are this busy, the organisers simply have to be able to rely on first-class technical support, and we at Dolby are happy to help.”
Alongside digital-cinema support, the team of Dolby technicians is also expected to enable more than 70 screenings whose soundtracks use Dolby E audio technology.
“The Dolby Production Services Group has extensive specialist knowledge and the perfect technical solutions,” explains Dr Reiner Chemnitius, Technical Director of the Berlinale. “It guarantees the highest quality in screenings, and we are delighted to have it on board again this year to support the festival.”
With major international films, independent and art-house productions, experimental films, foreign-language films and short films shown at many different locations, the festival’s technical requirements are enormous.
“We are celebrating the 60th Berlinale and are delighted to continue our technical cooperation with Dolby,” says festival director Dieter Kosslick. “This cooperation is based on mutual trust, and we particularly value the quality and flexibility of the services Dolby provides to the Berlinale every year.”
Tickets for publicly accessible Berlinale films are available from February 8.
