IFFR Press Service & Practical Information

Planning your attendance

Please do take a minute to read the following on the dates and structure of the screenings of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. It may help to plan and take full advantage of your attendance period.

- Opening Night Wednesday January 25, 2012: Opening Night screenings are by invitation only.

- Regular public screening programme takes place from Thursday January 26 up and including Saturday February 4, 2012. On the last festival day (Sunday February 5) only prebooked screenings take place; these screenings are not open to accreditated press.

- The Press & Industry screenings programme runs from Thursday January 26 up to and including Thursday February 2, 2012. See more information below.

- IFFR's short and medium length film section (Spectrum: Shorts) takes place from Thursday January 26 up to and including Monday January 30, 2012.

- The Awards Night of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films takes place on Januari 30, 2012.

- IFFR's Awards Night (Tiger Awards NETPAC Award, FIPRESCI Award, KNF Award) takes place Friday February 3, 2012.

- The UPS Audience Award and the Dioraphte Award for Best Hubert Bals Fund supported festival film are announced prior to the screening of the Closing Night Film on Saturday February 4, 2012.

- The 28th CineMart takes place within IFFR 2012 from Sunday January 29 up to and including Wednesday February 1, 2012.

Collecting your IFFR press-badge / Administration Fee
1. Upon arrival, first collect your IFFR Press badge at the Accreditation Desk

in the IFFR Professionals Centre de Doelen (Willem Burger Foyer, 3rd floor). Please note that IFFR charges an accreditation fee of Euro 50,00 for press accreditation, payable in cash or by credit card. Your IFFR press badge is available from Wednesday January 25, 9 am. After paying your accreditation fee, you will receive your Press badge and a free copy of the IFFR 2012 Catalogue.

2. After collecting your Press badge, please come to the Press Desk, also located at the Willem Burger Foyer of the IFFR Professional Centre at de Doelen to receive additional press information and (if applicable) your hotel voucher.

Please read on for an overview of the services available to IFFR 2012 accredited press representatives:

Press Conferences 
The IFFR has no regular schedule of press conferences but prefers to offer one to one interviews. If the IFFR organises Press Conferences and Photo Calls, information is available at the Press Desk. An invitation will be distributed through email and your festival pidgeon hole at the Press Desk. IFFR Press badge holders are welcome to attend the Press Conferences.

If organized, Photo Calls usually take place prior to the Press Conference. During the Press Conference you are kindly requested to switch off your cell phone and to not use flash.

Press Office
The Press Office of the IFFR can be contacted year round for information on the IFFR organisation, the IFFR programme, Cinemart, the Hubert Bals Fund and all other IFFR events. During the festival, the Press Office is located at IFFR Professional Centre de Doelen (3rd floor, right behind the Press Desk). IFFR Press Officers will be present for comments, information and upon request for arranging interviews with the IFFR staff members.

Press Desk
The IFFR Press Desk is located at the 3rd floor (Willem Burger Foyer) of the IFFR Professional Centre at de Doelen (entrance Willem Burger Zaal). The members of the Press Desk team will assist finding your way through the festival. Upon arrival in Rotterdam and collecting your IFFR Press badge, please also come to the Press Desk for further information.

The Press Desk opening hours:

Wednesday January 25 – Wednesday February 1, 2012 from 9 am till 8 pm

Thursday February 2 – Saturday February 4, 2012 from 9 till 6 pm

Any member of the IFFR Press Desk team can answer your questions and arrange for your interview requests. As each of them is specialised in a group of festival titles and associated attending talent, please do not hesitate to ask for more information.

Interview Requests and Interpreters
IFFR Press badge holders are invited to contact the Press Desk for arranging their interview requests with attending talent. If possible, interviews take place on a ‘one to one’ basis; there is a possibility - in agreement with the filmmaker - of a photocall and an interview room. We ask for your understanding if the attendence period of talent does not allow for all interview requests to take place. For interview schedules with directors from films acquired for distribution within The Netherlands, the IFFR Press Desk collaborates with the distributor’s representatives.

In case an interpreter is needed during the interview session, the IFFR Press Desk will arrange for this.

Press Dossiers 
Upon request, the IFFR Press Desk will provide additional information about feature films and documentaries within the IFFR 2012 programme.

Film Stills

From Thursday January 19, 2012 until June 2012 stills of IFFR 2012 titles (if available, in high resolution print quality, 300 dpi at 10 x 15 cm) are available for free download from the ‘Press’ pages on the IFFR Professionals' website. Prior to January 19, 2012, please send an email with your request for stills to press@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

During the festival, the IFFR Press Desk can, upon request, send stills by email to you or your editor. Still prints or transparancies are not available. 

Trailer / film clips 
For the purpose of television broadcast and online use, the IFFR provides free use of clips and/or trailers from a selected number of IFFR 2011 titles on DVD and, in some cases, on Betacam SP tapes present at the Press Office.
Please call at the Press Desk first to ask if a trailer or clip is available. The DVD's and tapes are available for copying at own cost. The originals have to be returned to the Press Office the same day and as soon as possible. The IFFR does not provide copying or editing services. For copying purposes we can provide address and contact information of nearby, Rotterdam based companies.

Camera and sound crew / Audiovisual registration
Media using camera- or sound crew are asked to contact the Press Office well in advance of the festival period. Non-accredited media with camera and sound crews wishing to report on the festival, have to contact the Press Desk or Press Office to notify their presence.

Please note that audio- and/or visual registration of any IFFR film screening is strictly forbidden. To register IFFR 2012 events such as Award Ceremonies, please contact the Press Desk or Press Office. For further information or assistance please contact the IFFR Press Desk or Press Office.

Mail Boxes
The mail boxes for accredited journalists are located at the Press Desk, on the third floor of the de Doelen. All IFFR 2012 Press badge holders have a personal mail box. You are kindly asked to check it regularly and collect your mail.

Press releases
Year round, the IFFR Press Office sends out email press releases on news about the IFFR, CineMart and Hubert Bals Fund activities. All press releases are available online on the ‘Press’ pages of the IFFR website. During the festival period, prints of press releases will be available at the Press Desk.

Video library

IFFR Press badge holders are welcome to use the IFFR Video Library to view festival titles on video. As the Video Library is open to all our Press and Industry guests, we ask for your patience if viewing seats are  not available, especially during the CineMart (Jan 29 – Feb 1, 2012).

Service Center
IFFR Press badge holders are welcome to the Service Centre on the third floor of de Doelen to use online computers and, at your own expense, fax and photo copying facillities. In the Willem Burger Foyer, online computers are placed to check your e-mail.