Will coronavirus shut down film festivals? The Telluride fest says it's on

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Telluride Film Festival, set for early September, said it will proceed this year

. In announcing their intention to press ahead, the organizers of Telluride, which has become a key buzz-making stop on the annual awards season calendar, acknowledged that this year’s gathering “will not be a business as usual event.”

Expanding by a day to allow for more social distancing, the 47th edition of the festival will begin on Sept. 3 instead of the previously scheduled Sept. 4 and run until Sept. 7.

Recognizing the unease many may feel about attending the festival after months of alarming news about the pandemic, Telluride organizers promised that safety would be paramount. “We are not ignorant of the devastation facing the world,” festival organizers wrote. “We feel the fear and distress too. This is why we are committed to observing all guidance as suggested by the consensus of voices of the scientific community with whom we are consulting now.

Given the remoteness, many film industry professionals attending the festival arrive via chartered flights. The festival said it would add an extra chartered flight from New York to help East Coast attendees.

 

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Well, our idiots in LA County just cancelled Hollywood bowl and Greek theatre season for the first time in 100 years so...I hiope other more rational venues will carry on.

Yes.

Stay outta my town weirdos

Oh no! Everybody is going to be there for sure

We rebooted the Olympics!

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