PRACTICAL INFO FOR FOREIGN PRESS:
Dear press members,
Here you will find up-to- date practical information concerning you arrival and stay at the 13th TDF:
TICKETING POLICY
The press badge allows access to all screenings and events, unless otherwise specified.
The 13th TDF screenings will take place at the Olympion Cinema Complex, which houses the Olympion 1 (ground floor) and (Olympion 2) Pavlos Zannas (5th floor) theaters and the Festival Headquarters and offices, as well as the John Cassavetes, Stavros Tornes, Tonia Marketaki and Frida Liappa theaters at The Pier (Provlita), within walking distance from the Olympion Cinema Complex and main hotels. An additional screening room will be used at the AKMI Institute of Vocational Training on 14 Tsimiski Avenue, also within walking distance from the Festival Headquarters.
Please note that IT IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN 0 VALUE TICKETS FOR ENTRANCE TO ALL SCREENINGS. These tickets can be obtained both on the day of the screening and up to 2 days in advance of the screening at the Olympion and Liappa/Marketaki theater box offices.
CHECKING IN UPON ARRIVAL IN THESSALONIKI
1/ For those of you arriving by plane:
Once you pick up your luggage, make your way to the arrivals hall and look for the Film Festival Hospitality Booth. In case you have not been previously informed, attendants at the booth will inform you which hotel the Guest Service has booked you in, and they will direct you to buses and cars, which will transport guests to their respective hotels.
After checking into your hotel room, please go to the Guest Service office, on the 1st floor of the Olympion building (left-side entrance).
After checking in with the Guest Service and picking up your badge, please come to the Foreign Press office (also on the first floor to the left side of the Olympion main entrance) to pick up the Festival bag containing all press-related material and to receive additional information available to representatives of the foreign press. Note that the Press Room, equipped with computers and free wi-fi access for those with laptops, is open daily from 10.00 – 20.00 and is also located next to the Press office.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD NOT PICK UP YOUR FESTIVAL BAGS FROM THE GUEST SERVICE. THE BAGS RESERVED FOR THE FOREIGN PRESS WILL BE HANDED OUT ONLY FROM THE FOREIGN PRESS OFFICE.
2/ For those arriving in Thessaloniki either by train or bus:
Take a taxi from the respective station either to:
- The hotel the Guest Service has registered you with. Then, as explained above, make your way to the Guest and the Foreign Press Service offices.
-Go directly to the Guest and the Foreign Press Service offices if you do not know which hotel you will be staying in.
For train and bus passengers, it would be very helpful for the Guest Service to know if you have an estimated time of arrival. Either email, fax this information to them or give them a call.
For all information concerning your trip to and from Thessaloniki as well as your hotel, please contact Ms Stella Stavrinodaki and Ms Sofia Tiblalexi at our Athens offices, until Tuesday the 8th (included). From the morning of Thursday the 10th the Guest Service is fully operational in the Thessaloniki office. During the in-between days, you can contact the Guest Service via email.
Ms Stella Stavrinodaki and Ms Sophia Tiblalexi
Guest Service
9 Alexandras avenue
11 473 Athens
Tel + 30- 210 870 60 00 - operator
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Similarly, the Foreign Press Office can be reached in its Athens phone numbers until Tuesday the 8th (included). From the morning of Thursday the 10th the Foreign Press Office is fully operational in the Thessaloniki office. Before that, please contact us in the mobile phone mentioned in the end of this document. Our email addresses remain the same and functional throughout.
Foreign Press Contacts
Alexis Grivas / Lilly Papagianni
Foreign Press
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
9 Alexandras ave., 11473, Athens, Greece
Tel: 30 210 8706000, Fax: 30 210 6448143
www.filmfestival.gr
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