The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has become the latest event to cancel this year in light of the coronavirus crisis.
16.03.2020 - 14:31 / variety.com
The BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival has been canceled days before it was set to launch in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Set to open on Wednesday and run until March 29 at London’s BFI Southbank, BFI Flare is one of the world’s leading LGBTIQ+ festivals. This year’s event was due to present more than 50 features, 85 shorts and a wide range of special events and guest appearances.
The festival was set to open with the world premiere of Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare’s feature debut
The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has become the latest event to cancel this year in light of the coronavirus crisis.
The events were set to take place this August
Between 50 and 70 people have been sleeping in the Palais des Festivals every night
Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware has announced the cancellation of its 2020 edition due to coronavirus. The four-day festival was set to take place at The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway from June 18-21."At the direction of state and local authorities and federal guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we are saddened to confirm the cancellation of Firefly Music Festival 2020.
Add one more film festival to the growing list of events canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Provincetown International Film Festival on Monday confirmed that it will not be moving forward with plans for this year's edition, which was scheduled to run June 17-21.
The 2020 Banff World Media Festival, set to run June 14-17 in the Canadian Rockies, has been canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Canceling the festival after 41 years of success was not a decision that we took lightly, but it was the right thing to do for festival delegates, speakers and staff,” Randy Lennox, president of Bell Media and chair of the Banff board of directors, said Monday in a statement.
The 2020 edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been postponed by the organizers owing to the Coronavirus crisis which has gripped almost every country in the world. Speculations were already rife about the prestigious film festival getting canceled in the wake of COVID 19 scare due to the fear of infection and now the reports have turned out to be true. The mega event was originally scheduled to be held from May 12 to May 23, 2020, in France.
We all knew this was coming. As the world shuts down because of Coronavirus and large gatherings are banned, in order to slow the pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival was an inevitable casualty. It was a matter of when it would be postponed, not if. Well, that news has finally come down, pushing the fest from its initial plan to be held in the middle of May. It was just a matter of time until this happened, though it’s obviously still a bummer.
By Tom Grater
By Tom Grater
The Sydney Film Festival, set to have taken place in June in Australia’s most populous city, has been canceled.
By Tom Grater
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Tribeca Film Festival will no longer be taking place next month.
Hollywood's annual gathering of classic film fans will be scrapped this year amid the spread of coronavirus.
SASKATOON — The Juno Awards have been cancelled over concerns about the COVID-19 outbreak.