The Central Alberta Film Festival is eagerly anticipating opening night this year, as they have moved to Festival Hall in order to space out chairs to allow for social distancing.
Currently, the Alberta Government allows for indoor gatherings of 100 people, which also means there will be no festival passes this year so they can more easily keep track of the number of people using individual tickets.
It will also change the way the movies are shown, says Communications Director for the Film Fest Tanya Mullakady.
“So to avoid those crowds in certain time frames again, we will just be having one set of films. So it’ll be a little more like if you want to come but don’t want to stay for the feature, then it’ll be free-flowing, so if you’re coming in the middle we’ll still let you in. It’s not like closed-door theatre anymore *laughs* like most often it would be!”
This year, a portion of the ticket sales will go to the Canadian Mental Health Association, something that is more important than ever now, says Mullakady.
“As a local charity and especially in this year of 2020, they have...seen their needs gone up. But just the focus on mental health, it was big last year, but keeping people isolated from each other, I think it was increased even more this year. “
They still plan on having their in-person red carpet event and awards ceremony on Saturday night.
The movie blocks will run from 6 pm until 8 pm each night.
The Central Alberta Film Festival will take place from October 14th to the 17th. More details on how this year will operate are available at cafilmfestival.ca.
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