The Venice Film Festival has taken the unusual step of scrapping its main jury press conference this year, we can reveal.
The festival, which gets underway next week, hasn’t made a public statement to confirm the break from protocol but confirmed the move to us after multiple requests to know if it was going ahead.
The move comes at a time of highly charged press conferences at A-list festivals with jurors and talent being quizzed by journalists repeatedly about global politics, especially the Israel-Gaza war.
The festival denied that the move was made with those considerations
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