Remote scouting.

Absolutely, because it's important that now you know the production is changing.

Producers are more and more using virtual productions.

And sometimes you have special organizations who are helping producers and scout location managers to see without automatically... going to each country, they are proposing already some interesting sites or whatever so that they can make a first choice, if I could say so, and to limit their transportation to a very located and specific thing.

So it's a gain of time, a gain of money automatically for everyone.

And this...

This panel will be showing how Scott Location and producers can gain time and money.

And going on, there's another very important highlight today, another important pillar of the Venice Production Bridge, which is the annual seminar on gender equality and inclusivity in the film industry.

so today it's very important special day because because it's the beginning of something new the first edition of the Venice production bridge location market which will happen today September 7th and tomorrow the 8th so what can we expect today from this

I hope a lot of things.

The Venice Production Bridge is a market which is focusing on producers and production.

And we have been talking about gap financing, the book adaptation, rights market, final cut in Venice, and so on and so on.

And for me, something was missing.

And it's really all the shooting phase.

And so that's why I decided to create this year the Venice Bridge.

So what more is happening today?

So what can we say about this year's selection, Pascal?

I would say that this year it has been, as usual, a very tense and difficult, I would say, edition because it's the first year we have received so many projects.

We received over 370 projects.

Keeping in mind that even if at the end we have 65, 66 projects, at the beginning we are selecting 40 projects only out of those 370 projects.

which means around 30 feature films and 10 immersive projects.

Why do we have more at the end? It's because we are also welcoming the Biennale College Cinema immersive section.

Usually you have around... 10 to 12 projects.

And meanwhile, on the Immersive Island, in the morning, there will be the presentation, the pitch of the projects of the Venice Gap Financing Market Immersive.

A quite important anniversary, Pascal, this year.

Yes, indeed.

And even before the immersive, together with the Venice Gap financing market, we opened a VR, at that time, a VR section 10 years ago.

And then, because of the...

I would say booming of the VR and then the AR, XR, and so on, we decided to create an immersive market, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, as you were mentioning, and which become... now the number one immersive content market in the world.

And so for us, indeed, on the first day of the market, we start already with the Venice Immersive Market with different angles.

We have this year a special event.

Yes,

A quite important anniversary, Pascal, this year.

Yes, indeed.

And even before the immersive, together with the Venice Gap financing market, we opened a VR, at that time, a VR section 10 years ago.

And then, because of the...

I would say booming of the VR and then the AR, XR, and so on, we decided to create an immersive market, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, as you were mentioning, and which become... now the number one immersive content market in the world.

And so for us, indeed, on the first day of the market, we start already with the Venice Immersive Market with different angles.

We have this year a special event.

Yes,

A quite important anniversary, Pascal, this year.

Yes, indeed.

And even before the immersive, together with the Venice Gap financing market, we opened a VR, at that time, a VR section 10 years ago.

And then, because of the...

I would say booming of the VR and then the AR, XR, and so on, we decided to create an immersive market, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, as you were mentioning, and which become... now the number one immersive content market in the world.

And so for us, indeed, on the first day of the market, we start already with the Venice Immersive Market with different angles.

We have this year a special event.

Yes,