Securiton safeguarding the leopard’s den
The Locarno Festival, formerly known as the Locarno International Film Festival, is the most important film festival in Switzerland and one of the most renowned in Europe. For 70 years Swiss and international directors have been competing for the festival’s coveted Golden Leopard trophy. The festival’s new headquarters, the PalaCinema, were inaugurated in 2017 to mark the event’s 70th anniversary.
The prestigious building is equipped with stateof- the-art fire alarm and intrusion detection systems from Securiton. Each August the Locarno Festival attracts more than 170,000 spectators, 1000 journalists and 3000 industry representatives. For eleven days, Locarno becomes the world capital of arthouse cinema, films in which the director, by also largely determining all the other artistic aspects of the production such as screenplay and editing, is regarded as the author of the film. Hundreds of films are shown in retrospectives and in the competition for the Golden Leopard. Several open-air film screenings take place in the Piazza Grande in front of 8000 spectators a time.
PalaCinema – the new headquarters
The film festival was able to inaugurate its new, prestigious headquarters in the Palazzo del Cinema (PalaCinema for short) late last summer. The converted former school building houses three cinemas – one seating 500 seats, the other two seating 150 each. It also contains multi- purpose rooms, a café, administrative offices for the festival management, the festival archive, offices for Cinémathèque Suisse (the country’s national film archive) and journalists – and much more. The premises are used all year round for dance and theatre performances, congresses and other events.
Comprehensive safety and security
Securiton AG was commissioned to install a comprehensive safety and security solution. The entire building is protected by a SecuriFire 3000 fire alarm system, which is equipped with hundreds of MCD 573X multi criteria (smoke and heat) detectors. The particularly large rooms – the three cinemas and the entrance hall – are watched over by precise and reliable SecuriRAS ASD 535 aspirating smoke detectors. To keep uninvited visitors out of the building, the entrances and passageways are monitored using the SecuriSafe 2000 intruder alarm system and 13 video cameras, whose images feed the IPS VideoManager system. In the event of an emergency, the 67 loudspeakers of the voice alarm system from g+m Elektronik, also part of the Securitas Group, ensure that everyone leaves the building quickly and safely.
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