Sydney Film Festival launches iPhone App.
May 5th 2010 12:30
In a first for Australian moviegoers, Sydney Film Festival patrons will be able to purchase and receive tickets on their iPhone.
No more waiting in queues or relying on computers or printers for your tickets – at the Festival in June you simply present your iPhone at the cinema door to scan a ticket barcode and go into a session. Films such as Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop, John C. Reilly’s new comedy Cyrus or the new documentary showcasing Joan Rivers in her 75th year Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, will only be a flick of your finger away.
Named SFF2010, the new application – which is set to change the way audiences purchase tickets for festivals, events and cinemas – was developed by Australian software development company eFirst. It will be available free to download from the Apple AppStore and iTunes on Wednesday, May 5.
Says Jenny Neighbour, Sydney Film Festival Program Manager “we are very excited to partner with eFirst to provide this fun development for our patrons. Our priority is to ensure our audiences have easy access to the program and purchasing tickets and our own iPhone app ensures we are moving with rapidly developing technology to ensure that happens.”
Receiving purchased tickets in the form of a barcode should take less than a minute after installation of the app and data. It will make ticket purchases easier and make attending the Festival more flexible and spontaneous for all film-lovers.
Accessing the SFF2010 app will enable users to interact with the Sydney Film Festival in the palm of their hands. Features include:
• Browse and search the 2010 program by date, venue, pathway and country
• Watch film trailers
• Browse daily 'What's On' at the festival
• Identify sessions that are selling fast
• Keep up to date with the Festival’s Official Competition
• Get the latest festival news and gossip with one-touch access to Sydney Film Festival’s Twitter, Facebook and YouTube channels
• Buy tickets securely on credit card
• Access paperless tickets: purchased tickets will be sent direct to your iPhone as barcodes, for scanning and entry at the cinema door
The new app links to Festival venues including the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Opera Quays and the Art Gallery of NSW.
The SFF2010 iPhone App, built with Apple's Xcode development software and written in Objective C, allowed eFirst to build the app onto their ticketing system software. The app communicates to the ticketing system via web requests encrypted with SSL and allows you to browse, select and buy tickets to sessions, and make payment securely via credit card. Once sessions are purchased, a 2D QR barcode which represents each ticket is downloaded into the phone and can be scanned at the cinema door from the face of the phone by using Wifi-connected, hand-held scanners. Duplicate barcodes are rejected at the cinema door by the scanning technology.
Tech-savvy audiences will benefit from the flexibility, convenience and time saving of the SFF2010 app, enabling spontaneous and comprehensive access to the nation’s leading film festival.
The 57th Sydney Film Festival is a proud partner of the NSW Government through the departments of Industry & Investment NSW and Communities NSW, the Federal Government through Screen Australia, and the City of Sydney. The festival’s Official Competition partner is Events NSW.
The full program for the 57th Sydney Film Festival, 2-14 June 2010, will be announced on Wednesday 5 May 2010. The program guide will be included in The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday 7 May.
Festival Website
No more waiting in queues or relying on computers or printers for your tickets – at the Festival in June you simply present your iPhone at the cinema door to scan a ticket barcode and go into a session. Films such as Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop, John C. Reilly’s new comedy Cyrus or the new documentary showcasing Joan Rivers in her 75th year Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, will only be a flick of your finger away.
Named SFF2010, the new application – which is set to change the way audiences purchase tickets for festivals, events and cinemas – was developed by Australian software development company eFirst. It will be available free to download from the Apple AppStore and iTunes on Wednesday, May 5.
Says Jenny Neighbour, Sydney Film Festival Program Manager “we are very excited to partner with eFirst to provide this fun development for our patrons. Our priority is to ensure our audiences have easy access to the program and purchasing tickets and our own iPhone app ensures we are moving with rapidly developing technology to ensure that happens.”
Receiving purchased tickets in the form of a barcode should take less than a minute after installation of the app and data. It will make ticket purchases easier and make attending the Festival more flexible and spontaneous for all film-lovers.
Accessing the SFF2010 app will enable users to interact with the Sydney Film Festival in the palm of their hands. Features include:
• Watch film trailers
• Browse daily 'What's On' at the festival
• Identify sessions that are selling fast
• Keep up to date with the Festival’s Official Competition
• Get the latest festival news and gossip with one-touch access to Sydney Film Festival’s Twitter, Facebook and YouTube channels
• Buy tickets securely on credit card
• Access paperless tickets: purchased tickets will be sent direct to your iPhone as barcodes, for scanning and entry at the cinema door
The new app links to Festival venues including the State Theatre, Event Cinemas George Street, Dendy Opera Quays and the Art Gallery of NSW.
The SFF2010 iPhone App, built with Apple's Xcode development software and written in Objective C, allowed eFirst to build the app onto their ticketing system software. The app communicates to the ticketing system via web requests encrypted with SSL and allows you to browse, select and buy tickets to sessions, and make payment securely via credit card. Once sessions are purchased, a 2D QR barcode which represents each ticket is downloaded into the phone and can be scanned at the cinema door from the face of the phone by using Wifi-connected, hand-held scanners. Duplicate barcodes are rejected at the cinema door by the scanning technology.
Tech-savvy audiences will benefit from the flexibility, convenience and time saving of the SFF2010 app, enabling spontaneous and comprehensive access to the nation’s leading film festival.
The 57th Sydney Film Festival is a proud partner of the NSW Government through the departments of Industry & Investment NSW and Communities NSW, the Federal Government through Screen Australia, and the City of Sydney. The festival’s Official Competition partner is Events NSW.
The full program for the 57th Sydney Film Festival, 2-14 June 2010, will be announced on Wednesday 5 May 2010. The program guide will be included in The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday 7 May.
Festival Website
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