The Cannes Film Festival, which started this week, resumed Monday after journalists complained about the online ticketing problem.
The festival said the difficulties “most likely stemmed from the goal of flooding the site with ticket requests and preventing festival visitors from accessing the site.”
Also today, festival director Thierry Fremo told reporters at a press conference that the festival is experiencing online bot attacks that could be part of the problem.
A portal where journalists can “easier access to online reservations” has also been added to the festival (click here).
The festival announcement is below.
The technical difficulties encountered with the online ticket service this morning are likely due to actions aimed at saturating the website with ticket requests, thereby blocking festival-goers’ access.
We are currently working to resolve the issue.
By the way, to make it easier for you to access online reservations, in addition to the old ones, we have just activated a specific link for journalists:
ticketpresse.festival-cannes.com
This link is open to the press only. You can now log in at this address, find your old reservations and sign up for new ones.
Source: Deadline
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