Wednesday | 27. March. 2013
PULA FILM FESTIVAL AND CROATIA LOTTERY SIGN SPONSORSHIP CONTRACT
A sponsorship contract was signed by the Pula Film Festival and Croatia Lottery at a press conference held at Park Plaza Histria Hotel on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Festival’s director Zdrenka Višković-Vukić, President of the Board of Directors of Croatia Lottery Danijel Ferić, and marketing and sales director of Arenaturist Manuela Kraljević addressed the audience.
The sponsorship of the jubilee 60th Pula Film Festival is just another example of how Croatia Lottery supports cultural events, reaffirming its mission to generate funds organizing games of chance in a controlled and responsible fashion for financing socially beneficial activities and activities of public interest. This is the first time that Croatia Lottery, this year celebrating its 40th birthday, and the Pula Film Festival, celebrating its 60th anniversary, cooperate. However, this is the beginning of a years-long partnership between the two institutions.
Apart from this project, that was the initial reason for the press conference, Danijel Ferić announced the opening of the Croatia Lottery Casino at the Park Plaza Histria Hotel, which will be employing 30 people during the entire year. In addition, Croatia Lottery’s new game Eurojackpot, that will be recognized by visitors from 14 EU countries, adds to Croatia’s tourism offer.
The Pula Film Festival celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Since as far back as 1953, when the first film revue took place in the Arena, the Festival developed into a certain and recognizable element of Pula’s tourism offer without which Pula would not be what it is – a true city of film. Last year a record of 78 300 visitors came to the festival. This year, considering the jubilee edition, the Festival is expecting an even larger number of people.
Director Zdenka Višković-Vukić thanked Croatia Lottery for recognizing the film festival and the Pula Film Festival as an institution that has been developing true partnerships with its sponsors, respecting differences and creating new values for the Festival and the sponsors through joint creative thinking for many years now. A good example is Arenaturist which hosted the press conference and which has been the official hotel of the Pula Film Festival for many years. The director then invited the citizens and visitors to mark the anniversary and come to the Festival because it owes its longevity primarily to a faithful audience.
