TICKETS & PASSES  

 

  2008 Festival Passes went on sale November 1,2007 and sold out on
November 13, 2007.
  TICKET INFORMATION
 
• Films will be announced in March.
• Individual tickets will go on sale April 6, 2008.
• Tickets are $10 for each screening. Student tickets are $8 each.
• Tickets are available at the Virginia Theatre, 217-356-9063
• All the films will be shown at the historic Virginia Theatre
• A Festival pass gives you entrance to ALL screenings.
• Only festival pass holders are allowed in the theater between screenings. Make sure you
   are wearing your passes at all times!
  TICKET POLICY
 
The number of Festival passes sold is limited to 1,000. An additional 500 seats are reserved
for individual ticket holders and sponsors. We want to make sure that everyone who wants
to attend the Festival – be it for one film or all of them – can be accommodated.
SOLD OUT FILMS
 
If you want to see a film that is sold out, go to the Virginia Theatre Box Office 30 minutes before the
screening time and wait in the rush ticket line. Shortly before the film begins, any empty seats will
be sold on a first-come first-served basis. NOTE: At every festival since 2002, all patrons waiting in line for tickets for sold out films were able to get in.
  FESTIVAL PASSES WAITING LIST
 

The Virginia Theater has generously offered to maintain a waiting list for those who want to buy Festival passes. In the event additional passes become available, those on the waiting list will be contacted by phone or email, according to the order in which they were added to the list (on a first-come, first-served basis). Those on the waiting list will be given the contact information for those unable to use the passes they'd purchased, and the re-sale of the pass(es) will be conducted directly between the seller and the buyer. Any resale of passes should be done at cost, i.e. no scalping or discounting.

Please call the Virginia Theatre at 217-356-9063 to be placed on the waiting list.