Can I Pick Premium Screenings in the Advance Order Book?

At this point, it sounds like no, you shouldn't pick Visa Screening Room Premium Screenings even if they do show up in the Order Book. People seem to be hearing different things from different people (commenter Tess earlier heard it was ok), but commenter Parabola did a bit more investigation:

"I went over the box office folks, and the person there brought over someone "official looking". He said it was a screw-up that the premium shows were in the Order Book. He wasn't sure what the resolution would be, but advised that if you want to risk picking something obviously "premium" (e.g., those 6pm/9pm showings at Elgin), be sure to have a backup choice because he didn't know if any of those selections would end up being honored."

So, the safest bet at this point is to not select anything that might be a premium screening. This would be any screening at the Visa Screening Room (the ones at Roy Thomson Hall don't show up in the book) that also happens to be the first screening of the film at the festival (you can check which screenings each film has on pages 85 - 91 on the official schedule).

I haven't heard back from the festival on my e-mail query, but feel free to add comments to this post if anyone hears anything else. Hopefully the festival will make some sort of clarification.

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