In order to attend press screenings at the New York Film Festival, you have to scan in your ID badge. These badges are color-coded, with orange and red representing high value members of the industry and press who always get in; the rest of us greens have to line up and hope the Walter Reade Theater doesn’t fill before we reach the doors. If you manage to make it through the queue, the Lincoln Center ushers scan a barcode on your badge, collecting important information on who attended which screening when — information which is passed along to PR companies, film distributors, and (presumably) the festival itself.
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