UEFA EURO 2012 Ceremonies Kick Off in Full Italian Style

UEFA EURO 2012 Ceremonies Kick Off in Full Italian Style

MILAN, March 29, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

- UEFA EURO 2012

- Marco Balich will be the Creative Director of the Opening and Closing

Ceremonies

- The Filmmaster Events President, after the recent victory of the Rio
2016(TM) Olympic Ceremonies, is one of the most prominent figures around the world in Show

and Ceremony productions.

After an international competition, UEFA awarded the task of creating and producing
the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the UEFA European Football Championship 2012 to
Filmmaster Events/Filmmaster Group, one of the international leaders in the production of
great events and spectacular ceremonies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Filmmaster
Events is guided by Marco Balich, the creator of the ceremonies for the Olympic and
Paralympic Games held in Turin in 2006 and winner, together with the Brazilian society
SRCOM, of the executive production of the Olympic ceremonies of Rio 2016(TM). The first
production for the Rio 2016(TM) will be the Flag Handover from the London 2012 Olympic
Games.

(Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20120329/523123 )

(Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100916/407897 )

The opening ceremony will take place on 8 June at the National Stadium in Warsaw in
Poland before the kick-off of the opening match between Poland and Greece. The closing
ceremony will take place in Kyiv on 1 July at the Olympic Stadium. More than 800
volunteers will be involved in the opening and closing ceremonies at UEFA EURO 2012.

Recruiting of volunteer performers for the UEFA EURO 2012 ceremonies has already
started and the open positions include dancers, gymnasts, actors, acrobats. People who
want to be part of the team must have energy for an event that will be watched by people
all around the world.

Marco Balich is the creative director and executive producer of great events and
ceremonies, one of the most prominent figures in the global live entertainment scenario.
He designed many international events such as the Flag Handover in Salt Lake City, the
Turin 2006 Olympic Ceremonies, the Carnival of Venice, Mexico City's 2010 Bicentennial
Ceremonies, the New Delhi Commonwealth Games' Opening Ceremony, the 75th Anniversary of
Shakhtar Donetsk FC in Ukraine, and the inauguration of the Juventus FC Stadium in Turin.

To take part in the organizing team as a volunteer performer please visit:
http://www.castinguefa.com and http://www.castinguefa.com/blog.

http://www.filmmaster.com, http://www.marcobalich.it

Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20120329/523123
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100916/407897

Source: Filmmaster Events

For media enquiry, please contact: Francesca Marchi, mob. +39-347-1111920, francesca.marchi@filmmaster.com; Silvia Giorgi, mob. +393455411454, silvia.giorgi@filmmaster.com

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