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Phayvanh Luekhamhan 🍸's avatar

Thanks, I will forward the best practices to our team I didn’t know about them til I read this

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Christopher Schiller's avatar

I wish the Film Festival Alliance well, though its mission will be difficult to achieve. The one thing I wish that all festivals would come to understand is that, they are not in competition with each other. So many festivals feel proprietary over selected films, and that insistence harms both the films/filmmakers and the festivals themselves. So many festivals fade away because of this illusionary bias. A sharing and mutual celebration of great works makes every festival that recognizes that quality effort shine as a beacon of good taste and trusted curation.

I go to multiple film festivals every year and the mix is between some of the biggest and some of the smallest. Each festival gives me something different, unique to each organization even when I am seeing films that have played the other festivals I attend. I chose festivals because of their character, their selection of great films and never have I not attended one because the films weren't in premiere status. It's not a competition, it's a celebration and we can all participate and bring our own spin to the spinning of plates of entertainment value to the show.

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