Sundance to Sarajevo
Introduction
No one wants to speak against the Bible, but the sentiment in Ecclesiastes
famously insisting "to every thing there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under heaven" in no way applies to the universe of film festivals.
Month in, month out, from the Flickfest International Outdoor Short Film
Festival starting in early January in the Bondi Beach area of Sydney,
Australia, through the Autrans Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films
ending in mid-December in the high, thin air of southeast France, there is
barely a day on the calendar where some film festival is not being
celebrated in some exotic city somewhere in the world.
Haugesund, Norway, Oulu, Finland, and Umeå, Sweden, have festivals, as
does Trencianske Teplice in the Slovak Republic, India's
Thiruvananathapuram, Iran's Kish Island ("the Pearl of the Persian Gulf"),
the Australian beach resort of Noosa, and the Italian city of Udine, which
unexpectedly bills itself as "the world's largest showcase of popular East
Asian cinema." There are nearly sixty Jewish film festivals in existence
but only one QT event, in which direc ... read full excerpt from: Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made ebook
