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Sponsorship can be a rocky road

I noticed two new tweets in the last little while that made me start thinking about festival sponsorship and its ramifications. Firstly, the tweets, both from @TaliShapiro: Communiqué from #Cineffable [bottom left] http://bit.ly/nVIzUu #French festival accepts #Israeli grant, but takes … Continue reading

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celebrities, schmelebrities

A recent story about the resignation of Howard Feinstein, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s programmer, is worth a look, in my opinion. Obviously, it’s his side of the story (SFF’s response is here), and a bit of a long read it … Continue reading

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Festival management in a box

Film festival managment software. Intriguing idea. I suspect that mostly we festival organizers get by with a stuck-together tool kit involving emails, excel spreadsheets, word docs and probably a database. There’s still a lot of paper to stick in folders … Continue reading

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