The 31st edition of Canada’s influential Hot Docs Film Festival, which gets underway Thursday, could very well be the last.
For the past month, the Toronto festival, one of North America’s largest dedicated to documentaries, has been roiled by staff and funding turmoil. On March 25, artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy and 10 of the fest’s programmers abruptly exited their posts. That was followed by Hot Docs president Marie Nelson issuing an “urgent appeal” for more funding. But the Canadian government declined to provide funding for the doc fest in the federal budget unveiled April 16. The budget added more $88 million in funding for the screen sector, including $17 million over three years for the larger Toronto International Film Festival.
The mass exodus of staff and lack of much-needed government funding has put the future of Hot Docs in serious jeopardy. Fest organizers indicated as much after the federal budget was unveiled.
For the past month, the Toronto festival, one of North America’s largest dedicated to documentaries, has been roiled by staff and funding turmoil. On March 25, artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy and 10 of the fest’s programmers abruptly exited their posts. That was followed by Hot Docs president Marie Nelson issuing an “urgent appeal” for more funding. But the Canadian government declined to provide funding for the doc fest in the federal budget unveiled April 16. The budget added more $88 million in funding for the screen sector, including $17 million over three years for the larger Toronto International Film Festival.
The mass exodus of staff and lack of much-needed government funding has put the future of Hot Docs in serious jeopardy. Fest organizers indicated as much after the federal budget was unveiled.
- 4/24/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Located 14 miles north of San Francisco with a population of just over 14,000, the community of Mill Valley has evolved into a West Coast epicenter for showcasing independent and international films. As the Mill Valley Film Festival prepares to celebrate its 45th year with screenings of films by Rian Johnson (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”), Darren Aronofsky (“The Whale”) and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, original founder and director Mark Fishkin attributes its pedigree for attracting top-tier talent to its unique combination of geographic and philosophical specificities.
“The Mill Valley Film Festival has the best of both worlds: the clout of an urban festival and the ambiance of the destination festival,” says Fishkin. “And this aspect of being professional but unpretentious is still very important to us.”
Fishkin conceived the festival, running Oct. 6-16 this year, precisely because he managed to be in the right place at the right time. A former...
“The Mill Valley Film Festival has the best of both worlds: the clout of an urban festival and the ambiance of the destination festival,” says Fishkin. “And this aspect of being professional but unpretentious is still very important to us.”
Fishkin conceived the festival, running Oct. 6-16 this year, precisely because he managed to be in the right place at the right time. A former...
- 10/6/2022
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival marks the much-anticipated return of movies, and audiences, to theaters, but the Northern California event founded in 1977 retains some lingering influences of the pandemic, with both in-person and online viewing options. With the Delta variant raging, the festival’s founder and director Mark Fishkin notes that the logistics for the fest’s hybrid-style return are even more challenging than before.
“This year everything has been changing so rapidly it has caused a lot of sleepless nights,” he says.
But the fest, which runs Oct. 7-17, also features a bevy of screenings and events that stand to make the Bay Area gathering one of its most hotly anticipated. Joe Wright’s “Cyrano” will bow opening night, with Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” closing the fest. Mike Mill’s “C’mon C’mon” is the centerpiece feature film. The fest will also spotlight Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino,...
“This year everything has been changing so rapidly it has caused a lot of sleepless nights,” he says.
But the fest, which runs Oct. 7-17, also features a bevy of screenings and events that stand to make the Bay Area gathering one of its most hotly anticipated. Joe Wright’s “Cyrano” will bow opening night, with Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” closing the fest. Mike Mill’s “C’mon C’mon” is the centerpiece feature film. The fest will also spotlight Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino,...
- 10/7/2021
- by Stuart Miller
- Variety Film + TV
The 43rd iteration of the Mill Valley Film Festival may not look as it has in previous years due to Covid-19 with many of its sections navigating online, but that in no way detracts from what the fest, running Oct. 8-18, will and already has accomplished on the artistic front. One of Mill Valley’s most notable endeavors: 57% of films screening in the San Francisco Bay Area fest are directed by women, a number that goes above and beyond its intended goal of reaching the 50% mark by 2020.
“We are doing what we set out to do with the fest’s gender equity Mind the Gap initiative,” says Mark Fishkin, Mvff founder and executive director of the California Film Institute.
“When you look at the films screening this year, from ‘Herself,’ directed by Phyllida Lloyd, to ‘Nomadland,’ directed by Chloé Zhou, there is just some miraculous work being done by women.
“We are doing what we set out to do with the fest’s gender equity Mind the Gap initiative,” says Mark Fishkin, Mvff founder and executive director of the California Film Institute.
“When you look at the films screening this year, from ‘Herself,’ directed by Phyllida Lloyd, to ‘Nomadland,’ directed by Chloé Zhou, there is just some miraculous work being done by women.
- 10/10/2020
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Pattinson will compete in the lead actor category for “The Lighthouse,” Variety has learned exclusively. A24 will submit Pattinson in the lead actor category, with co-star Willem Dafoe in the supporting actor field.
“The Lighthouse,” which opens Oct. 18, has been earning praise on the festival circuit since premiering at Cannes in May, where writer-director Robert Eggers won an International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) Prize. Pattinson and Dafoe play two lighthouse keepers isolated on a small island who begin to grapple with their sanity.
If Dafoe were to be nominated, it would be his third consecutive nod after last year’s “At Eternity’s Gate” and 2017’s “The Florida Project.” He was also previously nominated for “Platoon” and “Shadow of the Vampire.”
While the film is very much a two-hander, Pattinson has more screen time and his character serves as the audience’s point of view. Though he has...
“The Lighthouse,” which opens Oct. 18, has been earning praise on the festival circuit since premiering at Cannes in May, where writer-director Robert Eggers won an International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) Prize. Pattinson and Dafoe play two lighthouse keepers isolated on a small island who begin to grapple with their sanity.
If Dafoe were to be nominated, it would be his third consecutive nod after last year’s “At Eternity’s Gate” and 2017’s “The Florida Project.” He was also previously nominated for “Platoon” and “Shadow of the Vampire.”
While the film is very much a two-hander, Pattinson has more screen time and his character serves as the audience’s point of view. Though he has...
- 10/7/2019
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
When he founded the California Film Institute in 1977, Mark Fishkin didn’t know much about running a film festival. Not many people did — there were few major film festivals in the United States at the time, and it would be decades before there emerged anything like today’s bustling international festival circuit. Fishkin had recently moved to California from the small town of Ouray, Colo., about an hour’s drive to Telluride the long way around Mt. Sneffels. He’d visited once or twice while the festival was on, by chance, and had seen how they did things out there and it inspired him, when he founded a festival of his own, to do things a little differently.
The first Mill Valley Film Festival took place Aug. 11-13, 1978, and was intended, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from that summer, to “honor successful filmmakers living or working out of Marin County,...
The first Mill Valley Film Festival took place Aug. 11-13, 1978, and was intended, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from that summer, to “honor successful filmmakers living or working out of Marin County,...
- 10/3/2019
- by Calum Marsh
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has announced its 10 Screenwriters to Watch for 2019, an honor the publication has bestowed for over a decade.
This year’s honorees will be feted in the October 8th issue of Variety as well as at a reception at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 13th.
“For decades, the Mill Valley Film Festival has been an essential stop on both the festival circuit and during awards season for key taste-maker screenings” said Steven Gaydos, executive vice president of content at Variety. “We are excited to begin this new partnership with the festival to showcase this year’s group of groundbreaking screenwriters to the discerning audience in Northern California.”
“We are honored to host Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival. Screenwriters provide an essential part of the filmmaking process,” said Mill Valley Film Festival founder and director, Mark Fishkin. “Their contributions cannot be overemphasized,...
This year’s honorees will be feted in the October 8th issue of Variety as well as at a reception at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 13th.
“For decades, the Mill Valley Film Festival has been an essential stop on both the festival circuit and during awards season for key taste-maker screenings” said Steven Gaydos, executive vice president of content at Variety. “We are excited to begin this new partnership with the festival to showcase this year’s group of groundbreaking screenwriters to the discerning audience in Northern California.”
“We are honored to host Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival. Screenwriters provide an essential part of the filmmaking process,” said Mill Valley Film Festival founder and director, Mark Fishkin. “Their contributions cannot be overemphasized,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
New cinema is, as always, the centerpiece of the Mill Valley Film Festival, which celebrates its 41st iteration Oct. 4-14 in and around the Marin County city. This year’s lineup of narrative and documentary films includes awards-season hopefuls, select arthouse pics and classic titles from years past.
Opening the fest are two powerhouse dramas — Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book,” with Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, and Matthew Heineman’s “A Private War,” with Rosamund Pike — both screening Oct. 4, with Farrelly, Ali, Pike and Heineman in attendance. On Oct. 8, Alfonso Cuaron will appear at the fest to screen his latest work, “Roma,” fresh from its Golden Lion win at Venice.
But there’s another presence at Mvff that goes beyond fresh new features: political and social conscience. An awareness of past and present issues has always been in the fabric of filmmaking, but with change occurring almost daily in regard to gender,...
Opening the fest are two powerhouse dramas — Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book,” with Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, and Matthew Heineman’s “A Private War,” with Rosamund Pike — both screening Oct. 4, with Farrelly, Ali, Pike and Heineman in attendance. On Oct. 8, Alfonso Cuaron will appear at the fest to screen his latest work, “Roma,” fresh from its Golden Lion win at Venice.
But there’s another presence at Mvff that goes beyond fresh new features: political and social conscience. An awareness of past and present issues has always been in the fabric of filmmaking, but with change occurring almost daily in regard to gender,...
- 10/5/2018
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Film Festival Alliance (Ffa) announced today it has named Lela Meadow-Conner as the organization’s Executive Director; She has served as Acting Executive Director since April 2017.Ffa and the film festival industry have grown rapidly over the past several years. We’re thrilled to have Lela fill this important role at a critical time for the Alliance as we evolve from a grassroots movement into an institution that can support festival professionals and shape the future of our industry. Lela has the right mix of vision and experience to lead the organization into the new phase and I’m excited to work with her as we build, grow, and adapt
said Ffa Board President Dan Brawley, Chief Instigating Officer of Cucalorus Festival.
Meadow-Conner comes to Film Festival Alliance with over 15 years of experience in the film festival industry. A founder of the Tallgrass Film Festival, she filled several roles within...
said Ffa Board President Dan Brawley, Chief Instigating Officer of Cucalorus Festival.
Meadow-Conner comes to Film Festival Alliance with over 15 years of experience in the film festival industry. A founder of the Tallgrass Film Festival, she filled several roles within...
- 7/22/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Filmmaker/Curator Katy Kavanaugh cites kids’ participation in international film festivals as a boon for child developmentby Jared FeldschreiberFilmmaker/curator Katy Kavanaugh, shown here, leading a “Design Thinking” workshop. On her website, she cites inventor R. Buckminster Fuller’s quote: “And then you will go out and do what no one has told you to do.”
Empathy remains at the heart of good storytelling, especially as it correlates to films designed for kids. In a “post truth” age of obfuscating facts and deceitful falsehoods seeping their way into public discourse, an idealist may often be discouraged that morality and compassion for “the other” do not reap tangible rewards. But one can find solace that there remain individual artists who — idealistic as they may be — have proven that kids who watch international films and attend international film festivals enable their capacity for empathy as they watch films in such a setting.
Empathy remains at the heart of good storytelling, especially as it correlates to films designed for kids. In a “post truth” age of obfuscating facts and deceitful falsehoods seeping their way into public discourse, an idealist may often be discouraged that morality and compassion for “the other” do not reap tangible rewards. But one can find solace that there remain individual artists who — idealistic as they may be — have proven that kids who watch international films and attend international film festivals enable their capacity for empathy as they watch films in such a setting.
- 7/16/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
For CinemaCon’s annual gathering of theater owners in Las Vegas, the Motion Picture Assn. of America released a new report showing a 6% drop in theatrical attendance in the U.S. and Canada in 2017, representing a 22-year low.
Though the breakout success of “Black Panther” is likely to quiet some worries about superhero fatigue, distributors and exhibitors working the mid-range and low-budget end of the spectrum are facing some doubts about the viability of their product in the age of tentpoles and streaming media.
The situation isn’t dire. A largely tepid year for specialty releases was offset by a strong awards-season showing for a handful of films. The breakouts of 2017 included “The Shape of Water” ($63.5 million), “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” ($54.2 million), “Lady Bird” ($48.9 million), “The Big Sick” ($42.8 million) and “Wind River” ($33.8 million).
“It’s definitely a tough time,” says Jeff Bock, box office analyst for the tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
Though the breakout success of “Black Panther” is likely to quiet some worries about superhero fatigue, distributors and exhibitors working the mid-range and low-budget end of the spectrum are facing some doubts about the viability of their product in the age of tentpoles and streaming media.
The situation isn’t dire. A largely tepid year for specialty releases was offset by a strong awards-season showing for a handful of films. The breakouts of 2017 included “The Shape of Water” ($63.5 million), “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” ($54.2 million), “Lady Bird” ($48.9 million), “The Big Sick” ($42.8 million) and “Wind River” ($33.8 million).
“It’s definitely a tough time,” says Jeff Bock, box office analyst for the tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
- 4/23/2018
- by Akiva Gottlieb
- Variety Film + TV
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
- 6/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Read More: Mill Valley Film Festival Announces Full Lineup, Including 'Suffragette,' 'Carol' and 'Macbeth' The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff) concluded October 18 with the California premiere of "Suffragette," which capped 11 days of screenings with internationally acclaimed filmmakers and special guests. "This was an amazing 11 days for film lovers, music enthusiasts, and members of the industry," said Mark Fishkin, Founder/Director of the Mill Valley Film Festival. "We are so proud to be a festival that filmmakers—both local and international—return to year after year to present their films to our sophisticated and influential Bay Area audiences, who love to see and nurture these new works." The Mvff Audience Awards represent the people’s choice favorites at this year’s festival. Here are the winners of the various Audience Award categories. Overall Audience Favorite 2015 "Room" Dir. Lenny Abrahamson Audience...
- 10/20/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
This is the first of a series of blogs to be written during the Mill Valley Film Festival (October 3-13) which we are honored to be posting.
Founded in 1978 by California Film Institute Director Mark Fishkin, the Festival is well known for the quality of its programming. It has established an impressive track record for launching new films and new filmmakers, and has earned a reputation as a filmmakers’ festival by offering a high-profile, prestigious, noncompetitive environment for celebrating the best in independent and world cinema.
Each year, the 11-day Festival sells over 40,000 tickets and welcomes more than 200 filmmakers from around the world. Festival sections include: World Cinema; U.S. Cinema; Valley of the Docs; Children’s FilmFest; 5@5, a daily shorts program; and Active Cinema, our activist films initiative. Gala celebrations, tributes to actors and filmmakers, workshops, panels and seminars, as well as opportunities to mingle with filmmakers in the spectacular setting of the San Francisco Bay Area are just a few of the reasons Screen International named Mill Valley one of its top 10 U.S. film festivals.
The Festival is also an important industry resource, both for its emphasis on films that have not yet secured U.S. distribution and for fall launches and northern California Academy Award® campaigns. The Bay Area continues to be a significant market for independent and international film, and Mvff consistently provides a forum for introducing new films to West Coast audiences.
Presented by the California Film Institute, the 36th Festival will take place at the CinéArts@Sequoia and 142 Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley), Century Cinema (Corte Madera) and the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center (San Rafael). The non-profit California Film Institute celebrates and promotes film as art and education through the presentation of the Mill Valley Film Festival and year-round exhibitions at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, and by building the next generation of filmmakers and audiences through Cfi Education, which reaches over 6,500 under-served students in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Smith Rafael Film Center annually serves approximately 150,000 attendees.
Here is the firsts installment by Jennie-Marie Adler, Membership Manger of the California Film Institute:
Part of my job as the Membership Manager of the Mill Valley Film Festival is to stop into either of our filmmaker lounges and talk to members. The converted art gallery space in Mill Valley is filled with oversized leather arm chairs, chocolate, fresh fruit (which is a rare thing at a festival), and plenty of wine (we are in Marin after all). It’s a tough job but someone has got to do it!
I was talking to a member today over my glass of wine and she commented that the reason why she loved the Mill Valley Film Festival so much is because she could submerge herself into so many different cultures, all in a day. She described her early morning trip to a Bolivian circus on a thrilling rescue mission in “The Lion Ark” and then off to France to watch two plucky young girls find friendship and shenanigans in “The Dandelions.”
It’s true. A film festival is not like watching a movie on your couch with a bowl full of microwave popcorn or even a trip to the multiplex. It’s an experience. Days filled with subtitles, lines, ballots, volunteers in matching t-shirts and the most wonderful of all: Q&As. With a 11-day festival, my metaphorical passport will be full.
Founded in 1978 by California Film Institute Director Mark Fishkin, the Festival is well known for the quality of its programming. It has established an impressive track record for launching new films and new filmmakers, and has earned a reputation as a filmmakers’ festival by offering a high-profile, prestigious, noncompetitive environment for celebrating the best in independent and world cinema.
Each year, the 11-day Festival sells over 40,000 tickets and welcomes more than 200 filmmakers from around the world. Festival sections include: World Cinema; U.S. Cinema; Valley of the Docs; Children’s FilmFest; 5@5, a daily shorts program; and Active Cinema, our activist films initiative. Gala celebrations, tributes to actors and filmmakers, workshops, panels and seminars, as well as opportunities to mingle with filmmakers in the spectacular setting of the San Francisco Bay Area are just a few of the reasons Screen International named Mill Valley one of its top 10 U.S. film festivals.
The Festival is also an important industry resource, both for its emphasis on films that have not yet secured U.S. distribution and for fall launches and northern California Academy Award® campaigns. The Bay Area continues to be a significant market for independent and international film, and Mvff consistently provides a forum for introducing new films to West Coast audiences.
Presented by the California Film Institute, the 36th Festival will take place at the CinéArts@Sequoia and 142 Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley), Century Cinema (Corte Madera) and the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center (San Rafael). The non-profit California Film Institute celebrates and promotes film as art and education through the presentation of the Mill Valley Film Festival and year-round exhibitions at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, and by building the next generation of filmmakers and audiences through Cfi Education, which reaches over 6,500 under-served students in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Smith Rafael Film Center annually serves approximately 150,000 attendees.
Here is the firsts installment by Jennie-Marie Adler, Membership Manger of the California Film Institute:
Part of my job as the Membership Manager of the Mill Valley Film Festival is to stop into either of our filmmaker lounges and talk to members. The converted art gallery space in Mill Valley is filled with oversized leather arm chairs, chocolate, fresh fruit (which is a rare thing at a festival), and plenty of wine (we are in Marin after all). It’s a tough job but someone has got to do it!
I was talking to a member today over my glass of wine and she commented that the reason why she loved the Mill Valley Film Festival so much is because she could submerge herself into so many different cultures, all in a day. She described her early morning trip to a Bolivian circus on a thrilling rescue mission in “The Lion Ark” and then off to France to watch two plucky young girls find friendship and shenanigans in “The Dandelions.”
It’s true. A film festival is not like watching a movie on your couch with a bowl full of microwave popcorn or even a trip to the multiplex. It’s an experience. Days filled with subtitles, lines, ballots, volunteers in matching t-shirts and the most wonderful of all: Q&As. With a 11-day festival, my metaphorical passport will be full.
- 10/15/2013
- by Jennie-Marie Adler
- Sydney's Buzz
Welcome to Cannes!! Home of the world's greatest cinema!! high art! culture! France!!
First a shot from the Cannes Market opening night party - Karen and Col Needham of IMDb, Sydney Sydney J. Levine of Film Finders, IndieWire and SydneysBuzz.com and Mark Fishkin of Mill Valley Film Festival and California Film Institute. Great night seeing old friends and catching up!!!
And then there's the Marche / Market here where we stay ....on a rainy Saturday, Maestro Lloyd Kaufman introduces Troma's masterpiece of schlock 'Return to Nuke 'Em High' featuring various monsters and 2 really cute Lesbian Zombies who got married (by Lloyd) for the press just now.
More photos to come soon!
First a shot from the Cannes Market opening night party - Karen and Col Needham of IMDb, Sydney Sydney J. Levine of Film Finders, IndieWire and SydneysBuzz.com and Mark Fishkin of Mill Valley Film Festival and California Film Institute. Great night seeing old friends and catching up!!!
And then there's the Marche / Market here where we stay ....on a rainy Saturday, Maestro Lloyd Kaufman introduces Troma's masterpiece of schlock 'Return to Nuke 'Em High' featuring various monsters and 2 really cute Lesbian Zombies who got married (by Lloyd) for the press just now.
More photos to come soon!
- 5/20/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his preview of the upcoming Mill Valley Film Festival line-up to the Twitch readership.]
At the press conference announcing the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival (Mfff) line-up, Founder/Executive Director Mark Fishkin referred to a "programming sensibility" that has evolved at Mvff over the course of three decades. That sensibility has become an extremely successful formula--one that inspired indieWIRE to name it one of the world's 50 leading film festivals. There's little arguing with success, and as evidenced by the 143 films and programs in this year's selection, MVFF33 will be adhering to the tried and true.
At the press conference announcing the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival (Mfff) line-up, Founder/Executive Director Mark Fishkin referred to a "programming sensibility" that has evolved at Mvff over the course of three decades. That sensibility has become an extremely successful formula--one that inspired indieWIRE to name it one of the world's 50 leading film festivals. There's little arguing with success, and as evidenced by the 143 films and programs in this year's selection, MVFF33 will be adhering to the tried and true.
- 9/29/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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