Since my first visit, the Festival de Cannes welcomes the World Cinema Foundation created in Cannes in 2007 by Martin Scorsese along with other filmmakers, for a selection of restoration films as part of our collective cinema history. CNC hosts an annual lunch for Cinematheques and Archives at the Plage des Palmes located on the peninsula jutting past the palais and along the Boulevard de la Croisette is a gorgeous place for hosted events when...
This was not my first Sundance and not by any means my last. I am fortunate to have been to a Sundance Film Festival a long time ago during one of my ski trips. The champagne powder and mountains always bring a smile and while I didn’t get a chance to ski this time around, I know when I come back it will be my total focus. Here’s my take on visiting the Ghosts of Sundance Past, Present and Future. Sundance Past I was granted accreditation...
My first Tribeca Film Festival was in 2006, the fifth year and normally I allot a film festival this amount of time to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. There were already over a thousand submissions and emphasis was placed on Hollywood style premieres, celebs and red carpets. I hated being corralled in with the jostling elbows along that heinous red carpet because that's not what I was about as a writer and podcast producer. The...