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Dan Zeitman's avatar

Wow, this is very comprehensive. Thank you. One thing that would be interesting to correlate is how much income is generated in the local economy for each of these Film Festival’s. I do believe that’s been previously stated as the strong proof point that public money has a good ROI. Love to see you pull those numbers into this report.

Randy Greenberg's avatar

This is cool information! Wish I’d have thought of it!

Hollywood Gadfly's avatar

This is utterly fascinating. Amazing work.

D.L. Holmes's avatar

Excellent breakdown on a topic that we didn't know we needed! It must've taken a substantial amount of time to dig through the details and organize them.

Georgy Molodtsov's avatar

I would say that the whole concept of festival independence stands on the position of the festival curator/director, whose sole reputation is built on the fact of not being influenced by anyone, including the festival owner. Governmental ownership provides the possibility of making the festival, but even in the most non-democratic cases nowadays the festival reputation is built on the decisions of the curators, not owners. Every time there is an influence to the programming decision – there is a scandal. So I'm not sure it is a good angle to evaluate the festivals on.