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Cutting down on international film festivalsPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Friday, April 29, 2005 at 5:43 PM
A report from Variety.com, published last week: China's Ministry of Propaganda, which controls the film industry through the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft), has decreed that the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival, China's premiere international fest, will become a "local" event instead of internationally driven. Same will happen to the Changchun fest. No one took any of those film festivals seriously anyway, so this is not much of a loss. Thanks to Jamie Lai for the article. |
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Comments on Cutting down on international film festivals
It's true. The SIFF is a bastion of incompetence. At the magazine where I work, we have tried two years in a row to get the organizers to give us an interview (speaking with them up to two months in advance). I spoke to the director Yu Baiming in person a few months ago (in Chinese) and he basically wouldn't give me the time of day. This year they refused to let us send a foreign journalist saying they would only give clearance for one of our Chinese reporters as it was a government-run festival and they wanted to control the festivals image. Usually they don't even nail down their shitty lineup until the beginning of June. I am glad they downgraded it to a local festival because they were kidding themselves in pretending it was anything more than a government-run hack-job. Maybe they will finally get some good local offerings instead of the Hollywood detritus that theyve shown these past 8 fests.