Do you how much I missed movies on the big screen, and also film festivals, after three months of the pandemic? I drove over an hour, to a destination in a state I don't live in, on a Tuesday night, to what's believed to be the world's first drive-in film festival.
Two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu announced he is restoring the first film of his "death trilogy", 'Amores Perros'," and will be screening it at the Morelia Film Festival.
'The Friend', which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, seems to be so moving that Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, Robert Plant, decided not only to licence the songs but give the producers a steep discount.
With the increasing debate between film traditionalists and streaming services, and with the recent news that Netflix has pulled their films from Cannes, it's time to delve into what's at the heart of the issue.
Just about every major national and regional film festival in the U.S. has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but, the Lighthouse International Film Festival will be the first to segue into a fully drive-in format.
YouTube is set to organize a free film festival that will also benefit the WHO Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund and feature content from many of the major international film festivals.
If there’s any highly anticipated annual occasion that's of the same caliber as the holiday season, it would undoubtedly be film festival season; celebrated not just by the media and entertainment industry but also by film fanatics across the globe.
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