At the height of the uproar and amid the growing sense of crisis which surrounded the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2011 - with its tepid stripped-down programme, its sense of drift, and general gloom over its future - I had an interesting conversation with Faith Liddell, the head of Festivals Edinburgh, the umbrella body for the 12 major festivals in the capital.
At the height of the uproar and amid the growing sense of crisis which surrounded the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2011 - with its tepid stripped-down programme, its sense of drift, and general gloom over its future - I had an interesting conversation with Faith Liddell, the head of Festivals Edinburgh, the umbrella body for the 12 major festivals in the capital.
A former director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival herself, she was obviously concerned about the fortunes of the film festival, which seemed at that point to be in the process of sinking. She said that just as one bad festival is often portrayed as a disaster, it only takes one good one to set it back on its feet, the past (almost) forgotten. Well, she seems to be right.
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State of the Arts: Film festival for Last, and an August return too?
At the height of the uproar and amid the growing sense of crisis which surrounded the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2011 - with its tepid stripped-down programme, its sense of drift, and general gloom over its future - I had an interesting conversation with Faith Liddell, the head of Festivals Edinburgh, the umbrella body for the 12 major festivals in the capital.
A former director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival herself, she was obviously concerned about the fortunes of the film festival, which seemed at that point to be in the process of sinking. She said that just as one bad festival is often portrayed as a disaster, it only takes one good one to set it back on its feet, the past (almost) forgotten. Well, she seems to be right.
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