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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Film festivals should also show commercial films along with parallel cinema. This is the only way that it could reach out to more people.
We need to work on creating a more inclusive music experience. I'm really so frustrated with going to festivals and there not being any closed captioning or interpreters.
At festivals, you can go a lot bigger than a club and have massive euphoric moments because there are so many people there all feeling the same thing.
I definitely enjoy doing big festivals and big shows.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
I love U.K. festivals because people go to watch as many bands as possible. They aren't just there to see their favourites; they'll be there all day long.
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.
Cannes is one of the biggest film festivals across the globe, and getting your film selected for a screening is quite a big achievement.
I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.
I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.
You can do a small club show and the energy is so contained. Then you play these big festivals, and have 50,000 people waving their hands in the air with you.
When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.
Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.
As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.
Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
'Kaaka Muttai' has gone places. It's a great feeling. There is respect from family and friends. The film has travelled to international festivals, and I was able to meet big directors.
Quality cinema is not changing anything, everything is the same. The artistes and other people involved in these films get some recognition at international film festivals and award shows only.
My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.
We seek festivals for two reasons - either to create buzz because it is a small film or to find unexplored markets outside India.
A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future
The Festival of Books is indeed a well-oiled machine, one which leaves most of the other literary festivals in America, including vaunted Brooklyn's, in the dust.
Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.
Some independent Indian films do so well at these festivals in Europe and in the United States that when they come back, India just cannot ignore them.
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
'Newton' is a very Indian film but resonates with people all across. And that's the reason it got great response at the film festivals.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.
American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.
It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.
You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.
As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.
Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it's always good to try the international market because it doesn't have the same kind of baggage.
When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.
There are about 250 curators in the world who keep their eyes open to choose films from around the globe for festivals. I am one of them.
I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.
Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.
I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.
My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.
I love sweets, but don't have them every day. I have them maybe once a week or during social functions or festivals.
The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.
Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.
I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.
I've been to several international film festivals, including those in Locarno, Switzerland; Dubai; Russia; Berlin; Cannes; Bangkok; and Hong Kong.
Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.
