Palm Springs Festival Becomes a Foreign Affair

By Jack January 12, 2000 10:53 AM

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As it matures, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which opens on Thursday, is focusing on its "international" designation, this year presenting 180 films from more than 40 countries.?Festival programmer Jennifer Stark told today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times: "What has happened over the years is that Sundance has become absolutely enormous and known for supporting American independent films.?So every American filmmaker wants to be in Sundance.?There is no begrudging the fact, but it limits our accessibility to those films because they want premieres.?In the meantime, we thought what would really work well here? We realized it was international film." Source: Studio Briefing

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