It is going to be tough acting like things have gone back to normal, and operating an in-person festival, complete with foreign guests. But given plentiful resources and a can-do spirit, the Hainan…
It is going to be tough acting like things have gone back to normal, and operating an in-person festival, complete with foreign guests. But given plentiful resources and a can-do spirit, theThe festival, set to run Dec. 5-12, won’t be the first Chinese festival to operate in front of live audiences. The delayed editions of the Shanghai and Beijing festivals managed it in restricted fashion, and October’s Pingyao festival expects to as well.
The first two editions of the festival were a steep learning curve. The post-coronavirus period may now provide a less pressurized period to straighten out the kinks. Garcia expects that audiences will be largely local, or visiting from elsewhere within China, which gives him a chance to sidestep the pressure to secure premieres. Instead he can select titles that might have been screened in Berlin, Cannes, Venice or Toronto, but which have not yet made their way into Chinese theaters.
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