Above: Erica and Richard at Walkabout Brewing CompanyDirector’s Desk By Richard HerskowitzArtistic DirectorThe “Double Feature” festival schedule has been finalized, and I can’t wait to unveil both programs—the April virtual and the Ju...
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The 20th Annual Festival Will Be a Double Feature!Director’s ReportFebruary 2021Richard HerskowitzLast year’s decision to move the spring festival to a virtual platform was made rapidly, with trepidation, and a sense of urgency. We had to find a ...
By Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director 2020 was a dramatic year for AIFF: we established our Film Center on Main Street, planned and then postponed our April 2020 festival, and successfully launched our first virtual festival in May and our vi...
By Richard Herskowitz, Artistic DirectorThe “Rising from the Ashes” award is our newest prize, to be given to a student filmmaker in our annual Launch competition whose work addresses the summer’s tragic fires and their aftermath. The award com...
By Richard Herskowitz, Artistic DirectorThe migration of Varsity World Film Weeks from the Varsity to the Virtual was a great success, reaching over 2,000 viewers, with survey respondents rating the films’ quality 4.2 out of 5, and the value for th...
Above: Outdoor screening at Walkabout BreweryLast year’s decision to move the spring festival to a virtual platform was made rapidly, and with a sense that we had no other choice. We had to find a way to showcase the extraordinary work of the filmm...
Director’s Desk: Co-Curating Migrating Bodies with the Schneider Museumby Richard HerskowitzA highlight of the physical AIFF2020 that was intended to, but did not happen in April would have been the annual media art exhibition that AIFF co-org...
Above: Tom Kalin, Marcus Hu, and B. Ruby Rich discuss 30/30 Vision: 30 Years of Strand ReleasingBY RICHARD HERSKOWITZ As I’m writing this, we have conducted over 20 Q&A’s with our AIFF2020 filmmakers, half the number we w...
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