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Director’s DeskBy Richard Herskowitz, Artistic DirectorIt’s wild how many feature films I’ve seen since the pandemic began, while attending and engorging myself on the selections of virtual film festivals. Just since June of 2021, I’ve seen o...
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Director’s DeskBy Richard Herskowitz, Artistic DirectorI came to Ashland in 2015 as Director of Programming, with 33 years of programming film societies and film festivals under my belt. I fell in love with the city and its film festival, beloved b...
Director’s DeskBy Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director It will be wonderful to be live again in late June. Our staff has been planning these outdoor events for the past nine months. We got a crash course in virtual festival exhibit...
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...
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...
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