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News & ArtsWednesday, June 8, 2011
SIFF / Media Today in Telling It Like It is: SIFF Edition
Posted by David Schmader on Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:04 PM
"Today" is used loosely—Kathleen Murphy's piece was published several weeks ago by the Queen Anne News. But it eloquently and passionately gets to the heart of the problem of SIFF branding itself as "America's biggest film fest!" "Every cultural event, no matter how valuable and deeply embedded in a community's history and tradition, can gain from the musings of a gadfly," writes Murphy. "This particular gadfly must wonder if SIFF knows that gigantism is a disease, not a virtue."
Read the whole thing here.
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