Top 2008 Film Festival Picks: March to June
If I had my druthers I’d take a year to just film fest. Not a difficult thing to do with a world-class festival running every month of the year. Here’s where you want to be from March to June.
March 7–15: Austin’s South By Southwest
The film component of SXSW has been growing every year and this year looks to be one of the film fest’s finest.
http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/date/2008-03-07.html
April 17–27: Toronto’s Hot Docs
Hot Docs has become one of North America’s premiere documentary film fests. Every year promises a who’s who of current docs and a state of the union for the industry as a whole.
May 14–25: Cannes, Festival de Cannes
Every year about 100 000 people cram into a 3 block radius by the sea and celebrate the full-out glamour and cheese of the International film scene. The festival for seeing and preening.
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php/en
June 16-21: Toronto, Reel Heart International Films Festival
4th year for this TO newbie that wants to get away form “niche” festival and cover a broad spectrum of films, genres, languages and all. Could be interesting to watch this fest grow.
