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Article: Indie org splits glitz: Gala moves away from Manhattan to New York's 'creative hotbed'.(EAST COAST: NEW KUDO GROUND)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 27, 2007
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After 16 years in Manhattan, the Gotham Awards have a new home in New York's outer borough, at Steiner Studios, the Brooklyn-based backlot.
If the fringe locale is more suited to the Independent Feature Project's edgy spirit, this year's fund-raiser for the org also garnered more extensive sponsorships, city government coordination and wider promotional activities. "This is the year we grew up," says IFP's executive director Michelle Byrd.
Now taking" place on a 27,000-square-foot soundstage--recently home to the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" and Michael Haneke's "Funny Games"--the show switched to the new dig's because the former locale, Chelsea ...