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Article: No more dogs, please ; There's a reason why the Edinburgh Film Festival is changing date- it doesn't cut the mustard, fumes KALEEM AFTAB
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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The decision to move the Edinburgh International Film Festival
away from its traditional home in August during the omnipresent
Edinburgh Festival is a tacit admission that the film festival has
become a non-event. Even, dare I say it, a bit of a bore, as the
festival organisers have struggled to get innovative pictures or
bona fide stars to come to the Scottish capital. Of all the
festivals that take place in the city, the film festival has for
some years been the most dismal.
The official line is that moving to June will allow the festival
to be the "only show in town" and, says its artistic director Hannah
McGill, "give us breathing space to expand and create our own
distinct identity, ...