Audiences Are Our Biggest Stakeholders, And We Can’t Leave Them Behind
The daunting prospect of capturing the attention and engagement of new audiences is not a recent development. For years, the Film Festival Alliance has held panel sessions like “What Millennials Want” and “Cultivating A Love of Cinema Culture in Young People,” but the pandemic, which has people affixed to their devices 24/7, has certainly heightened the urgency for film festivals, while also blowing the lid off an old model, exposing all of its cracks and forcing us to do the essential hard work of thinking differently. In a post-COVID-19 world, assuming a vaccine does become readily available late next year, […]