A festival is a complex creature that requires careful tending and nurturing. Each festival director brings their own vision, experience, intuition ambition and inspiration to the process of shaping it—each negotiates the politics, economics, and the social realities of the city where it takes place. Nine directors from four continents who have headed or are still at the head of festivals …
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A festival is a complex creature that requires careful tending and nurturing. Each festival director brings their own vision, experience, intuition ambition and inspiration to the process of shaping it—each negotiates the politics, economics, and the social realities of the city where it takes place. Nine directors from four continents who have headed or are still at the head of festivals share their thoughts; their dreams and dilemmas; the problems they have encountered, and how they succeeded or failed to solve them. And above all: how they established artistic landmarks in the times and environments that were their own.
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