Festival Leaders Confront Growing Political Pressure at Lumiere Summit: ‘We Don’t Judge Artists by Their Passport’
Festival directors from around the world gathered at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, for a panel on Monday addressing mounting political pressure on their events. Séries Mania's Laurence Herszberg led calls for programming independence, insisting that artists should be judged by their work rather than their nationality, while other leaders echoed concerns that festivals…
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