The Circuit

Why is the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival still in business?  No festival has a worse reputation that I know of.  How can they get away with charging 300 to 400 bucks per entry fee? Are there that many filmmakers out there desperate to have a New York screening? Apparently so – 273 of them, according to the fest.  Recently, The Reeler slammed it, adding to the mountain of negative press from The Village Voice, indieWIRE, and Filmmaker Mag. It all says the same thing, every year.  And they must know it’s coming.  One journalist I know of was threatened if his coverage wasn’t rosy.  And it wasn’t.

Has anyone out there had experiences – good and bad – with the NYIIFVF?  (Mike Jones)