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San Diego Film Festival to Host Gus Van Sant Retrospective
Scott in regards to your statement that -- "In it's former incarnation, the SDFF was not much more than a collection of film festival rejects spooled together to form the basis of an excuse to throw post-show galas." That statement is completely baseless and in my OPINION - you're an idiot for even stating it. It shows how little you actually know about festivals. As the former programming director of the San Diego Film Fest for 10 years, it's a fact that each year myself and the programming team screened over a thousand film entries, solicited the top festival winners (Sundance, LA, Tribeca & Palm Springs), and met with up and coming filmmakers - all to get the best films we could. I know, I was there, you weren't. You were busy trying to be a critic. I can tell you that our programming was as good, or better than a number of other festivals in our category. I know because I attended many of those festivals over the years and would often encounter the same films thats were on the festival circuit. That's a fact. And the fact the festival threw great parties & galas was irrelevant to the film line-up. Nothing was better than sharing a drink and story with the filmmakers and actors at those parties. As a matter of, I believe the new SD Film Fest oragnization is planning to have some special parties as well. But maybe you're just not a "party person". Lately, you've taken several cheap stabs at the festival in the media. I'm not sure why, but I could guess...— June 14, 2012 1:56 p.m.