1. Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity, but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival? 2. Adam Brooks, who has been to Sundance in support of films that he wrote, is about to attend his first festival as a director. 3. After initial resistance, he won enough support to stage the first festival. 4. But these first festivals dedicated to sports were simple, elegant and celebrated life. 5. CineFestival was the first Latino film festival in the United States. 6. It was the first festival of its kind in America and remains the most famous. 7. Movies were almost secondary, although David Lean, Roberto Rossellini and Billy Wilder were all present at the first festival. 8. No word of a virtual-reality view of the first festival. 9. She also notes that this is the first festival in years with no Palestinian films. 10. That first festival was ostensibly in thanksgiving for the harvest. |