Professional Documents
Culture Documents
8-1-1966
Recommended Citation
Allison, Edmund, Behind the file festivals, Australian Left Review, 1(2), 1966, 21-25.
Available at:http://ro.uow.edu.au/alr/vol1/iss2/6
film festivals
Film festivals, says this
correspondent, have made
the public m ore aware of
the role of film s today.
JN recent years the num ber o f film festivals has increased and
few countries are without their annual tribute to today’s
most popular entertainment m edium . Despite the impact o f
television, the cinema is attracting larger audiences, and this
is reflected in the new festivals that m ushroom each year.