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Comments

Is the Venice Film Festival still considered more of an art-film venue than Cannes?
And have the initiatives with which you conclude (wider audiences, non-competitive structure) been successful — has attendance been increasing?

Preston Thayer
Director,
New Mexico State University Art Galleries

In terms of an art-film venue I think that it historically has been based around film as an art form because of its associations with the Biennale, however today it seems to be just as commercially driven as Cannes. And while artistically driven films are still strongly supported within the Venice community, large commercial featured films which make money and draw crowds have become a dominate feature of the Venice Film Festival in later years.
The initiatives made by organizers certainly have been successful in transforming the image of the Festival- crowds and media coverage is the highest it has ever been and an additional building is underway which will be located just outside of the Palazzo del Cinema. So there is no doubt that attendance is up and its damaging history is quickly fading into the background.

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