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How (not) to organise a film festival on Samos
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the first Summer Island Movie Festival - Samos, July 2012 by Ruard Wallis de Vries (this is an extended version of an article published in the Dutch magazine Lychnari, March 2013 ) A warm Greek summer night on Samos. About a hundred people are seated together on an intimate square, between a school building, a nursery and the milky-white church of Agios Panteleimonas. After two failed attempts, the DVD of director Alex McCall appears to be working after all. Thank heavens for that - McCall himself has come over to Samos especially for this occasion, to show his documentary called The Boy David Story , for which he's won a BAFTA [1] award. The projector hums. The sound from the speakers is excellent. And the documentary comes out beautifully on the church wall. Yes, the church wall. Our festival couldn't have wished for a better, a Greeker movie screen than the side wall of the church dedicated to Saint Panteleimon. But then it happens. From afar, we se...
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