Despite the Pandemic’s Challenges, Baltic Film Festivals Show Their Resilience

variety.com:

Christopher Vourlias If the pandemic year has proven anything about the global film community, it’s been the industry’s ability to adapt on the fly—even in the face of an unprecedented crisis for an industry that considers travel and face-to-face networking as essential to its basic function as post-production and P&A.But as industry professionals around the globe dust off their passports and get their noses swabbed, the busy summer season ahead is a reminder that festival premieres and in-person industry events still offer a time-tested way to maintain old relationships and discover new talents.Nowhere is that more evident than on a continent whose open borders have helped make such communal cultural events a hallowed institution. “Film.