K.J. Yossman With public health laws, travel regulations and COVID variants rapidly changing every day, putting together this year’s Edinburgh Intl.
Film Festival has been no easy task. But with 2020’s edition of the festival having been cancelled due to the pandemic, the team behind the EIFF were determined to forge ahead despite lacking a creative director (incoming creative director Kristy Matheson starts next month) and without even knowing whether, when push came to shove, the event would be able to go ahead.Fortunately, the (celestial, if not Hollywood) stars aligned and the EIFF has opened this week to a hungry and responsive audience, with movie-goers enjoying the opening night gala screening of Nicolas Cage-starring “Pig” and.
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