The 33rd Out on Film Festival, Sept. 24-Oct. 4, will be heavily featured in our Sept. 25 issue, but we wanted to fill you in on opening weekend now so you can plan ahead.
Although most of the festival will be virtual, that doesn’t mean there will be unlimited “seating.” Distributors show films in festivals to relatively small audiences to build anticipation for when they are released later in more lucrative formats.
One advantage of a virtual festival is the ability to bring in more special guests to interact with audiences. It takes a lot less time and money for an actor or filmmaker to sit in front of their computer for an hour than to fly to Atlanta from another city or country and spend a night or two in a hotel here to have that
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