And check out the Salzburg festival's Rihm feature, Kontinent Rihm, with 15 pieces played over three weeks: an amazingly in-depth composer-feature, in the middle of one of the most conservative festivals in the world.
Some of these filmmakers, armed with camcorders and Web sites, are pushing overtly political projects in the blogosphere and at conservative festivals, including last year's Liberty Film Festival in West Hollywood, at which Mr. Bannon's "In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed" won an award.
All this I learned while watching "Impact: The Passion of the Christ," a documentary by Tim Chey that made its debut in Dallas last month as part of American Film Renaissance, the nation's first conservative film festival.
March 7th: Amid a blandly conservative Vienna Festival at Carnegie Hall, the Talea Ensemble's rendition of Pierluigi Billone's 2001 ensemble piece "Mani.Long," under the auspices of the Austrian Cultural Forum, honored Vienna's high-modernist tradition with a magmatic flow of instrumental sound.
And as a new inductee into the rootless and roaming global elite of former political leaders, Cameron will already know that he has a choice between making a black-tie speech in Chicago for a six-figure sum and giving out the prizes at the annual Burford Conservative harvest festival.
He stopped me as I entered the one panel offered on the Middle East and asked if I'd noticed how conservative the festival had become.
But if "Cool It" is now threatening to complicate the picture with an alternative and perhaps more conservative viewpoint, the festival circuit should ultimately embrace films like it, Ms. Haj said.
The few conservatives at the festival privately complained that the panels were stacked with liberals and that issues dear to them, such as abortion, were neglected.
The conference, which is sponsored by the American Conservative Union, is the largest annual gathering of conservatives, a political festival intended to lay out battle themes.
They'd been so conservative about the whole festival.
