Curatorially speaking, the Miami Music Club partners up with institutions and brings in amazing people, and mixes them in with the emerging makers in town.
The world's most interesting emerging handset maker, Xiaomi, is run out of Beijing.
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Progressives might initially cheer such a turn of events, because those emerging king-makers happen to agree with them.
The incentives for Australia's best and brightest emerging film-makers to ship off overseas are, of course, greater opportunities and resources.
In Hollywood, short films are a necessary evil – crucial for assessing the potential of emerging film-makers, but near impossible to exploit for commercial gain.
Running for 18 days across a dozen venues, the festival celebrated the landmark anniversary by looking to both its own future and that of a host of emerging film-makers.
The decline over the years in box office market share of locally produced features (down from 23% in the 80s to less than 5% in recent years) has certainly played a factor in why our emerging film-makers tend to leave the country post-haste.
The Torino (Turin) festival which began in 1982 was recently taken over by Italian director Nanni Moretti Caro Diarioo, The Son's Room), and has become less cutting-edge but more of an all-encompassing celebration of world cinema with an emphasis on emerging film-makers.
The fact that so many of Australia's emerging film-makers leave the country in ways they didn't in the 1970s would provide the mother of all wake-up calls, were it not for the Australian film industry's remarkable ability to generate new talent.
