Fall prestige pics, maybe.
And the festival, which has been run by the nonprofit Film Independent since 2001, hopes to accomplish all this without directly competing with the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival, November's glitzy AFI Fest or the various fall prestige confabs about to pack the calendar.
Church discipline was relaxed, and church prestige fell in all parts of Europe.
The triumvir of the Italian transavantgardia (with Clemente and Cucchi) whose prestige fell first and farthest, in the mid-eighties, has soldiered on with the neo-expressionist charades that made his name and then, on second thought, made it mud.
Our nation fought a World War, sacrificing the lives of millions, in part to establish human rights norms that we have eroded in the past decade: from Nuremberg's principle that "just following orders" offers no defense to prosecution, we have fallen to conferring prestige, wealth, and power on those who "just write orders" that violate human rights.
And like the tiny country they lived and worked in, these painters experienced good fortune as well as bad – enjoying prestige, wealth and prosperity before falling into poverty.
After falling behind in recent years, it is now looking to regain the prestige it lost to England's Premier League and Spain's La Liga.
This is a land where the church's institutional prestige has fallen more vertiginously than almost anywhere else in the Western world, thanks mainly to a series of reports that have documented horrific suffering in church-backed schools and institutions, and to an ever clearer picture of scandalous cover-ups.
Theirs is a city, in Ozick's words, full of people who live on "pity, and therefore on gossip... who had lost three successive jobs, who was in danger of being fired, which agent's prestige had fallen, who could not get her second novel published, who was persona non grata at this or that magazine... who was being snubbed, who counted or did not count".
But more conventional prestige pictures fell flat.
