All of this activity comes as the institute's most high-profile component, the Sundance Film Festival, faces increased competition.
Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island festival faced outrage in 2002 when it was announced that Forestry Tasmania would be a sponsor in 2003.
IT isn't often that the director of an international film festival faces a possible prison sentence simply for showing a movie.
Every festival faces logistical hurdles, and the problems at Toronto this year were unusual for one that has, in my 20 or so years of attending, been generally efficient and reliably friendly (what some just may call Canadian).
The Cannes Film Festival faces fresh accusations of discrimination for turning away women from the red carpet for not wearing high heels after a film producer with an amputated foot said she was told off for wearing flat shoes.
The red carpet at the Cannes film festival is an elysium of old-fashioned glitz and glamour, but the festival faced controversy on Tuesday after it emerged that it takes the odd bout of tyrannical fashion policing to keep it that way.
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And fans at T in the Park, Scotland's biggest music festival, faced muddy conditions as rain lashed the site at Balado near Kinross.
Of course, this festival face-off isn't just about mysteries vs electric daisies or the aesthetics of green grass vs parking lot macadam or even who has the biggest headliners.
The two-day festival faced an uncertain future in 2015, after two fans died of drug overdoses.
The festival faces several obstacles, including a supposed Native American curse, a missing miniature horse and a scandal-hungry media.
