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...megaphone-clad, unflinching, liberal demonstrator stereotype was embraced by the “Lost Film Festival?? Monday night. The festival, organized by Scott Beibin and hosted by the Harvard Social Forum at their 45 Mt. Auburn headquarters, screened liberally-oriented short political films that ranged from raw riot footage to concise pop culture satires...
...random assemblage of work which Beibin chooses—sometimes on impulse during the disorganized festival??lacks the professional refinement of other genres, but he assumes the responsibility of spreading the filmmakers’ messages to new audiences...
...front of the room, under a hanging portrait of the god Shiva that Eck borrowed from the Fogg Museum, the students set up an altar to display silver figures of the three gods most associated with the festival??Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Durga—as well as candles, fresh flowers and plates of nuts...
...also notes the festival??s strong international radio presence, much of which has arisen from its relationship with Boston radio station WGBH. The station records BEMF performances and broadcasts them nationwide on National Public Radio, in addition to Britain’s BBC and Canada?...
Monsoon Wedding met with tremendous critical acclaim, winning a Golden Lion at the 2001 Venice Film Festival??making Nair the first woman to do so—as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It also saw commercial success, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the United States...