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...churlish to suggest its glory days are over. Its chairman, Bill Gates, even reclaimed his title as the world's richest man, after a widely published story claiming that the founder of Ikea had replaced him turned out to be so many Swedish meatballs. And Gates' baby, based in Redmond, Wash., is still by far the largest software maker in the world, with a healthy $56 billion in the bank and revenue conservatively expected to rise 5% next year, to about $38 billion. It has buried the hatchet with Sun Microsystems and AOL with billions of dollars in legal settlements...
...Part of our aim certainly is to put Boston on the map in terms of film. Hopefully we can get more recognition of what’s happening here, and get more film production done in the city,” says Jason Redmond, executive director of the Independent Film Society of Boston, which is hosting this weekend’s festival. “If we can create an organization like we want, and make a name for Boston through a series of relationships with other area arts institutes then we feel that it will benefit the Boston arts...
According to Redmond, the IFF “fills a void. There were other film festivals in Boston, but they were mostly niche festivals: filmmakers only from New England, or only Jewish filmmakers, whatever it was. We felt there was no festival showing really high quality independent films—films from around the world, in Boston, and we wanted to address that...
...Puppeteer will be getting its own screening during the festival, something that is not common for shorts, especially documentary shorts. “We want to do what we can to help Boston area filmmakers,” says Redmond. “The Puppeteer is a good example of a film that Boston filmgoers might not see in theatres...
While the directors of the IFF would like to see the festival grow and begin to incorporate other artistic media, Redmond believes it should always stay true to its cinematic roots. “South by Southwest is a good example, even though it was not started as a film festival,” says Redmond. “They have a good sense of reality, balance, in that they attract celebrities but also feature great independent films. We would like to incorporate artists of all types, as well...