Bernie,I miss those kinds of pre-screening meetings! Those conversations made the process something I looked forward to.And, for myself, I can say that many of the films that have stuck with me over the years are films that were not screened by the festival for which they were being pre-screened.I
It's 1997 and I'm sitting in a pre-screening meeting with 8 or 9 people at
the Irondequoit High School. We have met to decide on the works to be
screened at the Rochester International Film Festival. Each of us has a
stack of evaluation forms on which we complete rankings for each work on
several
