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Confessions of a film festival judge

This week's Washington City Paper has an article in which a judge of the DC Shorts film festival tells us about his experience. Here is the first paragraph from the article:

"When I tell people I judged films for this year’s DC Shorts Film Festival, their first reaction is, “Cool!” Their second reaction is more circumspect. I don’t own a television. Or any movies. Why was I qualified to judge?"

Read the rest here. Lots of inside-film-festival entertainment for those who may be into that kinda thing.

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