We Are One: How the world's film festivals came together

We Are One: How the world's film festivals came together

By Steven McIntosh

DreamWorks' animation Bilby is among the short films at the We Are One festival / ANNECY

A foreign language film about the social divide in South Korea wouldn't normally scream box office hit.

But after Bong Joon-ho's film Parasite won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May, it set it on a path to ultimately winning the best picture Oscar nine months later.

And that's the thing about film festivals - they may be industry events largely attended by critics, journalists and filmmakers, but their influence can be huge.

The buzz a movie generates at Sundance, Toronto or Venice can determine whether a distributor picks it up for a wider public release - and put it firmly on the radar of awards season.

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