The Sands International Film Festival opened Friday evening, marking a new milestone for the Scottish event: its fifth year in operations.
“What nobody tells you at the start of new things is just how fragile beginnings can be,” Festival Director Ania Trzebiatowska said in her opening speech on Friday.
“Half of new ventures don’t make it to five years. I won’t pretend that it’s always been easy. But something extraordinary would happen every year at this festival, whether it was a student curator having their first moment on stage, introducing a film, or the truly magical afternoon that we had with Alan Silvestri a few years back.”
Trzebiatowska continued: “Something would happen that would make everything worth our while, and meant this town actually really wanted this festival, and that we should continue to put it on. So here we are.”
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