Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, president of the competition jury at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, talked about the significance of ‘A-list’ ratings for film festivals at the jury press conference today.
Tokyo has recently had its status as an A-list festival reaffirmed by the Fédération Internationale des Associations des Producteurs de Films (FIAPF), a Brussels-based global organization that rates film festivals. But the practice of rating festivals, and the process and criteria for rating them, has proved controversial over the years.
In March this year, FIAPF overhauled its festival accreditation system for the first time since
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