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MEET YOUR EDITOR Bruno Chatelin - Check some of his interviews. Board Member of many filmfestivals and regular partner of a few key film events such as Cannes Market, AFM, Venice Production Bridge, Tallinn Industry and Festival...Check our recent partners. The news in French I English This content and related intellectual property cannot be reproduced without prior consent. Karl Spoerri (Zurich Fest Artistic Director) comments his festival and the Polanski hiatusI had the opportunity to interview Karl Spoerri Artistic Director of Zurich Film Festival a few days before the festival was over. Polanski's arrest suddenly put the festival in the spotlight. It clearly was wrong unwanted publicity...but still publicity.
This being said, my first question to Karl
BC: How did the audience react to Terry Gilliam presentation of Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus?
BC: How did you react when learning about Roman Polanski's arrest at the airport?
I found out through his first call out of jail. We had a lot of work to do over night to organize everything for him, appoint his lawyers in Switzerland. The French ambassador confirmed to me he was fine...
RS: This is good to hear! BC: Do you think that the shocked reactions from the artistic community in Europe demanding his release are helping Roman Polanski?
RS: Well first I am just the man who tried to organize homage? Like I said I was shocked, I can also very well understand that the reaction from the public is different from the artistic opinion.
BC: I must confess I do too, when hearing this and probably because I know Roman Polanski a little and respect him a lot I was quick at commenting on our websites (so festivals are no longer a safe place) I created a Facebook cause Release Polanski...I know realize it is becoming highly suspect to support Roman Polanski. (Ask Frederic Mitterrand!) This is to my knowledge a first time in festival history that someone gets arrested? RS: Yes think so
Thank you Karl,
Dennis Dembia who handles the Festival publicity at Rogers & Cowan declared "the main thing we want to get across to people is that despite what happened with Polanski - the festival has moved on and it is a magnificent festival and environment! We have great films, filmmakers, stars and industry who should not be overshadowed! There is so much more. We have Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman coming in still and many big nights ahead. I guess my message is that the Zurich Film Festival shines on and perseveres!
Morgan Freeman Michael Keaton Peter Fonda Terry Gilliam, Photos Zurich Film Festival
We have here fantastic material for marketing research with two main questions. Will that kind of publicity serve Zurich? Will the loud support from the filmmaking community serve Roman Polanski? Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him. SACD Petition Petitions on facebook Free Polanski from Jean-Yves Chalangeas, another Facebook cause the cause to free Roman Polanski... This reminds me of the catch line of "Threesome" a film which I released twenty years ago: "Sex is like pizza, even when it is bad it is still good." Bruno Chatelin
12.10.2009 | Editor's blog Cat. : ambassador arrest Arrest British films Bruno Chatelin CDATA Chinatown Cinema of France Cinema of Poland Danielle Thomson Dennis Dembia Director director marketing Entertainment Entertainment Europe Facebook Fest directors Film France free Human Interest Human Interest Jean-Yves Chalangeas karl spoerri Karl Spoerri Artistic Major Michael Keaton Morgan Freeman Person Relation Peter Fonda PIANIST polanski Roman Polanski Roman Polanski Rosemary's Baby Switzerland Technology Technology Terry Gilliam the Zurich Film Festival Threesome United States Zurich zurich festival Zurich Film Festival Zurich Film Festival
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