2017 WORLD FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL - OFFICIAL OPENING
2017 WORLD FILM FESTIVAL OF MONTREAL- OFFICIAL OPENING By Bernard Bujold - The official opening of the 2017 World Film Festival has been sober but a success! The founding president Serge Losique presented to the spectators his vision of the cinema and of his Festival and if there is one thing to watch is the use of the Internet to reach the public. The concept of the remote jury by the use of VIMEO is particularly innovative. It will be necessary to see the continuation but the Internet is definitely at the center of the plans for the future of the FFM. If Quebecor and Pierre-Karl Péladeau gave Serge Losique a lucky hand in becoming the owner-tenant of the Imperial Cinema, it is necessary to attribute the survival of the World Film Festival to its founder Serge Losique. He has succeeded in bringing together an efficient and determined team of volunteers, and even if the programming does not have the scale of the previous years, it remains inter...