By Andreas Wiseman
10.04.2020 - 02:13 / variety.com
By Kaleem Aftab
The coronavirus crisis may be prompting more festivals to migrate online, but not all filmmakers are on board. Director Alex Winter pulled his documentary “Zappa,” about rock iconoclast and classical composer Frank Zappa from both SXSW and CPH:DOX, rather than let the festivals stream his latest work.
“We had to stand down because we’re in the middle of sales discussions, and we can’t have the film leak,” says Winter. “Our main concern was sales. Being online with these
If these were normal times, thousands of party people in Southern California and beyond would be packing up their coolers, coozies and fanciest hats for this weekend's Desert Hearts festival. But with the pandemic clearing the schedule of IRL events, this weekend everyone with a working WiFi connection ca
By Elsa Keslassy
By Ellise Shafer
It was Plato who said that necessity is the mother of invention, and the dance community has put that adage into action by responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with a flurry of online music festivals and streaming events.One of the biggest of these shows to happen in the dance world thus far was Digital Mirage, a three-day online event that happened April 3-5 and featured more than four dozen artists, including Seven Lions, Kaskade and Sofi Tukker.