I'd like this to become a full arts festival, with film, music and visual art.

Their schedule was too tight. Maybe next year.

The festival is a forum. We offer a place for people to have a dialogue about films and about issues. Film is a wonderful medium that can bring people together.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

It's a channel for the creation generation. It's not just TV and film, it's dance, music, theater, drama. It's art.