By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2020 5:00 pm EST
Some of the planet’s biggest and most prestigious film festivals are teaming up to bring this event to life, including Cannes, NYFF, TIFF, Tribeca, Venice, and more.
Lincoln Center, the home of the New York Film Festival, unveiled the news about this “unprecedented” digital global film festival on their official website. The list of organizations involved in curating the content reads like a who’s who of terrific international festivals: the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Guadalajara International Film Festival, International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM), Jerusalem Film Festival, Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Marrakech International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and more are all part of the curation team.
As of this writing, several of the festivals involved in putting this together still intend to move forward with in-person versions of their own individual festivals later this year. Whether any of those actually end up happening, of course, remains to be seen. I have my doubts, but as we’ve seen recently, the entire world can change in the blink of an eye. Things could once again look very different in five or six months, and we’ll be documenting it all here as we get closer to what used to be the fall festival season and seeing how different organizations choose to handle this truly unconventional year.
We Are One: A Global Film Festival runs from May 29 – June 7, 2020 at YouTube.com/WeAreOne.
