Film fest widow courts H-wood
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
By Ben Cannon
Jackson Hole, Wyo.-After a year-and-a-half of mourning, the United Nations has apparently decided to pick up the pieces and move on. On Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to a Hollywood crowd about the organization’s desire to see more real-world injustices spotlighted in films.
Ban, who was interviewed onstage by Michael Douglas, told audience members the U.N.’s mission is “sometimes more dramatic than Hollywood movies,” Variety Magazine reported.
The message was an echo of what the Secretary-General had once told an audience at the Center for the Arts in June 2008, kicking-off the Jackson Hole Film Festival’s final act. One of the earliest victims of the recession, the film fest was shuttered in fall 2008.
As Variety pointed out, the U.N.’s eagerness to court filmmakers demonstrates a shift in its attitude toward Hollywood.
Alfred Hitchcock, for example, was once denied permission to shoot a key scene for North by Northwest at the U.N. building in New York City.
COURTESY UNITED NATIONSBefore he went to Hollywood, Ban Ki-moon was here.PERMALINK:
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