Organizers of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, set for October, have confirmed that they plan to go ahead with their festival, despite the resignation of board chairman Daniel Langlois.
The Montreal fest scene has faced considerable upheaval lately, with the recent announcement of a new fest to he headed by Moritz De Hadelyn and last year's withdrawing of funds from the Montreal World Film Festival by government agencies. Last week, organizers of the new Quebec fest, Le Festival International de Films de Montreal (Oct 12 - 23) announced dates that would coincide with the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Oct 13 - 23) and told indieWIRE that the two festivals would work together.
Now that partnership is off, according to a statement from Festival du Nouveau Cinéma organizers yesterday. The statement, translated from French, cited different visions and the concurrent dates saying, "no collaboration is possible for the moment." The 33 year old Festival du Nouveau Cinéma said that director and founder Claude Chamberlan will continue to lead the festival and announced new partners and collaborators soon.
