With advancements in film-making technology, the difference between professional and amateur film-making is quickly blurring – a good and bad thing for Newport Beach Film Festival programmers.
Good, because the quality and quantity of film submissions are so great, the annual festival is well-equipped with the best of the best films from all over the world. For the same reason this is good is why it is bad: with so many great film submissions, it is tough to choose which films make the cut.
To remedy this, film-goers will be thrilled to know a total of 509 films from 58 countries will be screened this year, nearly 60 more films than last year.