Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy is an American film producer and the co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival. He has been a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, the 38th Berlin International Film Festival and the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...
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The talent is at the Venice Film Festival for the world premiere, ... That screening started about an hour ago.
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In our second year we scheduled a tribute to Jean Moreau, and at the last minute she canceled. Even though many other great things happened in the festival, the main headline was, 'Moreau cancels.' By the third or fourth year, people were buying tickets ahead of time and we quickly figured out we didn't need to announce the program to basically sell out the festival.
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This year we liked a lot of new American films, more than usual.
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When they moved up the (Oscar telecast) dates, some distributors started to consider us valuable in the campaign for Oscars. A lot of academy members with second homes in Telluride attend the festival, and many academy members fly in.