‘Two years ago, the Cannes Film Festival was banning women with open toed shoes on the red carpet and now they are on YouTube. How quickly things change.’
Richard Sowada is one of the thinkers in the Australian film festival world who stitches his income together from a variety of independent projects. He took over the St Kilda Film Festival last November with a remit to think laterally about its role as it transitioned from the previous leadership of the legendary Paul Harris.