Film festival played a major role in introducing foreign films to American audiences. Films in the first year included Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" and Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali". Today, thousands of film festivals take place around the world—from high-profile festivals such as Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah), to horror festivals such as Terror Film Festival (Philadelphia), and the Park City Film Music Festival, the first U.S. film festival dedicated to honoring music in film. Film Funding competitions such as Writers and Filmmakers were introduced when the cost of production could be lowered significantly and internet technology
Paul Kelly (film maker) completed a six-year documentary about Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart front man Lawrence entitled "Lawrence Of Belgravia" which premiered at the 2011 London Film Festival. Kelly and Saint Etienne collaborated again on "How We Used to Live" (2014), which has been described as "a cherishable, woozy-hazy trawl of London from postwar days to yuppiedom". Paul Kelly (film maker) Paul Kelly (born 23 July 1962 Farnborough, Hampshire) is an English film director, musician, photographer and designer. The son of an RAF fighter pilot - he took up flying aged fourteen, making his first solo flight on his seventeenth birthday. However, a