After a successful 2007 run, can the success of the Lone Star International Film Festival be duplicated? Or will recent developments at the Lone Star Film Society threaten the existence of a festival in 2008?

In case you missed it (and you probably did), there was a pretty big deal of an International Film Festival right here in Fort Worth back in November. For four days, a bunch of people you’d recognize from TV and film were wandering around the streets of our city, participating in panel discussions, screening films, and partying as if what happens here stays here. If you’re curious about what you missed (and you totally should be), go back and read and listen to our coverage of the festival. Don’t bother to search back issues of the FW Weekly or the Star-Telegram, they rarely bothered to show up.

Considering the success of 2007’s event, (a remarkable performance considering that for nearly everyone involved it was their first film festival) most people would expect that the team charged with putting it together would be kept on, to make 2008 just as successful, right?

Wrong.

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