Oh My Goodness! The 19th Roger Ebert’s Film Festival (Ebertfest) was awesome! The theme was Empathy, Kindness, Compassion and Forgiveness, and we welcomed filmmakers whose films, in one way or another, exemplified those principles, or in some...

1.”Ebertfest Honorees Share Memories of Roger Ebert”: Essential quotes compiled by Variety’s Bob Verini. “Townsend, who’ll moderate Burnett’s Q&A, praises Ebert as ‘a champion of new voices’ who ‘always had an open mind, saying, ‘OK, I’m learning something...

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