There are plenty of film festivals every year, all over the country. Those of us in the San Francisco Bay area are particularly lucky, for we have not only the wealth of small film festivals that pop up irregularly during the year but also Cinequest, the annual festival in San Jose.
Cinequest isn’t just another film festival, either. Along with Cannes, Toronto, Telluride, and Sundance, it has been named one of the Top Ten Film Festivals in the world by the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide.
The festival begins on March 3, 2004 and runs through March 14, 2004. 58,000 people are expected to flood into San Jose to see the 68 films which make up this year’s program. Of those films, many will be premiering