World Comedy Film Festival
Posted on Jun 01, 2009 under Entertainment, Travel | No CommentWorld travelers on the lookout for the best Bangkok hotel will have so much to choose from. This city offers a surplus of luxury and comfort. The population of nearly 15 million, it is estimated, is extremely diverse, and helping to continue to feed the city’s reputation as one, if not, the Asian hotspot. There are gorgeous city views, fantastically sprawling neighborhood, and a tropical climate that is very pleasing. With all of these things going for it, it is also one of the most metropolitan centers in Asia. This brings tremendous cultural innovations to compliment the traditional forms, and there is something to offer to everyone who passes through here.
The Bangkok Film Festival and the World Film Festival here already have splendid reputations in the international film community as being premiere venues for showing the best new work on the screen. 2009 is the kick-off year for Bangkok’s World Comedy Film Festival. This will feature over 60 international comedy films. There will be selections of Asian films, and a roughly equal selection of films from Europe, the Americas, and Africa. There is also a special segment of the festival featuring some of the best of Thai comedy from the last three decades. The festival director this year is Nakorn Veerapravati from the Federation of National Film Association, who is acting as co-producer of the festival along with the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
Under the title, Laughter’s Beyond Frontiers, the first World Comedy Film Festival is expected to stimulate the economy after recent tough times, and help to bring foreign investors to the local arts community. It is also expected that the festival will help relieve stress for the festival audiences, as only comedy can do, and to bring feelings of pleasantness between the locals and the international audiences.
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