Lili Hinstin Steps Down as Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLili Hinstin has stepped down as artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival after two years due to differences with the event’s top management.The Paris-based Hinstin had been appointed in August 2018 becoming the prominent Swiss event’s second female chief since its founding in 1946 and one of the few women to head an A-list fest around the world.“The Locarno Film Festival, under the Presidency of Marco Solari, and the Artistic Director Lili Hinstin decided today by mutual agreement to end their working relationship,” the festival said on Thursday in a statement.“Having acknowledged their diverging strategic views,” the statement added, they “decided by mutual consent to follow separate ways.”.
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