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Music Festivals: A Risky Business | FT Film
The first World Culture Film Festival in Los Angeles has been hit by a dangerous storm on the other side of the world.
Typhoon Gaemi, packing winds equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane, battered the Philippines and Taiwan before blowing into China on Thursday night. It caused widespread travel disruptions as far west as Bhutan, where filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji was trying to catch a flight to Los Angeles for the opening night of WCFF, a new event that bills itself as a platform for "entertainment that uplifts."
The festival went ahead with a screening of Dorji's Oscar-nominated dramedy The Monk and the Gun, but instead of being on-site in LA, the director participated in a Q&A via Zoom.
