Art in the Dark

Chuck Boller of the Hawaii International Film Festival

Click here to view online magazine Cinema is an experience. It gives viewers the chance to absorb and react to a film in the relative privacy of a darkened theater. Silence, tears, laughter- no matter their response, viewers are free to feel what comes. “As Roger Ebert said, ‘It’s democracy in the dark.’” Says Chuck Boller, executive director of HIFF, the Hawaii International Film Festival. “The lights go down, and everybody’s equal. It’s like reading- it draws you in and you can have your own reaction to it. There’s nothing like being in a theater.”

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