Aidan Celeste, who was at the Festival in his capacity as the Maltese ‘representative’ of 27xCinema, an online collective of cinephile bloggers, said that aspiring Maltese filmmakers are hampered by not having proper access to European cinema releases.
“Although we are essentially a European culture, we still have a problem when it comes to being part of that network, since we don’t have a proper arthouse cinema, or proper locations for such a cinema. We still lack a good place to educate ourselves, to cultivate a culture of independent cinema,” Celeste said.
