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Ma, I hit here with Richard Lawson. Hello.

With David Canfield. Hi. And with Rebecca Ford.

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Rebecca you were coming to us live from the Mill Valley Film Festival, which tells you that it is

regional fall festival seasons.

So we're going to hear about that.

We're going to look ahead to Savannah Film Festival.

Hamptons is going on right now. Film festival is everywhere you look and we're going to kind of

look at who the main players and all those have been. We got more news in the Best Actor Race Front shortly after we discussed

Maestro so we're going to look at Best Actor and a couple other acting races in depth

a little bit more and a lot of the Best Documentary Contenders are starting to make their way out there.

So we're going to get into those too.

But let's start with you in Mill Valley, Rebecca.

Mill Valley is kind of always one of the big regional festivals.

There's a lot of

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