Talk:Anchorage International Film Festival

The article Anchorage_International_Film_Festival on Wikipedia is marked as a stub mostly, I believe, because it is incomplete. The leading summary at the beginning of the Article is very short and lacks flow when read. In a mere six lines of summary, twice it mentions that the festival is held annually. Additionally, the article appears to have very few contributors. The summary also includes one prominent local venue where the event is held but fails to discuss the other prominent venues of the area where there are screenings. As someone who has attended the festival many times, I know that a prominent aspect of it is that it takes viewers all around the city so that Anchorage, along with the films are being promoted at the same time. The article does have a history section but it is only two sentences and lacks information about its reception by the local public and by filmmakers and producers. The article also includes a section for the awards given at the festival but no previous winners are mentioned. This section should likely also include a paragraph on the Oscar and other award-winning films that have been a part of the festival before their widespread success. Another problem with this article is that, for the most part, the information comes from the AIFF website which does not demonstrate a third party or unbiased source. A final problem with the article is that it is out of date. It still is giving information about the upcoming festival of 2017 which ended months ago. My recommendation for this article is that it includes more writers and more sources. I would look at local news publications and film festival reviews to find more information for the article. I would also include a table of past winners and films that were awarded along with deleting all out of date information. Hilde den Hellige (talk) 00:43, 2 February 2018 (UTC)