Before Parasite was an Oscar winner, it was a Palme d'Or. Before Moonlight was a cultural landmark, it was a Toronto premiere. Before Xavier Dolan was an auteur, he was a twenty-year-old at Cannes with a debut film and no credentials. Film festivals have always been where the industry meets its own future, awkwardly, not always graciously, but consistently ahead of everywhere else. The question is why. Why are festivals structurally better at discovering new voices than the m