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According to its official website: The goal of the Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal International Film Festival) is to encourage cultural diversity and understanding between nations, to foster the cinema of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema, to promote filmmakers and innovative works, to discover and encourage new talents, and to promote meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.Information from the home page. Cf. the "Manifesto" of the organization for its perspective and goals in the context of its account of its history. The president of the Montreal World Film Festival (WFF) is Serge Losique ; its vice-president is Danièle Cauchard.See "contact" links at the official website. Losique's management has been controversial. The WFF lost the sponsorship of its previous government cultural funders, SODEC and Telefilm Canada as a result of disagreements with Losique in 2004 . Subsequently, these two funding agencies announced that they would support a new international film festival, called the New Montreal FilmFest (FIFM), to be managed by Spectra Entertainment and headed by Daniel Langlois (of SoftImage and Ex-Centris and the Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma ). After the inaugural edition of that new festival was unsuccessful, it was abandoned early in 2006 . As of July 2007, Losique's lawsuits against the funding agencies were dropped, paving the way for a restoration of government funding. {Link without Title} In News'' 10 Jan. 2006, accessed 31 Aug. 2006. Unlike the Toronto International Film Festival , its counterpart in English-speaking Canada, the Montreal World Film Festival focuses on various kinds of films from all over the world but features few if any produced in Hollywood. NOTES REFERENCES
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