Back in April of this year, a few weeks before we launched www.filmfestfinder.com - the independent festival review site - Stephen Follows, an award-winning writer and producer at Britain's Ealing Studios, who researches data and statistics in the film industry, wrote an extraordinary article on "The Seismic Shift in the World of Film Festivals." Follows has given us permission to share portions of his article here on filmfestfinder's blog and link back to his site.