This year s Fargo Film Festival features 5 movies with Oscar buzz
Festival staffers talk about some of the titles likely to generate a buzz over the next two weeks as the annual festival streams March 18-28. Written By: John Lamb | ×
Steven Prescod and Robert Tarango star in Feeling Through. Special to The Forum
FARGO The Fargo Theatre won’t be hosting guests for its annual Fargo Film Festival, but that’s not keeping staffers from enthusiastically dishing about their favorite flicks.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the festival is rolling out online March 18-28 as the Fargo Theatre has been closed to the public for a year.
COVID-19 dealt a “devastating blow” to Centre County’s tourism and hospitality industry in 2020, with hotels seeing a nearly $50 million drop in revenue from a year earlier and the resulting local hotel occupancy tax falling by $2.7 million, Happy Valley Adventure Bureau President and CEO Fritz Smith said.
But Smith and others are hopeful that they are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and that optimism was on display Thursday as the Adventure Bureau awarded the second round of 2020 tourism grants to six events and projects planned for 2021.
“It was great to see the Palmer Museum of Art opening yesterday,” Smith said. “It’s great to see the students returning to campus. It’s great that we’ve held a couple of basketball tournaments over the last couple of weeks and that has helped elevate the hotel occupancy in the area. We were almost halfway full in our hotels this past weekend. After a very dismal December and January, it’s great to see some progress in