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Lake Placid Film Festival

film festival

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ6477380 ↗
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The Lake Placid Film Festival is an annual Film Festival held in Lake Placid, New York. The Festival, previously known as the Lake Placid Film Forum, has played host to famous film personalities such as directors Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese. Guest lists have also included actors Parker Posey, Lucie Laurier and Steve Buscemi along with writer Richard Russo and film critic Gerald Peary.

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The public source identifies “Lake Placid Film Festival” as film festival. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lake, Placid and Film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 64-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lake, Placid and Film providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lake Placid Film Festival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.