Film festival has new venues, partners
The Detroit Docs International Film Festival, now in its fourth year, will be hosted by two new venues this year after breaking from last year's main partner, Wayne State University . Last year Wayne State provided free venues and helped publicize the festival. Festival director Todd Hardin said the university helped them out a great deal last year "but their facilities just aren't up to par, really, for films. They are really meant for lecture halls," Hardin said. "The decision was their decision, not ours…and a lot of that was because of the resources they needed to help produce the festival," Hardin added. Cheryl Yurkovich, Wayne State 's public relations director, said the university did not have the resources available to handle the project this year.