The 22nd Newport Beach Film Festival is making a big return for the first time since the pandemic, holding live showings of over 300 different movies from 50 countries of all different genres. The festival, which will go on for eight days from Oct. 21–28, will feature movies playing simultaneously at different theater locations throughout the county. This year is a really big deal for the festival, as the April 2020 festival was moved to almost entirely virtual, causing huge income losses, and the April 2021 festival had to be rescheduled to the present time. “During the pandemic, it was debilitating for us being shut down, it just completely devastated our business,” festival co-founder Todd Quartararo told The Epoch Times. “In 2020, when we were shut down, our festival was supposed to be in April. We had already had hundreds of thousands of dollars of sunk costs into producing our …
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