CIFF 2017 Wrap: Attendance And Fundraising Records Broken Yet Again
by The Daily Eye Team April 13 2017, 4:15 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secsCLEVELAND, Ohio - Year after year, the Cleveland International Film Festival plays like the best kind of broken record: It always breaks its own attendance and Challenge Match records. The 41st annual festival, which closed Sunday night with a big party and awards ceremony at Tower City Center, racked up an attendance of 106,504 film fans in its 12-day run. That tops last year's attendance of 102,255. And CIFF supporters stepped up and contributed $167,350 to the Challenge Match, topping the goal of $150,000 -- the largest in CIFF history.