Once nominally intended to be the section for promising up - and - comers and new discoveries, for some years now the section has been doing double duty as a dumping ground for filmmakers on their way down, not quite ready (or too challenging) for prime - time, or
in a holding pattern pending another invitation to the main event.
«Americans» awareness of policy uncertainty leading up to the October 1st shutdown and the
pending debt ceiling debate appears to have grown as indicated by an apparent cautionary
holding pattern in overall consumer housing and personal finance sentiment.»