"In fact, carnival [i.e. S.I.F.F.] does not know footlights, in the sense that it does not acknowledge any distinction between actors and spectators. Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people." states Mikhail Bakhtin. The film "festival" is similar to a carnival it its audience-viewer relationship. The boundary between the two is intertwined within the definitions.