Interview with festival founder, Sangita Shresthova, in Cosmopolitan magazine (Czech edition)

After the festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named after him (Hubert Bals fund), used for supporting filmmakers from developing countries.

At the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999 it won the Alfred Bauer Prize, a prize awarded in memory of the festival founder.

The trophy was named after the festival founder.

Still, the German newspaper Rheinischer Merkur is not alone in assessing him as "cleverer as a festival founder than as a composer."

The festival founders liked and adapted the motto: "Festivus for the rest of us".

"The Europeans are more traditional, because they have more of a history with toy theater," said John Bell, a festival founder.

During the broadcast, festival founder, Walt Spence, and local Jim Campbell demonstrated how to catch and fry mullet.

In 2010 festival founder Lyndel Moore contacted Chip Monck, the legendary lighting director and stage manager of the original Woodstock Festival.

After Playing Lollapalooza 2011, Dom was asked by festival founder, Perry Farrell to open for Jane's Addiction.