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Film Festivals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Film Festivals

Movies, stars, auteurs, and critics come together in film festivals as quintessential constellations of art, business, and glamour. Yet, how well do we understand the forces and meanings that these events embody? This work offers an overview of the history, people, films, and functions of the festival world.

On Film Festivals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

On Film Festivals

'Dekalog' is a series of guest-edited bi-annual publications, each exploring a specific subject, film or filmmaker. This home for serious film criticism engages academia as well as other forms of contemporary film writing, and includes filmmaker interviews.

Film Festivals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Film Festivals

The first comprehensive study of film festivals that marks key historical moments and offers surprising insights into the workings of a highly influentiual cultural network

International Film Festivals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

International Film Festivals

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from fields like sociology, urban studies and film criticism to patent technology and history. With contributors from across the world and covering the major festivals - Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin - as well as niche, genre and online film festivals, this book is an authoritative and exemplary guide to the evolution of these...

Film Festivals and Activism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Film Festivals and Activism

Featuring essays by and interviews with festival programmers, filmmakers, activists, and film scholars, "Film Festivals and Activism" explores the role of film festivals in social justice movements and campaigns.

Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 2

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals, looking at its contemporary and future challenges. Contributors from across the globe reflect on how documentary has positioned itself within both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including IDFA (Netherlands), Cannes IFF (France), Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK), Dockanema (Mozambique), Ismailia (Egypt) and Zinebi (Basque Country, Spain), among others. With a special focus on industrial and curatorial developments, this second in a two-volume set looks at recent changes occurred in the festival circuit, such as the proliferation of markets and co-production forums, the i...

Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalonia, Spain), among others. With a special focus on historical and political developments, this first volume draws a map of documentary festivals operating today, and then looks at their origins and evolution. This volume is organized in three sections: the first addresses methodological problems film h...

Film Festivals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Film Festivals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the space of a few short years. Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice represents a major addition to the literature on this topic, offering an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the area. With a combination of chapters specifically examining history, theory, method and practice, it offers a clear structure and systematic approach for the study of film festivals. Offering a collection of essays written by an international range of established scholars, it discusses well-known film festivals in Europe, North America and Asia, but equally d...

Human Rights Film Festivals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Human Rights Film Festivals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-08
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  • Publisher: Springer

Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each?

The Film Festival Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Film Festival Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

To garner the attention and recognition that will get a film distributed, entering film festivals is a must. With more than 500 festivals worldwide, each listing features detailed information, including contact names, addresses, Web sites, entry materials, entry deadlines, and fees. Insider information for each festival is also included, such as what types of features are shown most frequently, festival reputations, noteworthy celebrity sightings, location details, and more than a dozen interviews with festival industry professionals. It includes a listing of the 16 best festivals including the hugely diverse Berlin International Film Festival, the revamped and vastly improved Chicago International Film Festival, and the Valladolid International Film Festival, where A Clockwork Orange premiered. This book also includes a handy guide for film buffs who want to plan a vacation around an interesting festival in a marvelous setting, as well as film house listings for a great escape into the dark for a movie fix.