The Uranium Film Festival (UFF), the world’s only film festival focused on ‘the whole nuclear fuel chain’, is entering its third year in Rio de Janeiro. The organisers Marcia Gomes de Oliveira (Executive Director) and Norbert G. Suchanek (General Director) of the arts and education non-profit Yellow Archives began the festival with the mission of […]
The Festival of Central and Eastern European Film Wiesbaden,[1] also known as ‘goEast’, is a key event on the German film festival calendar. This is perhaps in no small part due to the fact that the festival is organised by the Deutsches Filminstitut, also because it enjoys a dedicated following among enthusiasts of the larger, […]
‘Lively, radiant, lush…’ This is how colour authority Pantone Inc. describes emerald green (Pantone code 17-5641), the colour of the year for 2013. Welcome to NECSUS #3_Spring 2013 with a special section on ‘Green’. While springtime is normally an ideal season to evoke the greening of nature, our aim in this special section is to […]
The symposium Dynamics of Global Cinema: Peripheries, Infrastructure, Circulation will address a range of issues that touch on matters of cinematic transnationalism, the national, the supra- and sub-national, composite film cultures, infrastructure (including production base, financing, capital, markets, co-production, policy), circulation (including distribution, diasporic channels, on-line channels, film festivals, but also migrations and resources), mode of […]
The 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013) will take place from 27-29 June 2013 at the Institute of African Studies-University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. In addition to the thematic panels and keynote speeches the conference will host a documentary film festival. The films submitted to the event must portray issues […]
A preliminary program for the 2013 Screen Studies Conference has been circulated to accepted presenters. In the panel Cosmopolitan Circuits: The Influence of Film Festivals on Global Film Circulation, NECSUS film festival review section editors Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist of the Film Festival Research Network will present papers. De Valck delivers a paper […]
NECSUS is now open for general submissions of all types on a rolling basis throughout the year. Authors are invited to submit abstracts for a variety of full-length articles, in addition to medium-length reports and reviews (covering books, festivals, exhibitions, conferences, websites, etc.). For specific details regarding our submission process and guidelines, please visit this […]
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade began as a festival of Yugoslav alternative film and video production, with the aim to document and define trends in film theory as well as to identify the values and new creative possibilities in the field. The themes of the festival often set a mandate for exploring various aspects of the term […]
There are 11 days in September when the world’s cinematic community turns to Canada for the glitz and glamour of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).[1] The streets are flooded with both lay and professional attendees taking in movies, meetings, and the charms of this North American metropolis. However, while there are thousands of people […]
Subverting the usual touristic signifiers of Scottishness – tartanry, whisky, and so on – The Angels’ Share (Loach, 2012) follows four young people from Glasgow’s impoverished East End as they embark on what might be considered a victimless crime in the north of Scotland. Predominantly comic in tone, the film was shot in 2011 and […]
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London