Argentina is usually known for two leading film festivals: BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival), known for its attraction to cinephiles, and Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the only A-list festival in Latin America. However, the country has a rich circuit of film events that are little known outside its boundaries, mainly due […]
An established and beloved aspect of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is standing in ‘queues winding their way around city blocks in the depths of winter’, meeting like-minded cinephiles.[1] This is not something I can participate in. My disability makes it difficult to stand for long periods of time. For many years, MIFF did […]
The Big Three film festivals (Cannes, Venice, and Berlin) may be of venerable age, but we do not have much by way of detailed and authoritative scholarship on their history. In 2000 there was Wolfgang Jacobsen’s 550-page volume 50 Years Berlinale: International Filmfestspiele Berlin, published by Nicolai in collaboration with the festival and Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche […]
An established and beloved aspect of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is standing in ‘queues winding their way around city blocks in the depths of winter’, meeting like-minded cinephiles.[1] This is not something I can participate in. My disability makes it difficult to stand for long periods of time. For many years, MIFF did […]
Accreditations typically determine how people access a film festival: they determine whether someone acts, for instance, as a journalist, a producer, a creator, a researcher, or as a regular member of the audience. The fact that a festival does not consider any accreditation system also conditions how attendees behave during the event. The spaces one […]
Audience research has become an increasingly significant aspect of film festivals. The development of hybrid and online film festivals has enabled opportunities to generate more knowledge about the festival audience. That resembles broader developments in today’s culture and society, which relies on online data to take audience knowledge to a higher level. Indeed, industry observers […]
Calls to decentre structures of cultural and political power have grown increasingly louder in the pandemic era. The 2021 edition of the Images Festival Research Forum invited different collectives and collective-like bodies of individuals – including Forensic Architecture, the Kinomatics Project and the inaugural curatorial team for the Toronto Biennial of Art – to explore […]
Amidst violent police killings of people of colour, a global health pandemic, and a grassroots surge in activism calling for social justice in the US and abroad, the Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) was more crucial than ever in 2020. Launching virtually from 23-27 September 2020, the community festival continued with its nearly twenty-year […]
Following calls to decenter structures of cultural and political power, collective practices have gained renewed relevance in a hyper-competitive landscape exacerbated by the effects of neoliberal strategies in the creative industries. From May 20-26, the Research Forum at Images Festival will explore the theme of ‘Decentralization as the Practice of Freedom’ through audio conversations, social […]
Le Festival international de cinéma Vues d’Afrique is North America’s largest and longest-running African film festival. Established in Montreal in 1984, it has been held annually ever since. Its 36th edition was set to open on 17 April and run until 26 April, when, just a few weeks before the opening, festival organisers had to […]
From 25-28 March 2021, parallel to the RAI Film Festival 2021, an academic conference featuring research in visual anthropology, ethnographic film and adjacent disciplines will be taking place virtually. Within the broad theme ‘Creative Engagement with Crisis’, the conference invites reflections on the notion of crises and the creative engagements with crises: How might research […]
From 11-12 September 2020, the University of Kansas and the Birkbeck University of London will be co-hosting the live online conference ‘Contours of Film Festivals Research and Methodologies’. Combining pre-recorded content and live panel discussions, the conference aims to both orient current methodologies and practices in film festival research as well as explore directions for […]
From 9-15 September 2020, the tenth edition of the Open City Documentary Festival London will celebrate the art of non-fiction and provide a platform for both young and established filmmakers to challenge the idea of documentary in all its forms. Taking place online this year, the programme combines film screenings, industry events, audio documentaries as […]
Mina, one of the longest running film festivals dedicated to mobile & smartphone filmmaking, is now inviting submissions for the 10th edition of the International Mobile Innovation Screening. From 13-15 November 2021, #Mina2021 will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and via Urban Screen […]
Film festivals cannot always claim to practice what they preach. Even some of the best-intentioned festivals often hit a wall: while attempting to exhibit politically subversive films, organisers also have to respond to diverse – and even conflicting – voices. Responding to the demands of local communities, audiences, filmmakers, and sponsors leads to compromises and […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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