The Middle East in the title of this book is a diverse, varied, multiple and contested area. It is not an area that can be regarded as one or united . And indeed, we acknowledge that in our coverage we somewhat stretch the concept.
Have you ever wondered...What's the deal with film festival programmers? What do they really think about your film? How do they make their decisions? And how can you improve your own film's odds of being picked? Why your film gets picked depends on a complex set of reasons, And it comes down to a single fact: film festivals, and programmers, aren't necessarily what you think! Jon Gann, founder …
Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of filmmaking. This book breaks new ground by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry professionals to explore the concept of festivals as spaces through an activist lens, as spaces where the sociopolitical identities of c…
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
The first step-by-step "How To" guide to film festivals, offering filmmakers a bird's eye view of what it takes to have a successful festival experience. Practical, hands-on information with examples and exercises to help the filmmaker include: Targeting the right festivals; Creating a press kit; Promoting and branding your film; Promoting and branding yourself; Filling out entry forms; Creatin…
Du site de l'éd.: The new annual series of Film Festival Yearbooks seeks to redress a gap in current scholarship, theorising the nature and functioning of film festivals and the festival circuit and providing case studies and resources to facilitate further research into this important and burgeoning field. The first volume, The Festival Circuit, features articles related to the global prolife…
Digging deeply into the precarious, intuitive business of film festival organization, Fischer pours this often-chaotic business into an adapted framework of the Open Systems Theory, so that it becomes possible to think about festivals in more pragmatic terms.
Du site de l'éd.: The second volume in the Film Festival Yearbook series, brings together essays about festivals that use international cinema to mediate the creation of transnational "imagined communities.
This text offers a systematic and authoritative introduction to the subject of film festivals. Individual essays are organized into coherent sections on the history, theory, method, and practice of film festival studies. Providing students with a solid overview of the study of film festivals; it begins with the emergence of the major 'A' list film festivals in Europe, before going on to discuss…
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.
' This third volume in the Film Festival Yearbook series explores a rapidly expanding but little-studied area in film festival - film festivals in East Asia.
Combining theoretical and historical overviews with detailed studies of individual festivals and personal testimonies from experts long associated with film festivals, Ruoff makes a thorough, wide-ranging, and insightful effort at covering a field that has been significantly neglected in scholarship.