This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities affecting cultures of film festivals. The collection draws contours of critical inquiry orienting current film festival research and practice to explore new directions in archiving and decolonizing practices and big data analysis in the post-Covid-19 context and beyond. The four-part study gathers the voices of academics and practitioners who engage in a dialogue to articulate critical areas for both study and practice of film festivals, and identifies conceptual tools to address them: Archival Turn, Decolonizing Film Festival Studies, Post-Covid-19 and Film Festival Studies and Data Visualization and Film Festival Research and Practice.
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Archival Turn,
Chapter 1 -
Practitioner talks: Piers Handling - The Red and the Black: The State and the
Privateers, Different Approaches to Organizing Film Festivals,
Chapter 2 -
Antoine Damiens - Archival Research and Festival Studies' Historiographical
Narratives,
Chapter 3 - Jonathan Petrychyn - Film Festivals as Affective
Economies: Methodologies for Following Buzz as Film Festival Effect,
Chapter
4 - Practitioner talks: Juana Suarez - Film Preservation, Archives and Film
Festivals in Latin America, Part 2: Decolonising Film Festival Studies:
Practice-based/practice-led and collaborative methodologies,
Chapter 5 -
Estrella Sendra - Positionality, Immersive Methodology and Collaboration in
Film Festival Research,
Chapter 6 - Jasper Vanhaelemeesch - Immersion,
Reflection, Triangulation: Festival Research Methods in Small and Precarious
Cinemas,
Chapter 7 - Practitioner talks: Jonathan Ali - Providing Needed
Space for Caribbean and Diaspora Filmmakers in Miami,
Chapter 8 - Rachel
Johnson - On Studying Film Festivals and Migration: Borderlands and
Beginnings,
Chapter 9 - Alexandra-Maria Colta - Unraveling Curatorial
Dilemmas: Practice-led and Auto-ethnography in the Study of Human Rights Film
Festivals, Part 3: Post-Covid 19 and Film Festival Studies,
Chapter 10 -
Practitioner talks: Maria Delgado - Programming under Covid: London Film
Festival 2020,
Chapter 11 - Ger Zielinski - Steps to a Greener Film Festival
Studies: A Multidisciplinary Subfield and the Environmentalist Turn,
Chapter
12 - Practitioner talks: Hebe Tabachnik - Festivals Must Not Only Nurture
Audiences: They Must Create Them Too,
Chapter 13 - Dorota Ostrowska - Tell me
why you care? Film Festival Cultures, Ethics and Aesthetics of Care,
Chapter
14 - Practitioner talks: Jim Kolmar - Film Festivals in the Time of Covid-19
- A Programmer's Perspective, Part 4: Data Visualization and Film Festival
Research and Practice,
Chapter 15 - Skadi Loist - Studying Film Circulation:
Moving Film Festival Research to an Evidence-Based, Global Perspective,
Chapter 16 - Aida Vallejo & María Paz Peirano - From the Field to the
Data-base: Combining Methods in Film Festival Research,
Chapter 17 - Brendan
Kredell - Independent Film and the US Festival Circuit, Bibliography, Index.
Dorota Ostrowska is a senior lecturer in film and modern media at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written extensively about Polish and French film and TV histories, and film festival cultures. She is the author of Reading the French new wave: critics, writers and art cinema in France (2008), European Cinemas in the Television Age (co-edited with G. Roberts, 2007), Popular cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe: film cultures and histories (co-edited with F. Pitassio and Z. Varga, 2017). She is working on a monograph on the cultural history of international film festivals with special focus on questions of space, programming and spectatorial experience. Tamara L. Falicov is the inaugural dean of the UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences and author of Latin American Film Industries and The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film. Her research interests range from Latin American film festival research to assisting medical researchers in understanding language and culture in the treatment of Latinx patients and families.
