[Filmfestivalresearch] NECS Istanbul features 3 festival panels

[Valck, Marijke de]

Dear FFRN colleagues, 

During the NECS conference in Istanbul, June 24-27, 2010, there will be 3 panels on film festival research. 
Information on speakers and times is given below. 

All interested in film festival research are invited to join us for drinks after the 3rd festival panel on Saturday June 26, which ends at 6.45 pm

Looking forward to seeing you in Istanbul!
Marijke de Valck & Skadi Loist

FRIDAY 25TH OF JUNE 

11.00–12.45 PANELS D1–D7

D1. FILM FESTIVALS I: REPRESENTATION PERSPECTIVE
Chair: Marijke De Valck (Amsterdam)

Tess Van Hemert (Brisbane)
- Searching for a Feminist Voice: Negotiating the Tension between Expectation and Intent
Lindiwe Dovey / Federico Olivieri (London)
- ‘Forget Africa’: Representing Africa in Rotterdam and Tarifa
Dorota Ostrowska (London)
- International Film Festivals as Producers of World Cinema
Liz Czach (Edmonton)
- Defining Festival Cinema

SATURDAY 26TH OF JUNE 2010

11.00–12.45 PANELS H1–H7

H2. FILM FESTIVALS II: ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Chair: Dorota Ostrowska (t.b.a).

Marijke De Valck (Amsterdam)
- Going Digital: Festivals Responses to New Media
Skadi Loist (Hamburg)
- Precarious Cultural Work: About the Organization of Queer Film Festivals
Aida Vallejo (Madrid)
- Creating Webs in Eastern and Central Europe: Documentary Film Festivals in the Beginning   of XXI Century
Anna Jurzik / Philipp Lang / Paula Syniawa (Potsdam) –
- All Eyes on the Audience: A Different Perspective on German Film Festivals

17:00-18:45 PANELS J1-J8

J1. FILM FESTIVALS III: SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE
Chair: Skadi Loist (Hamburg)

Roya Rastegar (Santa Cruz)
- Landscaping America: the Sundance Film Festival
Ger Zielinski (New York)
- Cities, Community Film Festivals, and Their Publics
Toby Lee (Boston)
- Festivals, City, State: Negotiating Cultural Citizenship in the Space of the Film Festivals