[Filmfestivalresearch] Books of 2011, Season's Greetings, see you 2012

[Laurie Kirby]

Dear Film Festival Research,

I am writing to let you know about the IFFS. We will be hosting our International Film Festival Summit that will take place in Paris, France, April 3-4th, 2012. It is our 5th year in Europe (9th in North America). 

Executives from many European film festivals and industry leaders will be there to share ideas about solutions and innovations in:

¥	Funding & Sponsorship
¥	Programming
¥	Operations & Management
¥	Acquisition & Distribution 
¥	Digital Technology Solutions
¥	Box Office Technology


Sponsorships and conference passes includes access to all keynote presentations, panel discussions, case studies, networking breaks and hosted evening receptions. We also are interested in speakers and panel moderators should you have an interest. 

 To register please visit  http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1031451 or contact me for special rates on registration.

The Film Agenda

Please visit the Summit's website at http://filmfestivalsummit.com/iffseuropeagenda.html  to view the current speakers, agenda, and more. 


If you would like to register for our complimentary newsletter, which features original content, research, and other timely film festival industry information please visit   http://iffsnewsletter.questionpro.com/

Past conference speakers and attendees include:

Dublin International Film Festival, London Independent Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Milano International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Film London,  Dubal International Film Festival,  Babelgum,  The Norwegian International Film Festival, Stockholm International Film Festival,  IndiePix,  Dakatal, Monaco International Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter, Filmfestivals.com, Cineeuropa,  Variety, Venice International Film Festival,  Sarajevo Film Festival,  European Independent Film Festival,  Paris Cinema International Film Festival,  International Amsterdam Film Festival,  Locarno International Film Festival,  Moscow International Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festival,  Oslo Films,  Youtube, Eventival,  Tallinn Black Knights Film Festival and many more.



Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you can join us in Paris! Happy holidays!

P.S. Our  next 2012 International Music and FIlm Festival Summit will be December 2-4th in Austin. Stay tuned for our agenda! The list of some of our past speakers is attached.

Laurie Kirby, Esq., Executive Director

Thank you, 

On Dec 23, 2011, at 5:59 AM, Skadi Loist wrote:

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> Dear Film Festival Researchers:
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> As the year comes to an end let us say it was an amazing year for film
> festival research.  It was nice meeting colleagues, friends and festival
> folk around the globe at several great conferences and festivals panels
> happening between New Orleans, London, Busan and Paris.  
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> As everything gets a bit quieter for the holidays, there might be time to
> look back or check out something to read.  Therefore here is a tiny review
> of the year in form of festival publications (also available online:
> http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/new-film-festival-books/)
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> New film festival books
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> As the year comes to an end, yearly reviews abound.  Thus, it might be
> timely to highlight a few new monographs and books in film festival studies.
> 2011 saw a vast number of new publications.  Here are a few highlights:
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> In winter, early in 2011 the most recent installment of the Film Festival
> Yearbook series appeared.  The third volume edited by Dina Iordanova and
> Ruby Cheung covered the topic of Film Festivals and East Asia. (St Andrews
> Film Studies).  This spring the volume Festivals and the Cultural Public
> Sphere edited by Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli and Gerard Delanty stemming
> from the "Euro Festival: Art Festivals and the European Public Sphere"
> project came out at Routledge. This summer the dossier on Film Festivals
> edited by David Archibald and Mitch Miller appeared in Screen journal.  This
> summer Cindy Wong's awaited monograph Film Festivals: Culture, People, and
> Power on the Global Screen appeared at Rutgers University Press.  Another
> awaited book just came out: SooJeong Ahn's PhD thesis was published by Hong
> Kong University Press as the monograph The Pusan International Film
> Festival, South Korean Cinema and Globalization.
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> All other new publications on film festivals that came to our attention are
> listed in the bibliography section on  <http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org>
> www.filmfestivalresearch.org and will appear in the next installment of the
> Bibliography update in Film Festival Yearbook 4, coming out in 2012.  (As
> always, let us know about what we missed and alert us to new publications
> coming out.)
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> Enjoy the end of the year with new reading suggestions.
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> We are looking forward to see you next year.  Either at the Berlin
> International Film Festival (Feb 9-19, 2012) or in Boston at SCMS (March
> 21-25, 2012). Check out the amazing line-up of festival papers and panels:
> http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/film-festival-research-at-scms
> -2012-boston/.  
> 
> And if that does not work, feel free to join us in Lisbon at NECS (June
> 21-23, 2012).  Send in paper and panel proposals by January 15, 2012:
> http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/cfp-pre-constituted-panels-on-
> film-festivals-necs-2012/
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> Happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah & happy New Year!
> 
> Skadi Loist & Marijke de Valck
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> Skadi Loist
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> Co-Founder / Admin
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> Film Festival Research Network (FFRN)
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> <mailto:skadi at filmfestivalresearch.org> skadi at filmfestivalresearch.org
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Laurie Kirby, Esq., Executive Director

 

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