[Filmfestivalresearch] Film Festival Research at NECS 2012 in Lisbon (June 21-23)

[Skadi Loist]

Dear colleagues:

 

The preliminary conference program for the upcoming NECS Conference has been
released. This year’s annual conference “Time Networks: Screen Media and
Memory” takes place in Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-23, 2012 and is hosted by
the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra.

 

Film Festival Research again has a strong presence at NECS 2012.  Here is a
list of the announced panels, workshops and papers dedicated to film
festivals:

 

Thursday, 21st June 2012, 09.00 – 10.45 (Session A)
A10. POWER OF PROGRAMMING: FESTIVALS, IDENTITY AND POLITICS
hair: t.b.a.

*	Dunja Jelenkovic (Versailles): Role of Politics in Selection of Film
Programs – Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival in the Time of Wars
of 1990s
*	Ger Zielinski (Trent): On Affect and Memory Traces Circulated in and
around Identity Film Festivals
*	Maria-Paz Peirano (Kent): Reconstructing films and social memory in
a film archive festival: The case of the “Festival Internacional de Cine
Recobrado” of Valparaíso
*	Cindy S.C. Chan (Houston): Café Lumière (2003). Taiwanese Identity
between Japanese Cinema and International Film Festival

 

Thursday, 21st June 2012, 11.00 – 12.45 (Session B) 
B10. FILM FESTIVALS AND THE INDUSTRY
Chair: t.b.a.

*	Sumanta Barua/Finola Kerrigan (London): Importance and Facilitators
of Networking in International Film-festivals
*	Marijke de Valck (Amsterdam): Film Business, Festival Business: The
Growing Influence of Industry Partners
*	Minerva Campos (Madrid): Film Festivals’ Memory: Festivals Trademark
in “Video on Demand” websites

 

Thursday, 21st June 2012, 13.45 – 15.30 (Session C)
C10. KEY FESTIVAL CHALLENGES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Chair: t.b.a.

*	Dorota Ostrowska (London): International film festivals as
descendants of universal exhibitions
*	Laura Rodríguez Isaza (Leeds): Touring the Film Festival Circuit:
Migrating Patterns of Latin American Cinema
*	Aida Vallejo Vallejo (Madrid): Festival Dependencies. Documentary,
Europe and the Crisis
*	Gavin Wilson (York): Cell Cinema Festivals: Showing, Sharing and
Exhibiting Mobile Phone Films

 

Friday, 22nd June 2012, 09.00 – 10.45  (Session E)
E10. ACADEMICS AND FESTIVALS: ON THE FLOW OF LABOUR, EXPERTISE AND INFLUENCE
BETWEEN
Workshop – Film Festival Research Workgroup 

*	Chair: Skadi Loist (Junior researcher, University of Hamburg,
Germany, Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg)
*	Greg de Cuir, Jr. (Selector/Programmer, Alternative Film/Video
Belgrade; Managing Editor, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies)
*	Gavin Wilson (York St John University, UK, former cameramen, writer,
sector manager Screen Yorkshire)

 

Friday, 22nd June 2012, 11.00 – 12.45 (Session F)
F10. FILM FESTIVALS
Chair: t.b.a.

*	Przemyslaw Suwart (Weimar): Programming Film History at Film
Festivals
*	Christel Taillibert (Nice): Film Festivals and Digitization of
Motion Picture Films
*	Julian Stringer and Nikki J. Y. Lee (Nottingham):
Counter-Programming and the Udine Far East Film Festival

 

Saturday, 23rd June 2012, 09.00 – 10.45 (Session I)
I8. HOW BRITAIN LEARNED TO LOVE EUROPE: BRITISH TELEVISION AND EUROPEAN FILM
CULTURE, 1982-1996
Chair: t.b.a.

*	Justin Smith (Portsmouth): British television and European film
co-production policy
*	Rachael Keene (Portsmouth): Channel 4’s Visions: a European style of
film programme?
*	Laura Mayne (Portsmouth): From Cannes to Berlin: Examining the
importance of film festivals in promoting Channel 4 films in Europe
*	Anne Woods (Portsmouth): No Cannes Do

 

 

This list is also available online:  <http://tinyurl.com/cndz5js>
http://tinyurl.com/cndz5js

The preliminary program can be downloaded here: http://tinyurl.com/d67wc3d

 

Looking forward to see many of you in Lisbon.

Skadi

 

 

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