[Filmfestivalresearch] Ten Years of Film Festival Studies/The Second Decade of a Burgeoning Field

[Sarah Smyth]

Ten Years of Film Festival Studies/The Second Decade of a Burgeoning Field

2- 4 pm, 8th March 2019, Birkbeck, University of London


Dear friends and colleagues,


I hope this message finds you well.


We would be delighted if you could join us to celebrate and review a decade of film festival studies at the discussion Ten Years of Film Festival Studies/The Second Decade of a Burgeoning Field, which will take place at ROOM: Mal G14, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street Building  at 2<https://maps.google.com/?q=Malet+St+2&entry=gmail&source=g>-4 pm on Friday, the 8th March 2019.


The event is envisioned as an open exchange between scholars and practitioners who will review the contribution that academia has made to the world of film festivals over the past decade. During the afternoon we will consider what areas of research are most meaningful to practitioners, where film festivals are headed and in turn, how film festival scholarship can continue contributing to the field.


The event will be facilitated by Prof Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews, publisher of the Film Festival Yearbook series, editor of The Film Festivals Reader (2013). Key discussants include Dr Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University, author of Film Festivals: Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (2007), co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Framing Film Festivals, co-editor of NECUS series on film festivals and co- founder of FFRN), Jean-Michel Frodon (Sciences Po, global film critic affiliated with various international festivals), Dr. Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck, University of London, author of studies on Cannes Film Festival), Hannah McGill (Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, British film critic and former director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival), and Marco Müller (Artistic Director of the Pingyao International Film Festival in China, and former artistic director of film festivals in Pesaro,  Turin, Locarno, and Venice IFF).


The event is presented by the Institute of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews and LUNA, the London Network of Contemporary Film Exhibition Cultures.


The event is free to attend but ticketed. Please click on the link to reserve your space.

https://bit.ly/2X6JO2y


We look forward to welcoming you on 8 March.


Yours sincerely,

Sarah Smyth
PhD Researcher,
IGCCC, Institute of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures and Film Studies Department, St Andrews