[Filmfestivalresearch] FW: Film Festival Database | March 2020 Update

Mon Mar 23 19:06:33 CET 2020

Dear Festival Makers and Festival Researchers:

I hope this email finds you well and coping with the current globally unstable and uncertain situation.

The below message from the FF Database, which tries to list changes in the festival landscape due to the Corona Pandemic, might be of interest to many of you. 

Cheers

Skadi 

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Gastprofessor*in Dr. Skadi Loist

Produktionskulturen in audiovisuellen Medienindustrien

Visiting Professor Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media Industries

Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11

14482 Potsdam

Germany

office: +49.331.6202.212 | mobile: +49.176.6204.0039

 <mailto:s.loist at filmuniversitaet.de> s.loist at filmuniversitaet.de |  <http://www.skadiloist.de/> www.skadiloist.de

Project Leader " <http://filmcirculation.net/> Circulation" (BMBF 2017-2021)

 <http://www.necs.org/> necs.org | Steering Committee member European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) 

 <http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/> filmfestivalresearch.org | Founder Film Festival Research Network 

 <https://www.gfmedienwissenschaft.de/ag-medienindustrien> AG Medienindustrien | Sprecher*in AG Medienindustrien der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) 

 <https://necsus-ejms.org/> necsus-ejms.org | Editorial Board member NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies

Recent publications: 

-       Loist, Skadi and Deb Verhoeven, eds. (2019). Gendered Media Production. Spec. Issue of Media Industries 6:1.  <https://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org/> https://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org/

-       Loist, Skadi and Zhenya Samoilova (2019). " <http://www.filmcirculation.net/2019/10/29/getting-started-on-the-film-circulation-project> Getting Started on the Film Circulation Project: Studying Film Festivals with Various Data Sources." Film Circulation, Blog, 29 Oct. 2019. 

-       Prommer, Elizabeth und Skadi Loist (2019): "Filmindustrie: Branchenkultur mit Gender Bias." Handbuch Medien und Geschlecht: Perspektiven und Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Hg. Johanna Dorer, Brigitte Geiger, Brigitte Hipfl und Viktorija Ratković. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 1–14.  <https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-658-20712-0_28-1.pdf> DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-20712-0_28-1.

From: Film Festival Database [mailto:info at filmfestivaldatabase.com] 
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Film Festival Database | March 2020 Update

Greetings -

This is certainly not the newsletter I expected to send, but I wanted to take a second and share how I'm updating the database to reflect the many festival date changes taking place, as well as share some resources that might be valuable for filmmakers and festivals.

I've been tracking festival cancellations, postponements, and date changes in the main database spreadsheet. While I don't anticipate being able to keep tabs on every fest's new dates as they update them, I will do my best to report initial changes and cancellations in the yellow font column:  

  <https://mcusercontent.com/49644862788144eaa8e604f06/images/26634057-47dc-4033-9dbe-3fb08d545349.png> 

And in a new tab I made to collect all of these changes:  

  <https://mcusercontent.com/49644862788144eaa8e604f06/images/8966e7b0-0a4e-43ab-8c21-30968317dfbb.png> 

>From there, you can visit the specific festival's website to get the latest information. 

Here are some resources that you might find valuable during this time (thanks to Dear Producer, NEA, Film Festival Alliance, and some thoughtful friends): 

*	Resources for freelance artists, including emergency funds  <https://filmfestivaldatabase.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49644862788144eaa8e604f06&id=f1835bd891&e=95672bbb44> HERE
*	List of arts resources during the COVID-19 outbreak compiled by Creative Capital  <https://filmfestivaldatabase.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49644862788144eaa8e604f06&id=395e916055&e=95672bbb44> HERE
*	IATSE petition to tell Congress to include displaced entertainment workers in relief package  <https://filmfestivaldatabase.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49644862788144eaa8e604f06&id=26d26996f6&e=95672bbb44> HERE
*	Humanity in times of COVID-19: How to help each other properly  <https://filmfestivaldatabase.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49644862788144eaa8e604f06&id=aef518fc1a&e=95672bbb44> HERE
*	Film Festival Alliance's March 20th virtual roundtable for festival staff navigating postponements and cancellations  <https://filmfestivaldatabase.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49644862788144eaa8e604f06&id=4f0215d122&e=95672bbb44> HERE

My heart goes out to every filmmaker and festival whose livelihood, ambitions, dreams, and of course health - and health of loved ones - is being effected. I hope you all get through this period okay and come out on the other end with an even deeper drive to make amazing films, and to bring people together in celebration of them. 

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Wishing you all a healthy, safe, and hopeful spring, and solidarity, courage, and persistence in your film and festival endeavors.

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