[Filmfestivalresearch] Reminder: Zoom Details for 'Festivals & Decolonisation' FFRN & HRFN seminario meeting today at 4 PM CEST

[Estrella Sendra Fernandez]

Dear all,

We hope you had a pleasant weekend. This is just a gentle reminder to our seminar meeting today, 11 September, at 4 pm CEST (3 pm in the UK).

The Film Festival Research Network and the Human Rights Film Network have joined forces to bring speakers who will share their understandings of the relationship between decolonisation and festivals, with reference to the research and practice.

The ZOOM details are as follows:


Zoom link: https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/89031513743

Meeting ID: 890 3151 3743

We look forward to seeing you then. We are sharing the speakers bios again for your reference.

Speakers:

Mariam Hamdy ¨C Film Lecturer, Film programmer, Film Distributor and Independent Filmmaker (The American University in Cairo)

Dr Yuliia Kovalenko ¨C PhD in Cultural Studies, film critic, program director of the Docudays UA IHRDFF.

Andrea Kuhn ¨C Director of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

Chairs: Rachel Johnson (University of Leeds), Dr Juliana Muylaert (Federal Fluminense University), and Dr Estrella Sendra (King¡¯s College London)


Speakers bios:

Mariam Hamdy is a Film and Arabic lecturer at the American university in Cairo, Egypt. She is a Ph.D candidate in Germany at Philipps-University Marburg. The project is an academic attempt at ¡°Deconstructing the Myth of Arab Identity in Berlinale Film Festival¡±. She is a Film Programmer at Aswan International Women Film Festival, Egypt. She is now curating and managing ¡®For You Film Festival¡¯ in Bistrita, Romania in its first edition October 2023. She is also a film distributor and an active participant in various international film festivals as well as film conferences. She received her BA in Comparative and English Literature and Theatre and her MA in Arabic Literature both from the American University in Cairo. Ms. Hamdy is also an independent filmmaker (mariam.hamdi at aucegypt.edu/mariam.hamdi at gmail.com<http://mariam.hamdi@aucegypt.edu/mariam.hamdi@gmail.com>)


Yuliia Kovalenko taught cultural studies and art studies at the universities of Odesa. In 2017, she received a PhD degree in Cultural Studies. As a film critic, she has publications in Ukrainian and international journals (Kino Raksti, La Furia Umana, KINO-§¬§°§­§° etc.), and runs her own blog about cinema kinotabs. In 2019, she joined the program department at Docudays UA. She is a member of Ukrainian Film Critics Union and National Union of Journalists. Member of the preselection team at Berlinale Forum. yuliia.kovalenko at docudays.ua<mailto:yuliia.kovalenko at docudays.ua>
Andrea Kuhn is the director of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival. She holds an M.A. in Film Studies and was the director of the silent film festival StummFilmMusikTage Erlangen from 2000 to 2010. Kuhn served as the chair of the Human Rights Film Network 2008-2009. She is an associate member of ANHAR: The Network for Arab Human Rights Films and served on the board of Dox Box e.V., a non-traditional support organization focusing on the empowerment of documentary filmmakers in the Arab World. She is a founding member of the section "Festivalarbeit" at ver.di (Germany's United Services Trade Union) which aims to improve working conditions for freelancers and employees at film festivals Andrea.Kuhn at stadt.nuernberg.de<mailto:Andrea.Kuhn at stadt.nuernberg.de>


Warm wishes and many thanks,

Estrella, Rachel, Juliana and our collaborators in the HRFN.


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Dr Estrella Sendra
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries Education (Festivals and Events) | FHEA
Associate Editor, Screenworks: the peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media<https://screenworks.org.uk/>

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Office hours: 11 am -12 pm on Mondays and 2-3 pm on Tuesdays.

Recent publications:
Sendra, Estrella (2023). ¡®Bringing cinema experiences back: A conversation with Armand Fall, manager of the Complexe Cin¨¦matographique Ousmane Semb¨¨ne in Dakar, Senegal¡¯. In Participations: International Journal of Audience Research, 19(1). Available open access (31.01.23) here<https://www.participations.org/19-01-14-fernandez.pdf>.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Sendra, Estrella (2023). ¡®Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds¡¯. In de Valck, Marijke and Damiens, Antoine (eds.) Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: 269-290. Available open access (05.01.23) here<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3_14>.

New video essays out:
Sendra, Estrella, (2023) ¡°Film as Sound Art: Embracing Love through Extra-diegetic Sound in Nadine Labaki¡¯s Caramel¡±, Open Screens 5(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.8013

Sendra, Estrella (2022) ¡®Displacement, Intimacy & Embodiment: Nearby Alain Gomis¡¯ Multi Sensory Cinema¡¯. In [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image, 9(2). Available online (11.10.22) here<http://mediacommons.org/intransition/displacement-intimacy-embodiment-nearby-alain-gomis%E2%80%99-multi-sensory-cinema>.