[Filmfestivalresearch] Recording from "Film Festivals and Decolonisation" Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) & Human Rights Film Network (HRFN) Seminar Meeting yesterday

[Rachel Johnson]

Dear all

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the seminar yesterday with Film Festival Research Network and Human Rights Film Network, and special thanks to our speakers Mariam Hamdy, Yuliia Kovalenko and Andrea Kuhn.

We are pleased to share a recording of the presentations and discussion: https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/rec/share/zEzub-LLH3khRxCy7cCRMu0Shc46au-Uv-1PsP193BOzxHKHtvGOW9Pl7WgXDKhb.e1VD3b_nKgiol14_
Please copy and paste this link into your browser; you can then use it link to stream or download the recording within the next 30 days. If you have any technical issues, please contact R.Johnson [at] leeds.ac.uk.

The meeting was incredibly thought-provoking, and we are looking forward to continuing our joint seminars with HRFN. We will be in touch soon with updates about future events.

All the very best

Rachel, Estrella and Juliana

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Film Festival Research Network (FFRH) & Human Rights Film Network (HRFN) Seminar Meeting



Topic: Festivals & Decolonisation



Date: Monday 11 September

Time: 4 PM CEST (3 PM BST)



Dear all,



We hope you had a lovely summer break and that this email finds you in good health. It was great to meet many of you in Oslo during the NECS Conference.



You are warmly welcome to join the FFRN and HRFN seminar meeting on the topic of decolonisation on Monday 11 September from 4 PM to 5 PM. Practitioners and researchers from festivals across the world will be sharing their experience and views in relation to decolonisation in 10-15 minute-presentation, followed by a Q&A. Thank you so much, Mariam, Yuliia and Andrea for accepting the invitation to be our speakers for this meeting!



Kindly let us know by Friday 8 September whether you can join us by replying to this email.



We would like to update the mailing list of the Film Festival Research Network. If you would NOT like to be included, kindly let us know. If you can think of anyone else who would like to join us, please feel free to forward this email or put them in touch with Rachel, Juliana and I.

Speakers:

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

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

Andrea Kuhn - 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-КОЛО 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.