[Filmfestivalresearch] Festival research in NECSUS Spring 2025. Open for new festival reviews

[Valck, M. de (Marijke)]

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the Spring 2025 edition of NECSUS is now available online, with special attention for film festival research!
You can access it here<https://necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/spring-2025/>.

This edition includes a special dossier, edited by Kevin B. Lee, featuring video essay as a form of festival scholarship. It presents findings and reflections from the Cinema Futures Conference at Locarno 2024. Additionally, the festival reviews in the Spring 2025 issue are thematically aligned with the dossier’s focus on survival. The founders of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival share insights on the difficulties of maintaining and growing their event with a volunteer workforce and inconsistent funding. Ezra Winton uses the tumultuous events at Hot Docs 2024 as opportunity to critique the festival’s survival strategies and advocate for alternative approaches.

With the Spring 2025 issue out, the festival review section is open for new submissions for the Autumn 2025. We welcome contributions from researchers at all stages of their careers, including graduate students. Please contact the section editors - Diane Burgess, Antoine Damiens and/or Marijke de Valck - with your ideas at your earliest convenience.

Best wishes,
Marijke

Dr. Marijke de Valck | Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University | Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, 3512 EV Utrecht | The Netherlands | Room T1.12 | +31 30 2538162  | m.devalck at uu.nl<mailto:m.devalck at uu.nl> | www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MdeValck<http://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MdeValck> | www.filmfestivalresearch.org<http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/>


Open Access
Marijke de Valck and Antoine Damiens (eds.) Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After<https://www-springer-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/book/9783031141706>.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

New film festivals reviews in NECSUS Spring 2025. Read here<https://necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/spring-2025/>

New books in the Framing Film Festivals book series:

  *   Lidia Peralta Garcia and Lhoussain Simour, Migration Film Festivals<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-63693-6>: Social Functions, Expectations and Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan 2025
  *   Burcu Dabak Özdemir, Experiencing National Culture Abroad<https://www-springer-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/book/9783031732973>: The Study of Turkish Film Festivals in Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
  *   Teck Fann Goh, Japanese Film Festivals in the Asia-Pacific<https://www-springer-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/book/9783031720369>: Cultural Diplomacy, Practices and Audiences. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.