Welcome to the website of the Film Festival Research Network!
The Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) is a loose connection of scholars working on issues related to film festivals, founded by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist. The FFRN aims to make festival research more available, to connect its diverse aspects and to foster interdisciplinary exchange between researchers as well as festival professionals. To achieve this goal, we gathered the available material in a bibliography, put researchers in contact with each other at conferences and encourage communication via a mailing list.
In a first step, we gathered all academic sources in the field that we could find and made them findable by compiling a thematic annotated bibliography on film festival research. The first edition appeared in December 2008, the current version dated 22 Jan. 2010 is available online at: http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/Medien/berichte/arbeiten/0091_08.html. The Film Festival Yearbook, edited by Dina Iordanova et al., has featured the bibliography, its updates and further information on the field as a resource in print. With this new website in place, the bibliography has found a home on our site (see the middle tab in the navigation: FFRN bibliograhy). We can now update the bibliography more frequently and welcome suggestions and additions.
Then , we wanted to put researchers in contact with one another and started organizing panels at conferences, such as NECS and SCMS. As the network is growing, new meeting places and infrastructures are created. There is a subgroup of the FFRN: the Film Festival Research work group within the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). Within the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) a Special Interest Group (SIG) for Film and Media Festivals has been approved.
Furthermore, we wish to help festival researchers to be in contact and exchange about their work. Beyond the information available on this website, interested festival researchers and festival organizers can share information and start a conversation on the FFRN mailing list. You can subscribe to the mailing list at: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/filmfestivalresearch_listcultures.org.
If you have questions about the Film Festival Research Network, want to contribute to the bibliography or post something to the site, please feel free to contact us at: info@filmfestivalresearch.org.
Contact
Skadi Loist is Research Assistant and PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Hamburg (IMK). She is co-chair of the “Film & Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group” at SCMS (2011-2013). Her current research project analyzes queer film festivals in the U.S. and Germany/Austria. She is the co-editor of Bildschön: 20 Jahre Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg (2009). (Contact: skadi@filmfestivalresearch.org)
Marijke de Valck is Assistant Professor in the department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (2007). (Contact: marijke@filmfestivalresearch.org)
Last updated: 23 December 2011