Author Archives: Skadi

New film festival books

Posted on 23 December 2011 by Skadi

As the year comes to an end, yearly reviews abound.  Thus, it might be timely to highlight a few new monographs and books in film festival studies. 2011 saw a vast number of new publications.  Here are a few highlights: … Continue reading →

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Film festival research at SCMS 2012 Boston

Posted on 21 December 2011 by Skadi

The upcoming SCMS conference taking place in Boston March 21-15, 2012 promises to be the conference with the highest number of film festival papers and panel to be presented, yet.  There are 7 panels, 1 workshop and several single papers … Continue reading →

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CFP pre-constituted panel(s) on film festivals @ NECS 2012

Posted on 10 November 2011 by Skadi

The NECS 2012 Conference “Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory” Lisbon, 21st-23th June 2012 hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra In preparation for the sixth annual NECS conference in Lisbon next year we would … Continue reading →

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FFRN Part of the 1st Busan Cinema Forum

Posted on 12 September 2011 by Skadi

The Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) is proud to be a part of the First Busan Cinema Forum (BCF) taking place from October 10 to 12, hosted by the 16th Busan International Film Festival (October 6-14). The Busan International Film … Continue reading →

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Film Festival Dossier in the new issue of Screen

Posted on 10 June 2011 by Skadi

The recent issue of leading film studies journal Screen features The Film Festival Dossier, edited by David Archibald and Mitch Miller  and includes these six pieces: David Archibald and Mitchell Miller. “The Film Festivals dossier: Introduction.” Screen (2011) 52(2): 249-252. … Continue reading →

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FFRN at NECS London 2011

Posted on 12 May 2011 by Skadi

At the upcoming annual NECS conference, taking place in London hosted by Birkbeck and King’s College, University of London, 23-26 June 2011, the NECS workgroup “Film Festivals Research” will be present with three panels. All film festival research panels take … Continue reading →

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Maastricht University’s Media Culture students launch Project CineMaas

Posted on 6 May 2011 by Skadi

For their second semester in the MA in Media Culture programme, students Clarence Danmarc Ceniza (Philippines), Katerina Ivanova (Bulgaria), Dan Shao (China) and Alis Vakiari (Greece) launched Project CineMaas, a collaborative research initiative that explores how the concept of European … Continue reading →

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Film and Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group established at SCMS

Posted on 4 May 2011 by Skadi

This year’s large SCMS conference was quite impressive for festival research in its growing variety of topics and approaches. The papers and workshops probed the area in many exciting new ways. Congratulations to everyone concerned! I would like to acknowledge … Continue reading →

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ICO offers film festival training course

Posted on 21 March 2011 by Skadi

The British Independent Cinema Office (ICO) in collaboration with the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia offers a training course for European film festival organizers: DEVELOPING YOUR FILM FESTIVAL Training course 21-26 July 2011, Motovun Film Festival, Croatia The ICO (Independent … Continue reading →

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Save the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Posted on 5 March 2011 by Skadi

Severe cuts in the arts currently happening in the UK have slashed the BFI and is now threatening the existence of one of the oldest, best organized and audience- as well as industry-friendly LGBT film festivals in the world. There … Continue reading →

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