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 place on Saturday, 25 June 2011 at Birkbeck College, University of London.
G6. REGIONAL AND CULTURAL POLITICS AT FILM FESTIVALS
Chair: Ger Zielinski (Trent)
Location: Birkbeck, Room MAL-152 (Malet Street Building, 1st floor)
- SooJeong Ahn (Seoul): Making a Hub of Asian Cinema: PIFF (Pusan FF)’s Regionalization Strategy
- Jindřiška Bláhová (Prague/Norwich): The Political Significance of the Butcher in Love: The Role of Marty in the Process of the Restoration of Contact between Hollywood and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s
- Ger Zielinski (Trent): From LGBT to Queer Film Festivals: On Negotiating the Global within the Local, and Vice-Versa
- Lindiwe Dovey (London): The Poetics and Politics of Jury Work at International Film Festivals in Africa
H6. TASTE MAKERS: FILM FESTIVALS AND THEIR RELATION TO FILM AESTHETICS AND PROGRAMMING
Chair: Skadi Loist (Hamburg)
Location: Birkbeck, Room MAL-152 (Malet Street Building, 1st floor)
- Kirsten Stevens (Victoria): The Rise of the Curator‐Star: Celebrity Festival Directors and the Marketing of Taste
- Niels Niessen (Minneapolis, MN): A New, North Wind: the Cinéma du Nord at Cannes
- Lalehan Öcal (Istanbul/Marmara) : The Gate between the Film Festivals and Narrative: Prerequisites of Success and Visibility Considering Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy
- Ryan Noelle Bowles (Santa Barbara, CA): Rights in Translation: Language and Testimony at the International Human Rights Film Festival
I7. THE POWER OF THE CIRCUIT: FILM FESTIVALS BETWEEN DISTINCTION, ACTIVISM AND INDUSTRY
Chair: Marijke de Valck (Amsterdam)
Location: Birkbeck, Room MAL-153 (Malet Street Building, 1st floor)
- Saër Maty Bâ (Portsmouth): Power/Knowledge and the Turntable: Film Festival Circuit(ing) Matters
- Skadi Loist (Hamburg): From Activism to Industry? The Role of Queer Film Festivals in the Larger Film Festival Circuit
- Aida Vallejo Vallejo (Madrid): Festival Feedback: Interactions between Creative Documentary and its Distribution Network in the Context of Europe
- Marijke de Valck (Amsterdam): Film Training and Festivals
Another panel features a paper on film festivals:
J1. THE LANGUAGES AND PRACTICES OF INTERNATIONAL FILM CULTURES
Chair: tba
Location: Birkbeck, Room MAL-538 (Malet Street Building, 5th floor)
- Mar Diestro-Dópido (London): Latin-American Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s and Film Festivals
- Per Vesterlund (Gävle): Dear Harry/Dear Paul – Selling the Concept of European Art Cinema in the 1960s
- Mattias Frey (Cantenbury): Postwar British Film Criticism’s Reaction to Cahiers du cinéma: Sight and Sound and the Establishment of Middlebrow Taste
- Özge Özyılmaz (Istanbul): Creating Citizens, Creating Audiences: Film Magazines in the Early Republican Period of Turkey
You can download the entire conference program here in PDF format.