Dina Iordanova suggests grouping festivals with a certain political aim as “social concern festivals” (Iordanova 2009: 31), which would encompass festivals such as disability film festivals, environmental/green film festivals (Haslam 2004), globalization film festivals, human rights film festivals, festivals against human trafficking (Torchin 2010), etc.
Disability Film Festivals
Snyder, Sharon L., and David T. Mitchell (2008). “How Do We Get All these Disabilities in Here? Disability Film Festivals and the Politics of Atypicality.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies | Revue Canadienne d’Études Cinématographiques 17:1 (2008): 11–29.
Tracton, Sarah (2008). “Finding An(other) Audience: Accessible Cinema and The Other Film Festival.” Metro 159 (2008): 50–53.
Environmental Film Festivals
Haslam, Mark (2004). “Vision, Authority, Context: Cornerstones of Curation and Programming.” The Moving Image 4:1 (2004): 48–59.
Norman, Marc (2000). “Public Education Through Community-Based Film Programs: A Report on the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital.” The Journal of Environmental Education 31:2 (2000): 28–30.
Human Rights Film Festivals
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (2009). Setting Up a Human Rights Film Festival: A Handbook for Festival Organizers Including Case Studies of Prominent Human Rights Events. Ed. Tereza Porybná. Prague: People in Need. <http://www.oneworld.cz/ow/2009/download/pdf/OW-cookbook_web.pdf>. (3. May 2010)
Pócsik, Andrea (2008). “Their Life and Our Vicarious Experiences: On Human Rights Films and Festivals.” Politics and Culture 2 (2008). <http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=623>. (9 Jan. 2009)
Torchin, Leshu (2010). “Traffic Jam: Film, Activism and Human Trafficking.” Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe. Eds. William Brown, Dina Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin. St. Andrews: Univ. of St. Andrews. pp. 218–236.
Mental Health Film Festivals
Clarke, Pamela, and Lee Knifton (2009). “The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival: Promoting Social Change through the Arts.” A Life in the Day 13:3 (2009): 10–13.
Quinn, N., et al. (2011). “The Impact of a National Mental Health Arts and Film Festival on Stigma and Recovery.” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 123:1 (2011): 71–81.
(Last updated: 13 May 2011)