The sub
mission of pre-constituted panels by members of the FFRN to the Screen Studies Conference (Glasgow, 28-30 June 2013) was very successful. According to the preliminary program note circulated to accepted presenters there will be 3 panels and a few single papers on film festival research at the conference.
Here is a preliminary list of the festival-related panels and papers:
Panel: Cosmopolitan Circuits: The Influence of Film Festivals on Global Film Circulation
- Marijke de Valck: “Circulation and Promotion of Alternative Filmmaking through Film Festivals”
- Skadi Loist: “Exchange Networks: The International Film Festival Circuit and Global Film Circulation”
- Aida Vallejo Vallejo: “Festival translations: documentary production and cultural exchange within Europe”
Panel: On the Interplay of Cosmopolitanism, Difference and Resistance at International Film Festivals
- Murat Akser: “A Festival for the Labor: International Labor Film Festival as a Cosmopolitan Site of Resistance”
- Mattias Frey: “Cosmopolitanism, Exoticism and the ‘Sandwich Process’: The Programming and Discourse of Extreme Cinema at Film Festivals”
- Ger Zielinski: “Sexual Identities, Liberal Rights, Difference: On the Cosmopolitan Aspects of LGBT Film Festivals Here and There”
Panel: Festivals in the context of Chilean and Japanese cinema
- Oliver Dew: “The cosmopolitan film festival in Japan”
- Andrew Dorman: “Decentred Aesthetic: Consolidating Cosmopolitanism Through Cultural Spectacle in Contemporary Japanese ‘Festival Films’”
- Maria-Paz Peirano: “Towards a ‘cosmopolitan’ national film industry: Contemporary Chilean Cinema at International Film festivals”
Individual Papers within other panels:
Dorota Ostrowska: “Cannes Cinefondation: International Film Festivals as Producers of World Cinema”
David Richler: “Worldly Desires and Cosmopolitan Projections: Festival Spectatorship, the Tourist Gaze, and the Otherwordly Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul”