NECS Bucharest 2022
Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network

Main Conference Venue: Central Library of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independeței, no. 313, Bucharest, 060042, Romania

At this year’s NECS conference, taking place again in-person in Bucharest, Romania, there will be 8 panels and workshops featuring film festival research.

Thursday, 23 June 2022 » 9:00–10:45 EEST, Room B 3.1
A9 Writing and Accessing Film Festivals’ History: Difficulties, Goals, and Differences

Chair: Lucy Alejandra Pizaña Perez (Konrad Wolf Film University Babelsberg)

• Lucia Leoni (University of Basel)
  How to Work on Film Festivals Research: Cinematic Archives of Switzerland
• Cyril Cordoba (University of Fribourg)
  “Don’t Awaken a Sleeping Giant”: How Can/Should We Write about Locarno Film Festival’s History?
• Pablo La Parra-Pérez (Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola)
  Out of the Box: Notes of the Archive and Research Project ‘Zinemaldia 70: All Possible Histories’ (2018-2022)
• Juliana Muylaert (Federal Fluminense University)
  Film Festivals’ History and Studies in Brazil: An Overview

Thursday, 23 June 2022 » 11:00–12:45 EEST, Room B 2.2
B2 Film Festivals

Chair: Alkım Kutlu (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

• Andrea Gelardi (University of St. Andrews)
  A Regional Archipelago: Mapping and Measuring the Apulian Film Festival System
• Angela Bianca Saponari (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
  A Global Film Literacy Project: the Apulia Region between Film Festivals and European Networks
• Vejune Zemaityte (Tallinn University), Andres Karjus (Tallinn University) et al.
  A Cultural Data Analysis of the International Film Festival Participation Network
• Maria Francesca Piredda (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
  Transcultural Class. Typologies and Impacts of FESCAAAL Film Festival’s Educational Activities Aimed at Milanese Students

Thursday, 23 June 2022 » 15:00–16:45 EEST, Room 2.2
C2 Critical Perspectives on Film Festivals: Care, Precarity, Minority Work

Chair: Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University)

• Dorota Ostrowska (Birckbeck, University of London) (virtual participation)
  Tell Me Why You Care? Ethics & Aesthetics of Care and Film Festival Cultures
• Tânia Leão (University of Porto)
  Can we Openly Talk about Precarious and Voluntary Work at Film Festivals? Reflections on the Portuguese Case
• Feng-Mei Heberer (New York University)
  The Power of Transcience: Film Festivals and Migrant Organizing
• Siddharth Chadha (Uppsala University)
  Curating Precarity: Re-Thinking Queer Film Festivals Beyond Identity Politics

Friday 24 June 2022 » 11:00–12:45 EEST, Room A 2.1
E8 Community-based Film Festivals: From National to Transnational Networks

Chair: Juliana Muylaert (Federal Fluminense University)

• Lucy Alejandra Pizaña Perez (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
  Jewish Film Festivals: Network Nodes and the Development of ‘Jewish Film’
• Egemen Kepekçi (University of Bayreuth)
  Counterhegemonic Potentials of Pembe Hayat KuirFest with its Function as a Transnational Network
• Fatma Edemen (Jagiellonian University Kraków)
  Global Kurdish Film Festival: Opportunities and Challenges for a National Claim in an Online Transnational Network
• Maja Korbecka (Free University of Berlin)
  A Leopard Sitting Still on the Yellow Earth: China’s Art Cinema at Locarno Film Festival

Friday 24 June 2022 » 14.15–16.00 EEST, Room B 4.3
F7  Film Festivals in Transformation: Audiences, Programming, Cinephilia

Chair: Sebastián González Itier (Universidad de los Andes)

• María Paz Peirano (University of Chile)
  Transformations in documentary film festivals audiences: the case of FIDOCS
• Eija Niskanen (University of Helsinki)
  Not Rivals, But Co-operators – Asian Cinema Education Project as a Film Festivals’ Co-Project
• Csilla Kató (Babes Bolyai University)
  Programming Documentary Films for Film Festivals: Practices, Challenges, Perspectives
• Sebastián González Itier (University of the Andes)
  National Film Festivals Circuits in the Latin American Sphere: Discussing Film Canon, Film Culture and Cinephilia

Friday 24 June 2022 » 16.15–18.00 EEST, Room B 2.1
G1  Network Epistemologies: Using Network Analysis to Analyze Film Industry Phenomena
(sponsored by the Film Festival Research Workgroup & the Media Industries Workgroup)

Chair: Vejune Zemaityte (Tallinn University)

• Skadi Loist (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf) & Zhenya Samoilova (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
  From Film Circulation to Network Analysis: Using Social Network Analysis to Study the Film Festival Sector
• Katharina Burgdorf (University of Mannheim)
  Empirical Approaches to the Study of Film Movements: The Case of the New Hollywood Movement
• Deb Verhoeven (University of Alberta) & Pete Jones (University of Alberta) (virtual participation)
  Through a Glass Darkly: Gender Equity Policies and the Camera Department
• Martha Emilie Ehrich (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf), Elizabeth Prommer (University of Rostock) & Franziska Thiele (University of Greifswald)
  Gender Inequality in the Screen Industries: A Network Analysis of the Film Distribution Sector in Germany

Saturday Lunch, 25 June 2022 » 12:45–14:00 EEST, Room B 2.2

Film Festival Research Work Group

Saturday, 25 June 2022 » 14:15–16:00 EEST, B 2.3
J3 (merged with K3) Roundtable: Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era

Chair: Estrella Sendra (SOAS University of London)

• Antoine Damiens (York University)
• Skadi Loist (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)
• María Paz Peirano (University of Chile)
• Alanna Thain (McGill University) (virtual participation)
• Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University)
• Aida Vellejo (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) (virtual participation)
• Ger Zielinksi (Ryerson University)