The NECS 2018 Conference “media tactics and engagement” taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands » June 27-29, 2018 is only a few days away.
Here is a list of all festival related papers and panels at this year’s NECS conference.
Panels Sponsored by Film Festival Research Workgroup
A7 Festivals’ History from 1950s to 1970s
Wednesday 27th » 9.00-10.45; UvA OMHP D1.18A
- Chair: Stefano Pisu »University of Cagliari/University of Roma Tre
- Caroline Moine »University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines
The International Federation of Film Producers Associations Backstage at International Film Festivals during the Cold War - Stefano Pisu »University of Cagliari/University of Roma Tre
The “Giornata del film europeo” in Venice: Between Film Festivals and European Media Policies, 1956-1960 - Gabrielle Chomentowski »National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris
African and Arab Filmmakers at Moscow and Tashkent Film Festivals: Foreign Policy and Professional Strategy during the Cold War - Elena Razlogova »Concordia University, Montreal
Translation as Surveillance and Curation at the Moscow International Film Festival in the 1960s
B7 Festival Strategies: Top down / Bottom up
Wednesday 27th » 11.00-12.45, UvA OMHP D1.18A
- Chair: Eija Niskanen »University of Helsinki
- Melis Behlil »Kadir Has University
Antalya in Istanbul: An Alternative “National Competition” - Ann Breidenbach »Stephens College
Sightlines and Shadows: Citizen Jane, Activism, and Women’s Film Festivals - Diane Burgess »University of British Columbia
#SeeTheNorth: Re-curating the National After TIFF at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival - Ger Zielinski »Ryerson University
Film Festivals as Media Practice: On Community Tactics and Strategies of Influence
C7 Film Festivals in the Global South
Wednesday 27th » 13.45-15.30, UvA OMHP D1.18A
- Chair: Marijke de Valck »Utrecht University
- Julia González de Canales »University of Vienna
European Film Festivals’ production strategies in the Global South - Juliana Muylaert Mager »Universidade Federal Fluminense
Brazilian documentaries in IDFA’s Bertha Fund: discussing the place for non-European cinemas in a globalized film festivals circuit - Konstantinos Tzouflas »University of Zurich
Timely opportunities or poisoned gifts? The New Argentine Cinema, the Greek New Wave & the festival funding/prod. Instruments
D8 Queer Film Festivals
Wednesday 27th » 15.45-17.00, UvA OMHP E0.12
- Chair: Skadi Loist »Film University Babelsberg
- Frederik Dhaenens »Ghent University
Moderately Queer Programming at an Established LGBTQ Film Festival: A case study of BFI Flare-London LGBT Film Festival - Theresa Heath »King’s College, London
‘Revolution sometimes happens because everyone refuses to go home’ Precarity and resistance at queer film festivals - Jonathan Petrychyn »York University
Happy Queers in a ‘Market without Imagination’: Canadian Queer Film Festival Programming Tactics, 1995-2005
E2 Film Festivals after Netflix
Thursday 28th » 9.00-10.45, UvA OMHP A1.18D
- Chair: Susan S. Kerns »Columbia College Chicago
- Aleksandra Milovanovic »Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
(Re)thinking Distribution, Exhibition and Spectatorship: Sustainability of Balkan Film Festivals - Eija Niskanen »University of Helsinki
Positing animation film festivals in the film festival circle - Pete Porter »University of Amsterdam
Okja, satire, and Netflix: this giant piggy went to market; this giant piggy came home - Kirsten Stevens »Monash University
Film Festivals After Netflix: Rethinking contemporary film festival engagement and programming tactics
F Film Festival Research Workgroup meeting
Thursday, 28 June 2018, 11-12.45, UvA OMHP D0.0
I13 Film Festivals (HoMER)
Friday 29th » 11.00-12.45, VU Main Building 14A20
- Chair: Paul Moore
- Sezen Kayhan »Koc University, Istanbul
Alternative Exhibition Strategies of Film Festivals in Turkey - María Paz Peirano »Universidad de Chile
Audience Formation”: Film Festivals and the Expansion of the Cinematic Field in Chile - Vincent Baptist »University of Amsterdam
Curated Circulation: Exploring the Consecutive Dissemination of Feature Films by Festivals, Distributors and Cinemas - Maria A. Velez-Serna »University of Stirling
Fringe festivals and DIY film exhibition in Scotland
Panels and Papers that might also be of Interest
F3 Queer Tactics, On and Behind the Screen: Practices of Coalition and Refusal in Cinema’s Queer Commons
Thursday 28th » 11.00-12.45, UvA OMHP C1.05
- Chair: Ger Zielinski »Ryerson University
- Antoine Damiens »Concordia University
Cineffable’s invisible labour: Paris International lesbian film festivals’ subtitles, translation, and solidarity - Emma Flavian »McGill University
Screening the Tear: Black Counter-Cinema, Bad Parolees, and Spectatorships of Empathy - Clinton Glenn »McGill University
Murderers of the Patriarchy: Reframing the (Queer) Nation in Romas Zabarauskas’ Porno Melodrama and You Can’t Escape Lithuania
G1 How to Teach European Cinema: the European University Film Award and Beyond
Thursday 28th » 13.45-15.30, UvA OMHP A1.18C
- Chair: Skadi Loist »Film University Babelsberg
- Workshop participants:
Kathrin Kohlstedde »Filmfest Hamburg - Dagmar Brunow »Linnaeus University
- Lydia Papadimitriou »Liverpool John Moores University
- Laura Copier »Universiteit Utrecht
- Melis Behlil »Kadir Has University
- Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna »University of Lodz
G7 Engaging in Cultural Democracy: Pedagogy, Curatorship, Artistic Practice
Thursday 28th » 13.45-15.30, UvA OMHP D1.18A
- Chair: Synne Tollerud Bull »University of Oslo, Norway
- Andrea Pócsik »Pázmány Péter Catholic University
“We, Europeans…” Challenges of socially engaged art, curatorship and teaching practice - Miriam De Rosa »Coventry University
Curating Moving Images in the Postdigital Age - Paula Albuquerque »University of Amsterdam / Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Beyond the Violet End of the Spectrum – Specter Visualization in the Age of CCTV and Drones - Susan Kerns »Columbia College Chicago
Embodying Pedagogy and Contradiction in Film Festival Planning and Curation