Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the NECS 2020 “Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies” conference scheduled for June 2020 had to be postponed and is currently (7-13 June 2021) taking place as NECS 2021 Palermo online.
Nevertheless, there is a big number of film and media festival related events happening.
The conference also collaborates with the Sicilia Queer 2021 International New Visions Film Festival.
Here is a list of panels, either focusing as a whole on film festivals or featuring single papers on film and media festivals:
Tuesday 8th » 12.00-14.00 CEST, Panel A2
Post-National Approaches to French Audiovisual Production in the 21st Century: Questions of Industry, Genres and Authorship
Chair: Christopher Meir » University Carlos III of Madrid
- Olivier Thévenin, Sabine Bosler » Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3; University of Lorraine
The Globalization of Audiovisual Creation: Circulating Frenchness through Mainstream Series in the Séries Mania Festival - Reece Goodall » University of Warwick
Alexandre Aja: A Post-national Genre Auteur? - Belén Vidal » King’s College London
The Place of the Biopic in Recent French Film Production
Tuesday 8th » 14.00-16.00 CEST, Panel B7
Transgender Practices
Chair: Alice Pugliese » University of Palermo
- Sergio Rigoletto » University of Oregon
Refugees and the Demand for Recognition: Film, Video Art and Media Activism in the Mediterranean - Harper Shalloe » Brown University
Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)Exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman - Zeynep Serinkaya » Koç University
KuirFest in Transit - Antoine Damiens » McGill University (moved from Saturday)
Curating Gay Film Studies: 1970s Gay Film Critics/Scholars as Festival Organizers
Thursday 10th » 14.00-16.00 CEST
Networking Time
Friday 11th, 10.00-12.00 CEST
Film Festival Research Workgroup
Workgroup room 2
Friday 11th » 16».00-18.00 CEST, Panel I9
Transfers and Collaboration within State Socialist Cinemas
Chair: Dorota Ostrowska » Birkbeck College, University of London
- Elena Razlogova » Concordia University
Cultural Transfer in Socialist Film Festival Networks: Third Cinema at Karlovy Vary, Leipzig, Moscow, and Tashkent - Jindřiška Bláhová » Charles University, Prague
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Fantasy vs. Reality of Intra-East Bloc Cooperation during Early Cold War - Ewa Ciszewska » University of Łódź
International Stars or Working Class Representatives? Polish Actors and Actresses at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival - Joanna Szczutkowska » Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz
The Presence of Polish Cinema at Film Festivals in Yugoslavia in the 1970s
Saturday 12th » 12.00-14.00 CEST, Panel J9
Film Festivals
Chair: Alexandra Schneider » Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
- Elena Oroz » University Carlos III of Madrid
Cocina de Imágenes: a Pioneer Event for Tasting and Testing the Ingredients and Recipes of Latin American Women’s filmmakers during the 70s and Early 80s - Dorota Ostrowska » Birkbeck College, University of London
“Circuit Festive Chronotope”: the Presence of Indigenous Films on the International Film Festival Circuit - Philippe Meers, Jasper Vanhaelemeesch » University of Antwerp
Cine Latino in the Low Countries. A Multimethod Analysis of Latin American Cinema at Belgian and Dutch Film Festivals - Ecem Yildirim » Concordia University
Europeanizing the Turkish Film Industry: the International Istanbul Film Festival’s Coproduction Market Meetings on the Bridge
Saturday 12th » 14.00-16.00 CEST, Panel K9
Cultural and Political Engagement at Documentary Festivals
Chair: Skadi Loist » Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
- Aida Vallejo » University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Documentary Circulation, Film Festivals and Cultural Hierarchies: the Basque Context - Maria Peirano » University of Chile
Archiving the Present, Facing the Future: Documentary Film Festivals and the Chilean Social Explosion - Alexandra-Maria Colta » University of Glasgow / University of St Andrews
Film Festivals as Cultural Intermediaries: Human Rights Cinema and Curatorial Ethics - Lalehan Öcal » Yeditepe University
Small Thematic Festivals as Public Sphere: Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary, a Possible Alternative
cancelled: Saturday 12th » 16.00-18.00 CEST, Panel L8
Forgotten LGBTQ/Feminist Media and Queer Futurism: Ephemerality as a Strategy of Transitional Re-imagination
Chair: Rosanna Maule » Concordia University
Antoine Damiens » McGill University
Curating Gay Film Studies: 1970s Gay Film Critics/Scholars as Festival OrganizersTheresa Heath » King’s College, London
Bodies in Transit/Festivals in Transition: Crossing Boundaries at Women’s and Queer Film Festivals
Saturday 12th » 16.00-18.00 CEST, Panel L9
Micro- and Macro-Politics: Images and Affectivity
Chair: Luca Barra » University of Bologna
- Hunter Hargraves » California State University, Fullerton
Democracy’s Chimera: Reality Television and the Rise of Western Populism - Diego Hoefel » NOVA University Lisbon – FCSH
A Light in the Dark: Comedy in the Rise of the Far-Right - Peter Virginas » Babes-Bolyai University / Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities
Films Festival Participation: (any) Body that Matters - Cristina Balma-Tivola, Giuliana Galvagno » Polytechnic of Turin
“See Them Cross the Barriers / See Them Cross the Borders”. Music Videoclip on Migration.
Sunday 13th » 14.00-16.00 CEST, Panel M6
Practices of Resistance: Moving Images and the Postsocialist Transition
Chair: Sima Kokotovic » Concordia University
- Paige Sarlin » SUNY University, Buffalo
Transversal Montage: Editing Transition and the Articulations of Historical Time in Želimir Žilnik’s Among the People: Life and Acting (2018) - Tamara Vukov » University of Montréal
Of transitions and time slips: Post-socialist temporalities, media forms, and political militant practices of documentary enunciation in the Tranzicija (Transition) project - Sima Kokotovic » Concordia University
Subversive: Uprisings, Protests and Film Festival as a Field of Resonance