{"id":1856,"date":"2015-03-15T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2015-03-15T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T13:59:57","slug":"film-and-media-festivals-sig-at-scms-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/index.php\/film-and-media-festivals-sig-at-scms-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Film and Media Festivals SIG at SCMS 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SCMS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivalresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SCMS.png\" alt=\"SCMS\" width=\"183\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a>The annual SCMS conference is only a couple of weeks away.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s conference takes place in Montreal at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel March 25-29, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Film and Media Festivals Scholarly Interest Group will have a number of events and featured panels:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:00AM-12:45PM (Session G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>G1: Geopolitics of Global Film Circulation: Third Cinema and the International Festival Circuit, 1960s-1970s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Luca Caminati (Concordia University)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Masha Salazkina (Concordia University), &#8220;The Geography of Third World Cinema at International Film Festivals in the 1960s&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mariano Ernesto Mestman (University of Buenos Aires), &#8220;The Cinematographic Third Worldism among Latin American Film Festivals&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Buchsbaum (City University of New York, Queens College), &#8220;Third Cinema, US Festivals, and Alternative Distributors&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rossen Djagalov (Koc University), &#8220;How Third Cinema Became Third-World: The View from Tashkent\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SIG business meeting<\/strong><\/span> will be held on <strong>Thursday, March 26 from 1:00pm-2:45pm<\/strong> in the <strong>Les Voyageurs 2 room<\/strong> (Lobby level). If you have any items for the agenda, please e-mail them to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tfalicov@ku.edu\">tfalicov@ku.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The SIG will be hosting a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>happy hour<\/strong><\/span> on <strong>Thursday, March 26 at 4:30pm at Bar Furco<\/strong> (a short walk from the conference hotel), at which we will toast the <strong>release<\/strong> of Lindiwe Dovey\u2019s new book, <em>Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals<\/em>, the first title in the Framing Film Festivals series. Please RSVP to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tfalicov@ku.edu\">tfalicov@ku.edu<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 27, 2015 12:15PM-02:00PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>L19: WORKSHOP Film and Media Criticism\/Scholarship: Bridging the Divide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Cynthia Lucia (Rider University)<\/p>\n<p>Workshop Participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roy Grundmann (Boston University)<\/li>\n<li>James Quandt (Toronto International Film Festival)<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Sharrett (Seton Hall University)<\/li>\n<li>Rahul Hamid (New York University Gallatin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday, March 27, 2015 02:15PM-04:00PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>M16: WORKSHOP The &#8216;World Cinema&#8217; Turn in Film Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: David Richler (Carleton University)<br \/>\nCo-Chair: Malini Guha (Carleton University) Workshop<\/p>\n<p>Participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dudley Andrew (Yale University)<\/li>\n<li>Luca Caminati (Concordia University)<\/li>\n<li>Jean Ma (Stanford University)<\/li>\n<li>Skadi Loist (University of Rostock)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday, March 28, 2015 01:00PM-02:45PM (Session P)<\/p>\n<p><strong>P11: Film Festivals and the &#8216;Creative Turn&#8217; in Documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Chris Cagle (Temple University)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aida Vallejo (University of the Basque Country &#8211; UPV\/EHU), &#8220;A Niche for Creativity: Defining Documentary in the Festival Circuit&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ezra Winton (NSCAD), &#8220;Documentary, Film Festivals and Distribution of the Sensible&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Maria-Paz Peirano (University of Kent), &#8220;Expanding Boundaries: Film Festivals and the Emergence of \u2018Creative\u2019 Documentary Filmmaking in Chile&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chris Cagle (Temple University), &#8220;Character as Aesthetic Problem in the Festival Documentary&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday, March 28, 2015 03:00PM-04:45PM (Session Q)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q19: WORKSHOP Film Festivals as a Pedagogical Tool: Student Centered Film Festivals and Film &amp; Media Study Away\/Abroad Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Dawn Hall (Western Kentucky University)<br \/>\nCo-Chair: Eric Pierson (University of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Workshop Participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yifen Beus (Brigham Young University, Hawaii)<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Meyers (Bucknell University)<\/li>\n<li>Ruth Goldman (Buffalo State College)<\/li>\n<li>Samhita Sunya (American University of Beirut)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This workshop will be streamed*<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 28, 2015 05:00PM-06:45PM (Session R)<\/p>\n<p><strong>R10: The Challenges of Curating Latin American Film in the 21st Century<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Susan Lord (Queen&#8217;s University)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diana Sanchez (Toronto International Film Festival), &#8220;The Hybrid in Latin American Cinema: An Examination of a New Facet of the \u2018Festival Film\u2019&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Diana Vargas (Havana Film Festival New York), &#8220;Latino Film Festivals in the USA: An Illusory Sense of Belonging or the Connecting Bridge of Communities Based on Multicultural Identities&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Zaira Zarza (Queen&#8217;s University), &#8220;Steps and Stumbles from the Archive to the Screen: Curating Cuban Diasporic Youth Cinema as Autoethnography&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Respondent: Tamara Falicov (University of Kansas)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday, March 29, 2015 09:00AM-10:45AM (Session S)<\/p>\n<p><strong>S1: Speaking in (Queer) Tongues: LGBT Film Festivals and the Politics of Language<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ger Zielinski (Trent University)<br \/>\nCo-Chair: Antoine Damiens (Concordia University)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antoine Damiens (Concordia University), &#8220;(Queer) Festival Programming as Translation: Negotiating Queer Cinema in Image+Nation&#8217;s Catalogues&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ger Zielinski (Trent University), &#8220;On Representation, Language, and Sexuality: The Curious Case of Montreal&#8217;s Queer Film Festivals&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Richards (The University of Melbourne), &#8220;&#8216;What\u2019s in a Name?&#8217; The Language of Labelling Queer Film Festivals&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Respondent: Skadi Loist (University of Rostock)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual SCMS conference is only a couple of weeks away.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s conference takes place in Montreal at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel March 25-29, 2015. 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