Film festivals and activism / edited by Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iordanova, Dina.

Torchin, Leshu.

Series:

Film festival yearbook ; 4.

Film festival yearbook ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film festivals.

Political activists.

Physical Description:

xv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

St Andrews : St Andrews Film Studies, 2012.

Summary:

Featuring essays by and interviews with festival programmers, filmmakers, activists, and film scholars, "Film Festivals and Activism" explores the role of film festivals in social justice movements and campaigns.

Contents:

Part 1: Contexts

Networked for Advocacy: Film Festivals and Activism / Leshu Torchin

Film Festivals and Dissent: Can Film Change the World? / Dina Iordanova

Human Rights Film Festivals: Global/Local Networks for Social Justice and Advocacy / Mariagiulia Grassilli

On the Development of Queer Film Festivals and Their Media Activism / Ger Zielinski and Skadi Loist

Towards an Indigenous Film Festival Circuit / Amalia C̤rdova

Permutations of the Species: Independent Disability Cinema and the Critique of National Normativity / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder

Traffic Jam Revisited: Film Festivals, Activism and Human Trafficking / Leshu Torchin

Part 2: Case Studies

Film Festivals as a Human Rights Awareness Building Tool: Experiences of the Prague One World Festival / Igor Blaẽvic

A Cinematic Refuge in the Desert: Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara / Stefan Simanowitz and Isabel Santaolalla

Tell Our Story to the World: The Meaning of Success for A Massacre Foretold : A Filmmaker Reflects / Nick Higgins

Voices from the Waters: International Travelling Film Festival on Water / Georgekutty A.L.

Mediterranean Encounters in Rabat: Rencontres m̌diterraňennes ciňma et droits de lHomme / Robert A. Rosenstone

Human Rights Film Festivals as an Emerging Model of Human Rights Education: The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF), Australia / Clare Muller

Humanist and Poetic Activism: The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in the 1950s / Patricia R. Zimmermann

Part 3: Resources

The Resources: Groundwork Continued / Leshu Torchin and Dina Iordanova

From Local to Global: The Growing Pains of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival: An Interview with Bruni Burres, Festival Director (1991-2008) / Alex Fischer

Combining the Foreign with the Familiar: An Interview with Jasmina Bojic, Founder and Director of the United Nations Association Film Festival / Raluca Iacob

Hot Docs: A Prescription for Reality: An Interview with Sean Farnel, Former Director of Programming at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival / Alex Fischer

Just Vision and the Uses of a Festival Circuit: An Interview with Ronit Avni, Executive Director of Just Vision / Leshu Torchin

Connect Me with Activism and Film Practice, Not Activism and Film Festivals!: An Interview with Želimir Žilnik, Filmmaker / Greg De Cuir Jr.

How to Leverage a Film Festival: An Interview with Judith Helfand, Filmmaker and Co-founder of Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working Films / Leshu Torchin

The Human Touch: A Review of the One World Human Rights Film Festival Handbook / Alex Fischer

Bibliography: Films, Film Festivals and Activism / Kathleen Scott

Table 1: Human Rights Film Festivals

Table 2: Indigenous Film Festivals

Table 3: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Film Festivals

Table 4: Film Festivals Related to (Involuntary) Migration

Table 5: Disability and Health-Related Festivals

Table 5a: Deaf Film Festivals

Thematic Bibliography on Film Festival Research Update: 2011 / Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780956373069

0956373062

0956373054

9780956373052

OCLC:

785775116