Documentary Film Festivals : Transformative Learning, Community Building & Solidarity / by Carole Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roy, Carole., Author.

Series:

Transgressions, Cultural Studies and Education , 2214-9740 ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

Documentary film festivals do more than provide a venue for watching films: they have the potential to foster critical thinking, especially toward mainstream media. The film festivals discussed in this book also help build a sense of community locally, as well as promote solidarity with people involved in struggles for social justice and ecological integrity around the world. Documentaries by independent filmmakers reveal stories ignored by mass media, stories at times tragic but more often than not inspiring. It can be said that documentary film festivals create a public space for citizens to listen together and to become informed on current issues in greater depth than newscast bulletins offer. This book shows how documentary films create a liminal space with transformative potential, a space that challenges assumptions, supports the development of empathy, and often stimulates engagement and action. In viewing documentaries together and engaging in critical reflection anddialogue, citizens can imagine alternative possibilities and consider solutions. Documentary Film Festivals: Transformative Learning, Community Building & Solidarity offers the voices of attendees, sponsors, and organizers who shared their thoughts and experiences of documentary film festivals and the impact on their views and engagement. Activists and organizers of various social movements who are seeking ways to inform and inspire will see evidence in this text that documentary film festivals are a means of drawing diverse audiences, engaging differences and respectfully promoting hope and preferred visions of the future. Documentary Film Festivals: Transformative Learning, Community Building & Solidarity includes concrete examples of creative and courageous struggles that have led to victories often ignored by the media. This book is bound to inspire.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Politics, Media, and Documentary Film Festivals

Film Festivals: Identity and Crisis

Media

Media and Adult Education

Why a Festival?

Documentary Film Festivals

Three Documentary Film Festivals: Short Histories

World Community Film Festival (Wcff) Courtenay, British Columbia

Reframe International Film Festival Peterborough, Ontario

Antigonish International Film Festival Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Common Threads

Transformative Learning: Surprises and Disorienting Dilemmas

Film Festivals as Educational Events

Documentary Films

Igniting a Transformative Learning Process

Challenging Assumptions and Gaining New Perspectives

Critical Assessment of Assumptions

“Why Don’t They Show Those on TV?” Promoting Media Literacy

Fostering Empathy and New Perspectives

Amplifying Voices and Challenging Perspectives

Political and International Issues

Hope and Inspiration

Fostering Community and Solidarity: Expanding Transformative Learning

Community Building

Fostering Solidarity

Inspiring Engagement: From Attitudes to Actions

Taking a Step: Seeking Information, Changing Attitudes, and Taking Initial Steps

Actively Engaged

Weavers of Dreams: Organizing with Vision & in Collaboration; Who Are the Organizers?

Curatorial role; Fostering Criticality

Promoting Media Literacy

Encouraging Critical Self-Reflection

Conclusion: Critique and Expansion

Responding to Urgent Calls

Critiques and Limits of Documentary Film Festivals

Extending Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory

Embodying Freire’s Pedagogy of Indignation and Hope; References

Lists of Documentary Films and Film Festivals.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789463004800

9463004807

OCLC:

945662907