Film Festivals and Activism - new book from St Andrews Film Studies

From: Alexander Marlow-Mann <[email protected]>

The latest instalment of the Film Festival Yearbook series is out now...

FILM FESTIVALS AND ACTIVISM

edited by
Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin

Film Festivals and Activism is available in the following formats:
Paperback: £19.99 (ISBN: 978-0-9563730-5-2)
Hardback:  £50.00 (ISBN: 978-0-9563730-6-9)
Kindle:       £14.99 (ISBN: 978-1-908437-01-3; forthcoming in April)

To order, visit: http://stafs.org


Table of Contents

Part 1: Contexts
Leshu Torchin, Networked for Advocacy: Film Festivals and Activism
Dina Iordanova, Film Festivals and Dissent: Can Film Change the World?
Mariagiulia Grassilli, Human Rights Film Festivals: Global/Local Networks
for Social Justice and Advocacy
Ger Zielinski and Skadi Loist, On the Development of Queer Film Festivals
and Their Media Activism
Amalia Córdova, Towards an Indigenous Film Festival Circuit
David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, Permutations of the Species: Independent
Disability Cinema and the Critique of National Normativity
Leshu Torchin, Traffic Jam Revisited: Film Festivals, Activism and Human
Trafficking

Part 2: Case Studies
Igor Blažević, Film Festivals as a Human Rights Awareness Building Tool:
Experiences of the Prague One World Festival
Stefan Simanowitz and Isabel Santaolalla, A Cinematic Refuge in the Desert:
Festival Internacional de Cine del Sahara
Nick Higgins, ‘Tell Our Story to the World’: The Meaning of Success for A
Massacre Foretold – A Filmmaker Reflects
Georgekutty A. L., Voices from the Waters: International Travelling Film
Festival on Water
Robert A. Rosenstone, Mediterranean Encounters in Rabat: Rencontres
méditerranéennes cinéma et droits de l’Homme
Clare Muller, Human Rights Film Festivals as an Emerging Model of Human
Rights Education: The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF), Australia
Patricia R. Zimmermann, Humanist and Poetic Activism: The Robert Flaherty
Film Seminar in the 1950s

Part 3: Resources
Leshu Torchin and Dina Iordanova, The Resources: Groundwork Continued
Alex Fischer, From Local to Global: The Growing Pains of the Human Rights
Watch International Film Festival: An Interview with Bruni Burres, Festival
Director (1991-2008)
Raluca Iacob, Combining the Foreign with the Familiar: An Interview with
Jasmina Bojic, Founder and Director of the United Nations Association Film
Festival
Alex Fischer, Hot Docs: A Prescription for Reality: An Interview with Sean
Farnel, Former Director of Programming at Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival
Leshu Torchin, Just Vision and the Uses of a Festival Circuit:  An
Interview with Ronit Avni, Executive Director of Just Vision
Greg de Cuir, ‘Connect Me with Activism and Film Practice, Not Activism and
Film Festivals!’: An Interview with Želimir Žilnik, Filmmaker
Leshu Torchin, How to Leverage a Film Festival: An Interview with Judith
Helfand, Filmmaker and Co-founder of Chicken & Egg Pictures and Working
Films
Alex Fischer, The Human Touch: A Review of the One World Human Rights Film
Festival Handbook
Kathleen Scott, Bibliography: Films, Film Festivals and Activism
Beatriz Tadeo Fuica, Tables
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
Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist, Thematic Bibliography on Film Festival
Research   Update: 2011

What they said about Film Festivals and Activism:

‘Film Festivals and Activism provides an excellent overview of the field of
human rights and other activist film festivals. It combines field-level
synthesis by academics with expertise in both film festivals and human
rights activism and employs a range of perspectives from key protagonists
working in both established and new festival settings.’ (Sam Gregory,
Programme Director, Witness, New York, USA)

‘Film Festivals and Activism constitutes a profound acknowledgement of the
work carried out by film festivals and contains a wealth of useful
information about the ideas behind them. It manages to convey the great
diversity of the international film circuit, featuring contributions that
range from the traditionally academic to the engagingly essayistic. Film
Festivals and Activism clearly demonstrates the need for this kind of
publication in academic film studies and, most importantly, provides a
valuable resource for anyone planning or working with international film
festivals.’ (Bjørn Sørenssen, Professor of Film and Media, Trondheim,
Norway)

‘The Film Festival Yearbook project represents a unique opportunity to
study the multi-faceted phenomenon of film festivals. It focuses on both
global networks and local practices and sheds new light on the artistic,
economic and political issues that are currently reshaping the global
cultural field. Bringing together academics and practitioners from an
impressively wide range of professional and national origins, it embraces
both empirical and theoretical analysis. In so doing it provides striking
new insights into a hugely significant cultural phenomenon.’ (Jean-Michel
Frodon, film critic, Paris, France)