Conference Schedule
Day 1
Friday 11 September
2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. (UK Time)
Panel 1: Methodologies in Film Festivals Research
Chairs: Tamara Falicov & Dorota Ostrowska
Antoine Damiens: Festivals that did not matter: archival research and festival studies' historiographical narrative
Dina Iordanova: Transnational Historiography/New Criticism in a Multilateral Festival Case Study
Brendan Kredell: Position-Taking in Virtual Space: The Cultural Field of Film Festivals in the Time of COVID
Maria Paz Peirano: Film Festivals Ethnographies: Going online?
Aida Vallejo: From the Field to the Data-base. Combining methods in Film Festival Research
Ger Zielinski: What You Ask (and How You Ask It) Is What You Get: On Disciplinarity in the Multidisciplinary Studies of Film Festivals
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. (UK Time)
Panel 2: Directions in Film Festivals Research
Chairs: Dorota Ostrowska & Tamara Falicov
Alexandra Colta: From Outside Observer to Active Participant. Researching Programming Practices of Human Rights Film Festivals
Estrella Sendra: Immersive Methodology and Collaboration in Film Festival Research
Katharina Kamleitner: Researching the Past: The Women's Film Festivals of the 1970s
Skadi Loist: Studying Film Circulation: Moving Film Festival Research to an Evidence-Based (Data Science), Global Perspective
Sarah Smyth: Comparative Analysis as a Methodological Approach. Film Festivalisation: the Rise of the Film Festival in the UK’s Postindustrial Cities
Marijke de Valck: Finding Methods: Interest-Driven Research and the Four F’s of Film Festivals
Day 2
Saturday 12 September
2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. (UK Time)
Panel 3: Film Festivals Practice:
Curating, Programming, Archiving and Collecting
Chair: Diana Sanchez and Tamara Falicov
Jonathan Ali: Carefully Curating the Caribbean: Programming the Third Horizon Film Festival
Maria Delgado
Anastasia Kerameos
Juana Suarez: Film Preservation and Film Festivals in Latin America
Hebe Tabachnik: How different audiences nurture and shape film festival programming