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Research into film festivals

5 areas of film 

Exhibition 

Production

Distribution 

Archived 

Training and education 

A-List festivals

Cannes 

Venice

Sundance 

Toronto 

Berlin 

Film festivals- balance of cultural and commercial 

Shining a light on films that would get overlooked if they weren’t shown in the festival 

1)As digital technologies have provided greater access to the means of film and media productions for those historically disenfranchised from the process, thousands more films are being made each year than can be catalogued or achieved. This increase has created a crisis in curating- an urgent need to filter these productions and connect with audiences.

Roya Rastegar, Screen September 2012

2)The international film festival circuit is the first curatorial phase in the process of global film curation. Festivals filter the plenitude of film production and take well-grounded personal taste as the starting point to do so. An essential characteristic of film festivals is an extraordinary alterability. The artistic choice depends on the available harvest and the degree of freedom to gather this crop.

3)Film festivals, not just the A-list events but also regional and public-skewed ones, are assuming a greater role than ever before in keeping art cinema alive. Many films will now have their only theatrical life on the festival circuit.

Mike Goodridge, screen international May 2009

Film festivals are crucial exhibition circuits, because they nurture independent films, showcase national cinemas and bring international films to ever-increasing audiences. In recent decades as art cinemas have closed, and as cities have explored new ways to enhance tourism and cultural exchange, more festivals have appeared every year. There are now several thousand throughout the world. 

Jeffery Ruoff, Introduction: Coming soon to a festival Near you: Programming Film Festivals 

4)Since the advent of the internet in the 1990s and the proliferation of mobile viewing devices in the past decade, film festivals have only grown, in size, in number and in variety. All signs suggest they will continue to do so. 

Jeffery Ruoff, Introduction: Coming soon to a Festival Near you: Programming Film Festivals

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Top 5 favourite films:

Dirty dancing – My mums and my favourite film, always watch it together, seen the show 

Just go with it – comfort film, will always watch

The parent Trap

Shutter island – first films where I was shocked by ending and didn’t guess

The Dark Knight – used to watch it on car journeys with my brother, joker used to scare me, but love Heath Ledger in 10 things I hate about you

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I found Lauzen's reading very interesting in my research as the focus was very much on the critical side of Cannes, and the rich backstory into the feminist activism going on around it.

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Film Festivals – 2000-word essay plan

Audience engagement with film festivals – specifically Cannes

Focus on celebrity engagement with the festival and how that influences the audience culture around it – what is the main focus of the audience attention

Media influence on this opinion – when it started to grow in popularity

Look at History of Cannes- when it started, by who, why it started

Critiques around Cannes- feminist critics- why

Palme d’Or prize – winners, what films, are they successful

Look into the following readings for research about Cannes

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I completed research into a film festival of my choosing, and found this independent festival based in New York, that is entirely based outside. Something that really stood out to me when looking into this Festival, was the funds that they offer out to filmmakers to assist them in their creations of films, as well as screening them to thousands of people.

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This is my plan for a curation of my own film festival