[ecrea] Film Festivals and Activism - new book from St Andrews Film Studies

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

*FILM FESTIVALS AND ACTIVISM*

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*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_*

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*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 Blaz(evic', 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 Z(elimir Z(ilnik, 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)