[ecrea] New book: Activist Film Festivals

Book: /Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject/ (2017), 
Bristol, UK: Intellect.

/Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject/breaks new ground 
by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry 
professionals to explore the concept of festivals as activist spaces 
where the sociopolitical identities of communities and individuals are 
confronted and shaped. Tracing the growth of activist and human 
rights-focused film festivals from the 1970s to the present, and using 
case studies from San Francisco, Brazil, Bristol, Melbourne and 
elsewhere, the book addresses such topics as whether politically 
orientated film festivals can achieve humanitarian aims or simply offer 
“cinema of suffering” and how effective festivals are at producing 
politically engaged spectators.

About the Editors:

Dr. Sonia M. Tascón is Lecturer of Social and Community Work at Western 
Sydney University, and has an academic background in Sociology, Film 
Studies, Media Studies, and Human Rights. She helped establish the first 
human rights film festival in the city of Perth, Western Australia, in 
2007 and has remained active and engaged with film festival studies 
since then. Her first sole-authored book was published in this area in 
2015, entitled /Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context. /

Dr. Tyson Wils is currently teaching media studies at Deakin University. 
He has published in the areas of media industries and technology, film 
theory, and landscape and cinema. He has previously worked as a features 
film programmer and education speaker for the Human Rights Arts & Film 
Festival and still currently guest lectures in the Masters course /Human 
Rights on Screen/ at University of Melbourne.


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