Film Festivals

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Dr Finn Daniels-Yeomans
• Assessment: a 3000-word essay (50%) and 2000-word field trip report (50%)

In this module we explore the role of film festivals in relation to contemporary film culture and ask 'why do film festivals matter today and historically?' We will employ a variety of perspectives through which this relationship will be considered:

• programming
• audiences
• event-based cultural experience
• industry and funding
• the status of films which make up the programming of the festival.

We will reflect on how the relationship between contemporary film and film festival cultures is impacted by changes in technology; the site/location/space of the festival; politics, identity politics and geopolitics. We will look at different types of film festivals: city-based, international, identity, national, activist, archival and genre.