Film festival

Festivals that cater to a specific cultural or minority groups There has been a considerable increase in festivals focus on race, gender, sexuality and disability in recent years. However, they are not without their problems! It is vital to think about how the cultural or artistic aspect of the festival is by the social aspect to ensure that the finished product meets sponsors, funders and audiences. Festivals targeted minority often find difficult relationships with distributors: a programmer and

Film festivals are cultural events that take a film and judge it against other films of similar categories to ultimately recognize the best films within a given time period. The film festival industry is one that generates competition and recognition for filmmakers around the globe. The main intention behind holding film festivals is to properly promote films that are worthy of high-level recognition. These festivals are cultural events that celebrate respectable artistry and films that have shaped

Kimberly Molina-Navarro Zeinabu Davis COMM 135 17 November 2015 San Diego Film Festival The 16th annual film festival was by far the most consistent, well-organized festival I have ever attended. It was interesting to see a community of filmmakers come together and share their experiences here in San Diego. With it being my first film festival to ever attend, I was able to grasp and get a taste as to what the reality of filmmaking is through these independent filmmakers’ eyes. Targeting mainly

Film festivals are showcases that attract widespread global attention for films and people. People enjoy the chance for a community to interact in many ways: filmmaker to filmmaker, amateur to professional, and filmmaker to audience. Film festivals function as sites for the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent films from all over the world. Festivals are significantly important because they are promoting expression, art and culture. Film is the basis of all motion picture forms

Film festivals are widely perceived as powerful tools of cultural diplomacy in the form of an intricate machine of global networks. They serve as a means of social connection and interaction on a product-based level between suppliers and the demand sector: the film industries and the audiences. These all interact on the basis of the exploration of cultural diversities. Film festivals have a participation in the political economy of cinema, therefore their cultural aspect also maintains to be an important

and I’m in the festival with the short film ‘Beasts’. Hi, I’m Joana from Caneças, I’m 24 years old, and I’m in the festival with the short film ‘Beasts’. How the atmosphere that surrounds us make us who we are? For us, this is the main theme in the film. The story itself is about a kid, Lucas, who urges to be a man, but that urge ends up tricking him since he hasn’t the courage to become a man and involves himself with some characters that are the predators of that jungle in the film. Not having that

extensive list of films I decided to pick and choose from a date range and genre range. I wanted to not only focus on one area of film, but also on different aspects across the board stylistically and …… Some of the films I chose because they were tried and true favourites of mine, and some I chose because I had never heard of them before. I wanted to comfort and challenge myself at the same time while taking into consideration what may work best for the theoretical Film Festival at Antelope Valley

create a remake centric film festival from a project I did in another film class. In that class, my group and I decided to do a presentation on horror film remakes. While trying to decide on while two films to talk about, I found that a multitude of horror films had been remade. I continued looking up films that had been remade and eventually made it through the lengthy list of horror films, and found other genres that have had remakes. Once I found enough content to pad out a film line-up, I settled

I interned for the COPA shorts film festival from August to December. I was a film reviewer, and my duties and responsibilities were to essentially review any short films that were assigned to me, and then write a review and rate them accordingly. I would be emailed whenever a new film was sent to me via a website called FilmFreeway. Because my internship was primarily an online one, my schedule was flexible, which gave me the opportunity to work at my own pace, rather than at a fixed time every

It’s All Ogre Now is proud to present our lineup proposal for this years Belden Village Film Festival. Our line up includes a great variety of movies, all showing examples of our theme. The theme of our movie lineup is “It’s what’s on the inside that matters not what is on the outside.” Meaning that when people look at you and you look at other people the first thing noticed is almost always their appearance. Instead of focusing on appearance, this doesn’t make up a person, focus on who they are