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Jun 17, 2020 · The overall purpose of the special issue is to explore a relationship between film festivals as events, film festival history and film history, as well as to examine some pressing methodological questions posed by the study of film festivals histories. The articles focused on the selected aspects of the Cold War history of Karlovy Vary ...
- Dorota Ostrowska
- 2020
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. [1] Films may be of recent date and depending upon the festival's focus, can include International and Domestic releases.
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Jan 12, 2016 · This special issue on ‘Film festivals: origins and trajectories’ aims to bring historical concerns to the center of film festivals studies. Foregrounding the global dimensions of festivals, this issue brings together a number of in-depth historical studies of practices that have developed in vastly different parts of the world in the course ...
- Lydia Papadimitriou, Jeffrey Ruoff
- 2016
The first was the 1976 debut of the Toronto International Film Festival, originally known as the Festival of Festivals, a name that underscored its commitment to importing major attractions from other festivals for Canadian audiences. Its first year was marred by the withdrawal of expected contributions from some Hollywood studios, apparently ...
The Festival de Cannes is now the world’s most prestigious film gathering, as well as its most widely publicised cultural event. Today a major forum for film-producing countries, its history, selections and prizes are usually thought to date back to 1946 – the year of the first festival proper.
History of the Film Festival. Before 1939, Jean Zay, Minister for Education and Fine Arts, had the desire to implement a cultural event in France to rival the International Venice Film Festival. It is finally more than a year after the end of the war in 1946, was born the first edition of the International Film Festival in Cannes.
Sundance Institute assumed creative and administrative control of the U.S. Film Festival, expanded it to 10 days, and showcased American independent and international films, including: John Schlesinger ’s The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Rosenberg and Greta Schiller’s Before Stonewall, William Duke ’s The Killing Floor, John Sayle’s Brother from Another Planet, Roland Joffé ’s The ...
