FILM FESTIVAL SYMPOSIUM

“Film Festivals, Funds and Film Industry”

3^rd Film Festivals Symposium, April 7-8-9, 2023

(42^nd ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL, April 7 – 17, 2023)

Istanbul, Turkey

As part of the project “Film Festivals in Turkey: Structure, Economy, Organization, Audience Profile (The case of Antalya, Adana, Istanbul, Ankara Film Festivals)” no. TUBITAK 1001 121K234, the 3^rd Film Festivals Symposium, organized by screenfest: The Journal of Film Festival Studies, will be held in cooperation with the Istanbul Film Festival on April 7-8-9, 2023 within and during the Istanbul Film Festival. The Symposium Organization Committee would like to thank İstanbul Film Festival for their cooperation and support. The Symposium aims to provide an academic debating platform that embraces all aspects of film festivals.  We cordially invite you to the Film Festival Symposium.

Abstract and Panel Proposal Deadline: 15 February 2023

THEME

Film Festivals, Funds and Film Industry

In the film industry, film festivals and funds play a significant role, especially for post-1990s independent cinema/arthouse films, in terms of both their increasing influence on the circulation of films across national borders and production activities (Wong, 2011). Given the fact that arthouse films/independent cinema generate limited box office revenues and face distribution problems festivals and their funding become increasingly important. This development has led to the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between films and festivals, with festivals occupying an important position in the global arthouse film economy (Valck, 2020). Funds serve a crucial function in the festival ecosystem in terms of creating a network for co-productions (Vinuela, 2018) in addition to production support.  In this context, particularly how arthouse films will be produced and distributed constitutes the main debate. It is worth discussing whether international film festivals and supranational funds as talent finders, play an increasingly active role as producers (Ostrowska, 2010; Loist, 2011; Valck, 2017) in the shaping and funding of independent cinema/arthouse film (Falicov, 2010; 2017; Chan, 2011; Ross, 2011; Vallejo, 2020) while at the same time enabling films to penetrate the global circuit (Iordanova, 2009). To this end, we seek answers to the following questions at the intersection of film festival studies and media industry studies:

Which (new) research methods do we need in the field of media industry studies? What research gaps need to be filled in studies on festivals and funds? What are the dominant approaches in the current debate? How do festivals and funds shape world cinema? How can we take the field of and the debates around film festival studies and media industry research further? Within the framework of these questions, the topics to be addressed in this symposium include but are not limited to the following:

– network and circuit of national/regional/supranational funds,

– film festivals, funds and global cinema culture,

– state funds in the context of hegemony or cultural diplomacy,

– funds as soft power of countries in hegemonic ascendancy,

– supranational funds’ quest for authenticity and artistic quality,

– critique on funds’ role in imposing Western aesthetic standards,

– constructing national cinema by festivals’ film selection policies and supranational funds,

– supranational funds, national specificity and the search for new solutions,

– supranational funds’ role in promoting diverse cinema cultures and transnational cinema,

– external factors on the decision-making processes of the funds,

– data-driven research on industry practices in terms of funding,

– funds’ contribution to theatrical distribution of arthouse films,

– flexible/labor intensive working conditions in the context of sustainability of festivals and funds,

In this regard, we believe that there is a need for further collaboration between academics, industry professionals and executives. How can professionals, academics and filmmakers cooperate to achieve increased transparency on funding? In this framework, the criteria for selection and evaluation of funds (along decolonialized standards, ecological thresholds or detailed mission statements that may be fund-specific, etc.) can be put up for discussion.

In addition to focusing on the main theme of “Film Festivals, Funds and Film Industry”, the 3^rd Film Festivals Symposium is also open to papers based on both empirical and theoretical approaches with an interdisciplinary reading on the following topics:

– the history and historiography of film festivals,

– methodology in the studies on film festivals,

– jury work and awards,

– programming, curating,

– film festivals – national cinema and cinema canon,

– film festivals’ audience/cinephile,

– funding of film festivals,

– film policy and film festivals,

– global festival circuit and film market

– distribution and circulation in relation to film festivals

– approach to short films in festivals (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental),

– thematic festivals,

– transnational film festivals,

– online film festivals,

– the COVID-19 pandemic and film festivals.

The Symposium welcomes academics, festival staff, film critics and film industry professionals. The Symposium will be held in Turkish and English. The Symposium will be an in-person event taking place during the 42^nd Istanbul Film Festival. It may, however, be held online depending on the course of the pandemic. We will share further information on this issue in the upcoming process. The accepted abstracts will be published in the “Abstracts e-Book” and the accepted full texts will be published in the “Film Festivals III e-Book” to be published by De Ki Basım Yayım.

Please visit the symposium website at http://www.screenfest.org

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Film festivalleri çalışmaları hakkında daha fazla ve faydalı referanslar için lütfen Skadi Loist ve Marijke de Valck tarafından geliştirilen Film Festivali Araştırma Ağı’na (Film Festival Research Network/FFRN) bakınız.
(http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org)

Bildiri özetleri Türkçe ve İngilizce olarak yazılmalı ve en fazla 500 kelimeden oluşmalıdır.

Bildiri özetlerine (Türkçe ve İngilizce) en az 3 en fazla 5 kelime olmak üzere anahtar kelimeler eklenmelidir.

Bildiri özetleri gönderilirken 150 kelimelik kısa biyografi eklenmelidir.

Panel önerileri gönderilirken “Panel başlığı, panelin kısa bir açıklaması, panelde  yer alacak bireysel bildiriler hakkında bilgiler ve panelistlerin kısa biyografilerini içeren 750 kelimelik öneri metni eklenmelidir.

Bildiri özetleri ve Panel Önerileri infoscreenfest@gmail.com adresine gönderilmelidir.

Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words.

A short biography of 150 words should be included when submitting abstracts.

Panel proposals, with  750-words should include the title of the panel, a brief description of the panel, information about the individual papers to be included, and brief biographies of the panelists.

Abstracts and panel proposals should be sent to infoscreenfest@gmail.com

Marijke de Valck |Utrecht Üniversitesi

de Valck, Film ve Medya  bölümünde Doçent öğretim üyesidir.  Film ve Televizyon Kültürleri yüksek lisans programının ortak yöneticisidir. Araştırmaları ulusötesi medya kültürleri, medya endüstrileri ve sanat sinemasıyla ilgilidir. Film Festival Research Network’ün kurucu ortağıdır. NECSUS’taki festivalleri inceleyen bölümünün ortak editörlüğünü yapmakta ve film festivalleri konusunda birçok yayını bulunmaktadır.

Prof. Dr. Skadi Loist |Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Skadi Loist, Almanya’nın Potsdam kentindeki Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film Üniversitesi’nde Görsel-İşitsel Medya Endüstrilerinde Üretim Kültürleri için Profesördür ve film festivalleri, küresel sinema ve film dolaşımı, queer film kültürü, sürdürülebilirlik ve eşitlik, ekran endüstrilerinde çeşitlilik ve kapsayıcılık üzerine araştırmaları bulunmaktadır. Loist, “GEP Analizi: Film Endüstrisinde Cinsiyet Eşitliği Politikalarının (GEP) Etkisini Değerlendirme, Anlama ve Modelleme” (DFG / ESRC / SSHRC 2021-2024) adlı uluslararası araştırma projesinin yürütücüsüdür.  Skadi Loist, 2008 yılında Film Festivali Araştırma Ağı’nı (FFRN) kurucusu, queer film festivallerinde uzun yıllar çalışmış bir araştırmacı ve NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies ve Journal of Festive Studies’in Yayın Kurulu üyesidir.

Tamara Falicov University of Missouri-Kansas City/ABD

Tamara L. Falicov, Missouri-Kansas City Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi’nin kurucu dekanıdır. Dekan Falicov iki kitabın yazarıdır: Latin Amerika Film Endüstrileri ve Sinematik Tango: Çağdaş Arjantin Filmi, film festivali araştırma metodolojileri üzerine ortak düzenlenmiş bir kitapla Dorota Ostrowska ile 2023’te yayınlanacak. Film festivali fonları üzerine yaptığı çalışmalar, Latin Amerikalı film yapımcıları ile uluslararası film festivallerinde film finansmanının dinamikleri arasındaki ilişkinin yanı sıra uluslararası ortak film yapımının kültürel dinamikleri üzerine odaklandığı çok sayıda makalesi ve kitap bölümleri vardırbulunabilir. Berlinale’deki Avrupa film pazarından podcast’lerde festivallerde film finansmanının Kuzey-Güney dinamiklerini tartıştı. Guatemala’daki genç Orta Amerikalı film yapımcıları için film geliştirme seminerlerinde eğitmen olarak görev yaptı.

Ana Vinuela, Sorbonne Nouvelle University/France

Ana Vinuela Sorbonne Nouvelle Üniversitesi-Paris 3’te Film ve Medya Çalışmaları alanında Doçenttir ve halen Uluslararası İlişkilerden Sorumlu Başkan Yardımcısı olarak görev yapmaktadır. IRCAV Araştırma Birimi (Sinema ve Görsel-İşitsel Araştırma Enstitüsü) üyesidir. Araştırmaları, bağımsız filmlerin uluslararası ortak yapımı ve ulusötesi dolaşımı ile film ve medya endüstrilerindeki kamu politikalarının zorluklarına odaklanmaktadır. Daha önce Fransız Ulusal Görsel-İşitsel Enstitüsü INA’da INA Sup lisansüstü okulunun başkanı olarak çalışmış ve Avrupa film endüstrisi için bir yatırım fonunun yanı sıra Avrupa Birliği MEDIA Programı tarafından finanse edilen çeşitli eğitim girişimlerini yönetmiştir.

KONUK FİLM FONU YÖNETİCİSİ (Çevrimiçi)

Jeske van der Slikke, Hubert Bals Fund-International Film Festival Rotterdam /Hollanda

Marijke de Valck

Utrecht Universty

de Valck is Associate Professor of Film and Media studies at Utrecht University, where she co-directs the master program in Film and Television Cultures. Her research deals with transnational media cultures, media industries and art cinema. She co-founded the Film Festival Research Network, co-edits the festivals review section in NECSUS, and has published widely on the topic of film festivals.

Prof. Dr. Skadi Loist 

Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Skadi Loist is Juniorprofessor for Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media Industries at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany, with a research and publication focus on film festivals, global cinema & film circulation, queer film culture, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion in screen industries. Loist is Lead PI of the international research project “GEP Analysis: Assessing, Understanding, and Modeling the Impact of Gender Equity Policies (GEP) in the Film Industry” (DFG/ESRC/SSHRC 2021–2024). Skadi Loist co-founded the Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) in 2008, worked many years with queer film festivals and is Editorial Board member of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and Journal of Festive Studies.

Tamara Falicov University of Missouri-Kansas City/USA

Tamara L. Falicov is the inaugural dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dean Falicov is the author of two books: Latin American Film Industries and The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film, with a co-edited book on film festival research methodologies, with Dorota Ostrowska to be published in 2023. Her work on film festival funds can be found in numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and co-edited anthologies where her main focus is on the relationship between Latin American filmmakers and the dynamics of film funding at international film festivals, as well as the cultural dynamics of international film co-production. She has been featured on podcasts from the European film market at the Berlinale discussing the North-South dynamics of film funding at festivals. She has served as an instructor in film development seminars for young Central American filmmakers in Guatemala and Honduras with teaching stints in Colombia and Portugal.

Ana Vinuela, Sorbonne Nouvelle University/France

Ana Vinuela is Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University-Paris 3, where she also currently serves as Vice-President for International Affairs. She is member of the Research Unit IRCAV (Cinema and Audio-visual Research Institute). Her research focuses on international co-production and transnational circulation of independent films, and on the challenges of public policies in the film and media industries. She has previously worked at INA, the French National Audio-visual Institute as Head of the graduate school INA Sup, and has managed an investment fund for the European film industry as well as several training initiatives funded by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

GUEST FILM FUND DIRECTOR (Online)

Jeske van der Slikke,/Hubert Bals Fund-International Film Festival Rotterdam/Netherlands

The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) supports groundbreaking film projects in every stage of the production process, working especially with filmmakers from countries where local film funding and infrastructure is lacking or restrictive. Support from the HBF can mark an initial vote of confidence and financial impetus that so often proves a vital first step in a film’s development process. As such, over its 30 year history, the fund has offered a launchpad to some of the most distinguished filmmakers working across the world today. Alongside its Script and Project Development Support scheme, the HBF works with its partners at the Netherlands Film Fund (NFF+HBF) and Creative Europe (HBF+Europe) to provide co-production support schemes. The fund collaborates with IFFR Pro on talent training, networking opportunities, and its co-production market CineMart. Jeske van der Slikke is the manager of the Hubert Bals Fund. She graduated from Utrecht University in 2014 with a master’s degree in Film & Television Studies. Subsequently, she worked for a Dutch production company and has been working for the Hubert Bals Fund since 2017.

Bildiri ve Panel Önerisi Gönderilmesi İçin Son Tarih	1 Mart 2023
Kabul Edilen Bildirilerin İlan Edilmesi	7 Mart 2023
Kayıt	10 Mart 2023
Sempozyum Programının Duyurusu	15 Mart 2023
Sempozyum Tarihleri	7-8-9 Nisan 2023
Tam Metin Gönderimi	1 Haziran 2023 – 1 Ağustos 2023
E-Kitap (Tam Metin) Yayınlanma Tarihi	Ekim 2023
Sempozyuma kayıt için ücret talep edilmeyecektir Katılımcıların seyahat ve konaklama masraflarını kendilerinin karşılaması gerekmektedir. Konaklama için otellerin bir listesi ve ek etkinliklerle ilgili bilgiler sempozyumun web sitesinde yayınlanacaktır.

Abstract and Panel Proposal Submission Deadline	March 1, 2023
Notification of Acceptance	March 7, 2022
Registration	March 10, 2023
Announcement of the Symposium Program	March 15, 2023
Symposium Dates	April 7-8-9, 2023
Invitations to Submit Selected Full-Length Papers	June 01, 2023
Deadline for Submitting Full-Length Papers	August 01, 2023
Publication of E-Book	October, 2023
No payment is required for participation Participants are required to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. A list of local hotels as well as information regarding additional events will be posted on the symposium’s website.

TEMA

Film Festivalleri, Fonlar ve Sinema Endüstrisi

Ulusal/bölgesel/uluslarüstü fonların ağ ve döngü işlevi

Film festivalleri, fonları ve küresel sinema kültürünün oluşumu

Kültürel diplomasi ya da hegemonya kavramları çerçevesinde devlet fonları

Hegemonik yükselişte olan ülkelerin Yumuşak Gücü olarak fonlar

Uluslar-üstü fonların özgünlük ve sanatsal nitelik arayışları

Uluslar-üstü fonlar ve Batı estetik tercihlerinin belirleyiciliği

Festivallerin film seçim politikaları ve uluslar-üstü fon programlarının ulusal sinema oluşturma özelliği

Uluslarüstü fonlar, ulusal özgünlükler ve yeni çözüm arayışları

Uluslarüstü fonların farklı sinema kültürlerini teşvik etmedeki rolleri

Festivaller, fonlar ve ulusötesi sinemanın gelişimi

Fon karar mekanizmalarında iç ve dış etkenler

Sinema endüstrisi pratiklerinde veri odaklı araştırmalar

Fon açısından sektör pratiklerine ilişkin veriye dayalı araştırma

Fonların arthouse filmlerin sinema salonu dağıtımına katkıları

Festivallerin ve fonların sürdürülebilirliği çerçevesinde esnek/emek yoğun çalışma koşulları

Sempozyumun amacı film festivallerini bütün yönleriyle ele alan akademik bir tartışma platformu oluşturmaktır.  Film Festivalleri Sempozyumu,  film festivalleri, fonları ve sinema endüstrisi” ana temasına yoğunlaşmakla birlikte aşağıdaki konu başlıklarını içeren disiplinler arası bir okuma yapan hem ampirik hem de teorik yaklaşım içeren bildirilere açıktır:

Film festivali tarihi ve yazımı

Film festivalleri çalışmalarında yöntem

Jüri ve ödüller

Programlama, küratörlük

Film festivalleri ulusal sinema ilişkisi ve sinema kanonu

Film festivali seyircisi/sinefil

Festivallerde kısa filme yaklaşım (kurmaca, belgesel, animasyon, deneysel)

Film festivallerinin fonlanması

Film festivallerinin sürdürülebilirliği

Küresel festival döngüsü ve film pazarı

Tematik festivaller

Ulusötesi film festivalleri

Çevrimiçi film festivalleri

COVID-19 pandemisi ve film festivalleri

THEME

Film Festivals, Funds and Film Industry

– Network and circuit of national/regional/supranational funds

– Film festivals, funds and global cinema culture

– State funds in the context of hegemony or cultural diplomacy

– Funds as soft power of countries in hegemonic ascendancy

– Supranational funds’ quest for authenticity and artistic quality

– Critique on funds’ role in imposing Western aesthetic standards

– Constructing national cinema by festivals’ film selection policies and supranational funds

– Supranational funds, national specificity and the search for new solutions

– Supranational funds’ role in promoting diverse cinema cultures and transnational cinema

– External factors on the decision-making processes of the funds

– Data-driven research on industry practices in terms of funding

– Funds’ contribution to theatrical distribution of arthouse films

– Fexible/labor intensive working conditions in the context of sustainability of festivals and funds

In addition to focusing on the main theme of “Film Festivals, Funds and Film Industry”, the 3^rd Film Festivals Symposium is also open to papers based on both empirical and theoretical approaches with an interdisciplinary reading on the following topics:

– The history and historiography of film festivals

– Methodology in the studies on film festivals

– Jury work and awards

– Programming, curating

– Film festivals – national cinema and cinema canon

– Film festivals’ audience/cinephile

– Funding of film festivals

– Film policy and film festivals

– Global festival circuit and film market

– Distribution and circulation in relation to film festivals

– Approach to short films in festivals (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental)

– Thematic festivals

– Transnational film festivals

– Online film festivals

– The COVID-19 pandemic and film festivals

Düzenleme Kurulu / Symposium Organising Committee

• Ali Karadoğan (Munzur Üniversitesi)
• Aydın Çam (Çukurova Üniversitesi)
• Emine Uçar İlbuğa (Akdeniz Üniversitesi)
• Hakan Erkılıç (Mersin Üniversitesi)
• Senem A. Duruel Erkılıç (Mersin Üniversitesi)
• S. Serhat Serter (Anadolu Üniversitesi)

Bilim Kurulu/ Scientific Committee-Advisory Board

• Ahmet Gürata (İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi)
• Aslı Daldal (Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi)
• Aslı Ekici (Selçuk Üniversitesi)
• Ayla Kanbur (Düzce Üniversitesi)
• Ayşe Toy Par (Galatasaray Üniversitesi)
• Bülent Vardar (Beykent Üniversitesi
• Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (Bilkent Üniversitesi)
• Ece Vitrinel (Galatasaray Üniversitesi)
• Ersan Ocak (TED Üniversitesi)
• Feride Çiçekoğlu (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
• F. Mutlu Binark (Hacettepe Üniversitesi)
• Gülseren Yücel (Nişantaşı Üniversitesi)
• Hasan Akbulut (İstanbul Üniversitesi)
• İpek Azime Çelik Rappas (Koç Üniversitesi)
• Kaya Özkaracalar (Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi)
• Kurtuluş Özgen (Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi)
• Lale Kabadayı (Ege Üniversitesi)
• Lalehan Öcal (Yeditepe Üniversitesi)
• Metin Çolak (Ege Üniversitesi)
• Murat Akser (Ulster University)
• Melis Behlil (Kadir Has Üniversitesi)
• Nazlı Bayram (Yaşar Üniversitesi)
• N. Aysun Akıncı Yüksel (Anadolu Üniversitesi)
• Nezih Erdoğan (İstinye Üniversitesi)
• Ö. İlke Şanlıer Yüksel (Çukurova Üniversitesi)
• Savaş Arslan (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi)
• Serkan Şavk (İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi)
• S. Ruken Öztürk (Ankara Üniversitesi)
• Ufuk Küçükcan (Anadolu Üniversitesi)
• Zeynep Çetin Erus (Marmara Üniversitesi)
• Zeynep Merve Uygun Azizoğlu (Özyeğin Üniversitesi)

Uluslararası Bilim Kurulu / International Scientific Committee-Advisory Board

• Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
• Tamara Falicov (University of Kansas, USA)
• Dina Iordanova (University of St. Andrews, UK)
• Brendan Kredell (Oakland University, USA)
• Skadi Loist (Film University Babelsberg, Germany)
• Kristen Stevens (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Julian Stringer  (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong (The City University of New York, USA)

Sekreterya/ Secretary

• Nil Yüce
• Onur Aytaç
• Selver Dikkol
• Servet Can Dönmez
• Yunus Erdoğan

Bildiri Özet ve Tam Metin Yazım Klavuzuna ulaşmak için tıklayınız: PDF Link

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Sempozyum Programına ulaşmak için lütfen tıklayınız

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Sempozyum özet kitabına buradan ulaşabilirsiniz

 

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