‘Documentary film festivals vol. 1: Methods, history politics; Documentary film festivals vol. 2: Changes, challenges, professional perspectives.’
‘Documentary film festivals vol. 1: Methods, history politics; Documentary film festivals vol. 2: Changes, challenges, professional perspectives.’
Documentary Film Festivals, divided into two volumes: Methods, History, Politics and Changes, Challenges, Professional Perspectives, appears two decades after the significant growth of documentary film festivals. With the conviction that these “are here to stay” (vol. 1: xi), editors Aida Vallejo and Ezra Winton engage in an exhaustive work of collecting a multiplicity of voices to prove the usefulness and necessity of establishing specific theoretical frameworks for the study of documentary film festivals. The editors suggest these ‘call for their own set of specific research questions’ (Vallejo, vol. 1: 31), and have their own hierarchy or ‘metropoles and peripheries’ with International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest at the head of the circuit (Winton, vol.1: 171). If documentary had mainly been placed at the margins of mainstream film culture, with few exceptions (Hogarth, 2006, Rich, 2010 among other), in these two volumes they are put at the very centre, further inviting scholars to rethink the existing approaches in film festival studies more broadly.
documentary, documentary film, film, festival, book review, ethnography
70-72
Sendra Fernandez, Estrella
649e182a-2efe-4202-bef9-cbd28bc6f496
24 February 2021
Sendra Fernandez, Estrella
649e182a-2efe-4202-bef9-cbd28bc6f496
Sendra Fernandez, Estrella
(2021)
‘Documentary film festivals vol. 1: Methods, history politics; Documentary film festivals vol. 2: Changes, challenges, professional perspectives.’.
Visual Studies, 36 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/1472586X.2020.1869066).
Abstract
Documentary Film Festivals, divided into two volumes: Methods, History, Politics and Changes, Challenges, Professional Perspectives, appears two decades after the significant growth of documentary film festivals. With the conviction that these “are here to stay” (vol. 1: xi), editors Aida Vallejo and Ezra Winton engage in an exhaustive work of collecting a multiplicity of voices to prove the usefulness and necessity of establishing specific theoretical frameworks for the study of documentary film festivals. The editors suggest these ‘call for their own set of specific research questions’ (Vallejo, vol. 1: 31), and have their own hierarchy or ‘metropoles and peripheries’ with International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest at the head of the circuit (Winton, vol.1: 171). If documentary had mainly been placed at the margins of mainstream film culture, with few exceptions (Hogarth, 2006, Rich, 2010 among other), in these two volumes they are put at the very centre, further inviting scholars to rethink the existing approaches in film festival studies more broadly.
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