Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods

This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities affecting cultures of film festivals.

Dorota Ostrowska is a senior lecturer in film and modern media at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written extensively about Polish and French film and TV histories, and film festival cultures. She is the author of Reading the French new wave: critics, writers and art cinema in France (2008), European Cinemas in the Television Age (co-edited with G. Roberts, 2007), Popular cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe: film cultures and histories (co-edited with F. Pitassio and Z. Varga, 2017). She is working on a monograph on the cultural history of international film festivals with special focus on questions of space, programming and spectatorial experience. Tamara L. Falicov is the inaugural dean of the UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences and author of Latin American Film Industries and The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film. Her research interests range from Latin American film festival research to assisting medical researchers in understanding language and culture in the treatment of Latinx patients and families.