Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Marijke de Valck is Associate Professor of film and media studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands, where she co-directs the master program in film and television cultures. Her research deals with film festivals, transnational media cultures, media industries, and art cinema. Her publications include Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (2007), the co-edited Film Festival: History, Theory, Method, Praxis (2016) and Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience (2020). She is co-founder of the Film Festival Research Network, co-editor of Palgrave’s Framing Film Festivals series and co-editor of the festivals review section in NECSUS.Antoine Damiens is a Research Associate at York University, Toronto, where they recently completed a MITACs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research examines the politics and history of film festivals, queer film/video, and minoritized archives. Their first book, LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness, was published in 2020. Antoine Damiens co-edits, with Marijke de Valck, the Film Festival Reviews section in NECSUS.

• Chapter ​1: What Happens When Festivals Can’t Happen?.- Part I: Contaminated Circuits: Covid-19 and the Festival Ecosystem.- Chapter 2: Stopping the Flow: Film Circulation in the Festival Ecosystem at a Moment of Disruption.- Chapter 3: Scarcity, Ubiquity, and the Film Festival After Covid.- Chapter 4: Locating Buzz and Liveness: The Role of Geoblocking and Co-presence in Virtual Film Festivals.- Chapter 5: Film Festivals on the Small Screen: Audiences, Domestic Space, and Everyday Media.- Chapter 6: Finding Allies in Pandemic Times: Documentary Film Festivals and Streaming Platforms.- Chapter 7: Chilean Film Festivals and Local Audiences: Going Online?.- Part II: Experimenting on the Frontlines: Innovative Responses to the Crisis.- Chapter 8: Vidéo de Femmes Dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times Under Covid.- Chapter 9: Curating Our Own Space: A Conversation on Online Queer Film Exhibition and Adult Queer Cinema.- Chapter 10: Cinephilia, Publics, Cinegoraphilia: Surveying the ShortTerm Effects of Covid-19 on Community-Based Festivals in Toronto.- Chapter 11: Film Festivals in Taiwan: Lurking on the Periphery.- Chapter 12: Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector.- Chapter 13: Curating as Care: La Semaine de la Critique and the Marrakech International Film Festival in the Age of Covid-19.- Part III: Never Waste a Good Crisis: (Re)imagining Festivals After the Pandemic.- Chapter 14: Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds.- Chapter 15: Festivals, Covid-19, and the Crisis of Archiving.- Chapter 16: Greening Film Festivals.