FAV180 Film Festivals - Theory And Practice

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Viktor Palák (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Thursday 14:10–17:25 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
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Course objectives
The graduate of the course will gain complex knowledge about the typology, history as well as organization of film festivals.
Syllabus
  • Every week in a year sees a film festival taking place somewhere in the world. Each weekend a more locally oriented film gathering focuses on a particular theme. Most countries with a working film industry have their national festival, many cinematographies count on the export of films to foreign festivals, which form a crucial distributional circuit for these films.
  • The aim of the course is to introduce the typology of film festivals on examples of Czech events. Their organization and thus job possibilities for graduates will also be in focus.
  • Each lecture will be devoted to a selected festival or a particular related topic. Film events will be represented by guest tutors, mostly festival directors.
  • The course will introduce Karlovy Vary IFF („A“-list festival), Febiofest (international festival), Zlín IFF for Children and Youth, Summer Film School (more historically oriented event), Mezipatra Queer Film festival, International Documentary Film festival Jihlava, One World (human rights FF), Brno 16 (short film festival). Guest lecturers will also include a journalist with experiences from major foreign film festivals and a representative of an institution closely cooperating with film festivals.
Literature
  • TURAN, Kenneth. Sundance to Sarajevo : film festivals and the world they made. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, x, 180. ISBN 0520218671. info
Teaching methods
The lectures will take place on these dates: 24th February, 3rd, 10th and 24th March, 7th and 21st Apríl and 5th May. Guests for each week will be specified in advance by email.
Assessment methods
The course will conclude with a test based on obligatory readings as well as lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017.
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