Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1

Aida Vallejo is Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.Ezra Winton is a Visiting Scholar at the ReImagining Value Action Lab at Lakehead University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: Documentary Film Festivals; Aida Vallejo and Ezra Winton.- 2. Defining Documentary in the Festival Circuit: A Conversation with Bill Nichols; Aida Vallejo.- Part I: Research and Methods.- 3. Film Festival Research Workshops: Debates on Methodology; Skadi Loist.- 4. The Data-driven Festival: Recordkeeping and Archival Practices; Heather L. Barnes.- Part II.  Histories and Origins.- 5. The Rise of Documentary Festivals: A Historical Approach; Aida Vallejo.- 6. The Film Festival as a Vehicle for Memory Officialization: The Afterlife of WWII in the Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival, 1954–2004; Dunja Jelenkovic.- 7. Forging a Cultural Elite: Nyon and the Age of Programmers; Christian Jungen.- 8. Finding a Position on the Global Map of Film Festivals: The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival; Eija Niskanen.- Part III:  Politics and Policies.- 9. The Independent and Underground Film Festival: The Case of DOChina; Tit Leung Cheung.- 10. Mainstreaming Documentary and Activism at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival; Ezra Winton.- 11. The Development of Documentary Film Festivals in India: A Small-media Phenomenon; Giulia Battaglia.- 12. Found in Translation: Film Festivals, Documentary, and the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity; Antía López-Gómez, Aida Vallejo, María Soliña Barreiro, and Amanda Paz Alencar.