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.

• Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Archival Turn, Chapter 1 - Practitioner talks: Piers Handling - The Red and the Black: The State and the Privateers, Different Approaches to Organizing Film Festivals, Chapter 2 - Antoine Damiens - Archival Research and Festival Studies' Historiographical Narratives, Chapter 3 - Jonathan Petrychyn - Film Festivals as Affective Economies: Methodologies for Following Buzz as Film Festival Effect, Chapter 4 - Practitioner talks: Juana Suarez - Film Preservation, Archives and Film Festivals in Latin America, Part 2: Decolonising Film Festival Studies: Practice-based/practice-led and collaborative methodologies, Chapter 5 - Estrella Sendra - Positionality, Immersive Methodology and Collaboration in Film Festival Research, Chapter 6 - Jasper Vanhaelemeesch - Immersion, Reflection, Triangulation: Festival Research Methods in Small and Precarious Cinemas, Chapter 7 - Practitioner talks: Jonathan Ali - Providing Needed Space for Caribbean and Diaspora Filmmakers in Miami, Chapter 8 - Rachel Johnson - On Studying Film Festivals and Migration: Borderlands and Beginnings, Chapter 9 - Alexandra-Maria Colta - Unraveling Curatorial Dilemmas: Practice-led and Auto-ethnography in the Study of Human Rights Film Festivals, Part 3: Post-Covid 19 and Film Festival Studies, Chapter 10 - Practitioner talks: Maria Delgado - Programming under Covid: London Film Festival 2020, Chapter 11 - Ger Zielinski - Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies: A Multidisciplinary Subfield and the Environmentalist Turn, Chapter 12 - Practitioner talks: Hebe Tabachnik - Festivals Must Not Only Nurture Audiences: They Must Create Them Too, Chapter 13 - Dorota Ostrowska - Tell me why you care? Film Festival Cultures, Ethics and Aesthetics of Care, Chapter 14 - Practitioner talks: Jim Kolmar - Film Festivals in the Time of Covid-19 - A Programmer's Perspective, Part 4: Data Visualization and Film Festival Research and Practice, Chapter 15 - Skadi Loist - Studying Film Circulation: Moving Film Festival Research to an Evidence-Based, Global Perspective, Chapter 16 - Aida Vallejo & María Paz Peirano - From the Field to the Data-base: Combining Methods in Film Festival Research, Chapter 17 - Brendan Kredell - Independent Film and the US Festival Circuit, Bibliography, Index.