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Course: 2025/2026

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Bachelor in Film, Television and Media Studies (Study Plan 2017) (Plan: 382 - Estudio: 211)


Coordinating teacher: FERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ LABAYEN, MIGUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
-Moving image history
Objectives
1. Historical and practical knowledge of film festivals. 2. Ability to analyze the different categories and modalities of film festivals. 3. Ability to understand and analyze the economic, cultural, and aesthetic dynamics of film festivals on a local, national, and global scale.
Learning Outcomes
LEARNING OUTCOMES 1.To have acquired advanced knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of the working methodology in the field of audiovisual communication, with a depth that reaches the forefront of knowledge. 3.To have the capacity to collect and interpret data and information on which to base their conclusions including, when necessary and relevant, reflection on social, cultural, scientific or ethical issues in the field of audiovisual media 6.To be able to identify their own training needs in their field of study and work or professional environment and to organize their own learning with a BASIC COMPETENCES 1.Students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education, and is usually at a level that, while relying on advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the cutting edge of their field of study GENERAL COMPETENCES 3.To know in a theoretical-practical way the organizational structures in the field of visual and sound communication, as well as their evolution and management over time. 4.To have the capacity to critically perceive the audiovisual landscape offered by the communicative universe that surrounds us, considering the iconic messages as the fruit of a social collective, product of the socio-political, economic and cultural conditions of a given historical period. 6.To have the ability to define and develop topics of research or innovative personal creation that can contribute to the knowledge or development of audiovisual languages or their interpretation. SPECIFIC COMPETENCES 3.To acquire analytical and critical capacity in relation to the image and the media audiovisual context, by means of the knowledge of theories, forms, processes and tendencies of media communication and the audiovisual communication. 5.To understand and to identify the communicative and narrative models of the audiovisual media and their relationship with society and culture, considering the fundamental rights and equality between men and women, the principles of equal opportunities, and the values of a culture of peace and social coexistence in democracy.
Description of contents: programme
1: HISTORY AND THEORY 1) Introduction: Film festivals: origins and aims 2) The film festival as a discourse: -Film festivals as art -Film festivals as industry -Film festivals as entertainment 3) Typology of film festivals. Exhibition and legitimation of film production in the global society: - A-list film festivals -Specialized film festivals -Film festivals in Spain 2: STURCTURES 4) The festival as an agora -Selection and sections -Galas, awards and juries -Spectators and public opinion 5) The festival as mediator -Production and direction of film festivals: editorial lines (politics) -The programmer: canons and anti-canons -The star: promoting cinema 6) Geopolitics of film festivals -Geogrpahies of the festivals -City branding -Local communities and transnational networks -The festival as a market -The festival as a producer 3: CASE STUDIES 7) 'A'-LIST FILM FESTIVALS -The axis Cannes-Venice-Berlin and beyond (Locarno, Mar del Plata¿) -San Sebastián 8) Specialized film festivals -The festival as a creator of discourses: Sundance and ¿indie¿ cinema -Genre festivals, modes and formats: horror, documentary, experimental, animation, short film festivals -Festivals and politics: women and queer film festivals -Film festivals and national cinemas 9) Film festivals in Spain -Cartography and typology -Funding and organization -Examples
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • BOSNA, Peter. Film Programming: Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives. Wallflower. 2015
  • DE VALCK, Marijke. Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press. 2007
  • DE VALCK, Marijke; KREDELL, Brendan y LOST, Skadi (eds.). . Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice.. Routledge. . 2016
  • IORDANOVA, Dina (ed.). . The film festival reader. St. Andrews Film Studies. 2013
  • RUOFF, Jeffrey (ed.). . Coming soon to a festival near you: programming film festivals. St. Andrews Film Studies. 2012
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Additional Bibliography
  • DE VALCK, Marijke & DAMIENS, Antoine (eds.). Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023
  • FISCHER, Alex. . Sustainable projections: concepts in film festival management. St. Andrews Film Studies.. 2013
  • HING-YUK WONG, Cindy. . Film festivals. Culture, people, and power on the global screen.. Rutgers University Press. 2011
  • IORDANOVA, Dina y CHEUNG, Ruby (eds.). . Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film festivals and East Asia. . St. Andrews Film Studies. 2011
  • IORDANOVA, Dina y RHYNE, Ragan Rhyne (eds.). . Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit. St. Andrews Film Studies. 2009
  • IORDANOVA, Dina y TORCHIN, Leshu (eds.). . Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film festivals and activism.. St. Andrews Film Studies. 2012
  • MARLOW-MANN, Alex. . Film Festival Yearbook 5: Archival film festivals. St. Andrews Film Studies. . 2013
  • RICHARDS, Stuart. The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. 2017
  • SALAZKINA, Masha. World Socialist CInema. Alliances, Affinities and Solidarities in the Global Cold War. University of California Press. 2023
  • TUDURI, José Luis. . San Sebastián. Un festival, una historia (1953-1966). . Filmoteca Vasca. . 1989
  • TURAN, Kenneth.. Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made. University of California Press. 2002
  • VALLEJO, Aida & WINTON, Ezra (eds.). Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1: Methods, History, Politics. Palgrave. 2020
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