While some autumn film festivals seemingly completely unaffected by the crisis are announcing their early-bird offers, among the film festivals with dates in spring and summer there is perplexity, pragmatism in the sense of cancelling the 2020 edition, activism with partial offers to meet the expectations of the financiers up to a courageous, visionary attitude to use the need of the hour for a test run of film festival concepts
Film festivals are the most important life events of the film scene. Industry internal meetings, contact exchange – films celebrate premieres and are awarded prizes for the further festival tour. What happens now with these events? Can a festival be postponed so easily? How are the festival workers* behind the festival doing? What measures have to be taken at the time of the curfew and what opportunities do they offer
As more and more distributors are shifting theatrical releases to VOD, film festivals are also looking for innovative ways to make their film programmes accessible online. One of the most far-reaching transformations is currently being planned by DOK Fest München with its concept DOK.fest München@home 2020 „Due to the current corona crisis and all official requirements, the 35th edition of DOK.fest München (May 6th to 17th) will not be able
A collection of IDFA films and new media projects can be watched online. 200 among them for free and about 500 more projects for a small fee, which goes directly to the filmmaker, distributor, or other rights holder of the film. The full collection can be found hereSome tips by the IDFA programmers-also for children films-are here to get
As Art House Convergence announced today several distributors have rallied to support their independent cinema partners and launch virtual movie theaters. During difficult times it has been amazing to witness the strength and generosity of our field. In partnership with Art House Convergence, Film Movement has debuted Film Movement Plus – Virtual Cinema, a virtual theatrical experience that will allow customers to purchase tickets to Corpus Christi, Zombi Child, The
Declaration of the AG FilmfestivalThere is hardly a festival in Europe that has not yet been affected by the Corona crisis. Some festivals have had to cancel their events at short notice, nobody can even begin to foresee the financial consequences. But those who work on a freelance basis or as service providers and are already the least secure are particularly affected. You can find the further explanation of the
As of March 15, 2020 many art house cinemas have made the difficult decision to temporarily close to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a novel coronavirus that causes respiratory illness. Art houses have taken this step in compliance with public health guidelines and in solidarity with their communities. In order to help navigate this rapidly evolving situation, Art House Convergence is updating its webpage daily. To facilitate resource reagrdingAdvocate for Arts Funding and
Film festivals have become an indispensable part of the culture and film industry, creating many new professions and highly qualified employment groups. Nevertheless, film festivals are often associated with low pay, exploitation and self-exploitation. The AG Festivalarbeit in ver.di would like to collect data by means of a survey of employees at German film festivals as explore the connections and, not least, honour good examples with a Fair Festival Award.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Berlinale, Carlo Chatrian, Karel Och and Eva Sangiorgi discussed with Academy President and filmmaker Jeanine Meerapfel and Andreas Kilb new ideas and future developments of international film festivals at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin (12.2.2020) . Access to the video recording here
According to a study by the psychologists Roland Thomaschke and Kerstin Fröber, which examined 21 feelings when watching films in the cinema or via VOD, 15 feelings were found to be experienced more strongly in the cinema. Fascination and sadness had the greatest effect, boredom alone was experienced more at home than in the cinema. Interview in German here