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Title Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds
Full text https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38609/1/TowardDecolonizedFilmFestivalWorlds.pdf
Date 2023
Author(s) Dovey, Lindiwe; Sendra Fernandez, Estrella
Contributor(s) de Valck, Marijke; Damiens, Antoine
Abstract This chapter is in part a manifesto and in part an engagement with the thinking and practice already re-shaping film festivals in this era of decolonization and Covid-19. We take as a starting point and analyze the provocative docu-fiction film titled Film Festival Film (dir. Perivi Katjavivi and Mpumelelo Mcata, 2019, South Africa) which raises myriad, difficult, and enduring questions about film festivals and contemporary film culture. Reading the provocations of this film alongside our own respective research into and work with film festivals and film curation (mostly in relation to African filmmaking), we then put ourselves into conversation with 22 film festival curators and filmmakers around the world who have shared their experiences with us, as well as with recent decolonial theorizing (by, e.g., Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Mignolo and Walsh). The chapter grapples with questions such as what does decolonization mean in relation to contemporary film culture? What would decolonized film festival worlds look like? And what have film practitioners learned from their work during the Covid-19 pandemic that might help us to collectively realize those worlds? In this way, we try to chart the significant work being done by many people to build more inclusive, sustainable, decolonized film cultures.
Language en
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Relation https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38609/; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3_14; 10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3_14
Type of publication Book Chapters; NonPeerReviewed
Format text
Rights cc_by_4
Identifier Dovey, Lindiwe and Sendra Fernandez, Estrella (2023) 'Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds.' In: de Valck, Marijke and Damiens, Antoine, (eds.), Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After. Cheltenham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 269-289. (Framing Film Festivals)
Repository London - SOAS, University of London
Added to C-A: 2023-01-18;10:11:38