Reflecting on my experience of having mounted a film festival from scratch, my knowledge on organising and understanding what constitutes as film festival culture has significantly increased. The Séance International Film Festival (SIFF) is something that I am very proud to of participated in and is an experience that I will cherish throughout my future endeavours. Conceiving and mounting SIFF was a huge accomplishment and relied heavily on teamwork to…
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Reflect on your contribution to the organisation and pre-production of the studio’s festival(s) – individually, and in collaboration with your classmates and festival team colleagues during, and outside of, class times. Prior to selecting this studio, reading the prompt made me question where you would even begin to conceive a film festival, and what actually constitutes as film festival culture. However, reflecting on my overall experience and the knowledge I have…
Week 11: What were the key insights you gained from – One or more film festivals’ programs (booklets) or websites that you’ve used – or can now use – as references to inform your contribution towards launching SIFF. Whilst attending our second field trip in week 3 to search for film festive activity in Melbourne’s CBD, we came across the Kino Cinema at Collins Place which at the time was…
Week 10: What were the key insights you gained from – the Media Factory websites documenting the 2019 and 2021 Festival Experience film festivals Reflecting on the 2019 Festival Experience studio, it was very exciting to observe how the students were able to create a film festival from scratch that had the privilege of being held onsite. As first-time festival makers, I was very impressed by the teams overall production process…
Week 8: What were the key insights you gained from – the readings from week 7 & week 8, and discussions of them in class on Friday 29 April. This week we had attended class online via zoom where we began preparing for our call of submissions post to go live. We also had in-depth discussions regarding this week’s readings and related them back to each of our specific departments. In particular, my…
Week 7: What were the key insights you gained from – the production of a preliminary budget on Wed 13 April Reflecting on this week’s class, I developed a new perspective and insight relative to the production and making of our film festival. That is, establishing a budget and gaining an understanding on the importance of financing. Here, it became clear that developing a budget would help our team to keep…
Week 6: What were the key insights you gained from – the video essay Screening Room: on digital film festivals and one or more of the week 6 Readings. In response to the video essay and the readings assigned for this week, I chose to engage with the article by Meza (2021) which had a very positive outlook on film festivals taking place on an online platform. The reading highlighted how online…
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What were the key insights you gained from one or both of Cerise Howard’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival reports from Senses of Cinema and from one or both of Jessica Kiang’s Berlinale festival reports regarding what made a pleasurable, or unsatisfactory, film festival experience for the reporter? After reading both Cerise Howard’s and Jessica Kiang’s film festival reports, a key insight that I have gained are the ways in which festivals can…
