Expanding Film Festival Studies

The Nature and Scope of Festival Studies

The nature and scope of festival studies is examined by compiling and analyzing a large-scale literature review of 423 research articles published in the English-language scholarly press. These have been annotated and their themes classified by reference to a pre-determined framework. Identification and discussion of three major discourses was enabled by this method, namely the roles, meanings ...

Action Research: The National Medical Ethics Film and Photo Festival; an Experience Report

The National Medical Ethics Film & Photo Festival was held in February 2020 and ended with the registration of 487 works which 80 films and 36 photographs of them were finally selected and peer reviewed. The present article focuses on the films of this festival and tries to explain the experience of attracting, selecting, and judging films through the design and holding a festival by using acti...

Like Solving a Giant Puzzle: Supporting Collaborative Scheduling at a Film Festival

In collaborative scheduling tasks, large surfaces are often crucial. Pin&Play is a novel technology that combines physical and digital information on an interactive pin-board, which can improve collaborative scheduling. In order to explore this and to develop a prototype, we conducted observations of the scheduling of a film festival program. We found that several tasks in the scheduling are de...

Averaging and Set-Size Effects in Selecting Groups of Movies for a Film Festival

Festival speaks Italian!

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...