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2025 unit information
Nil
ALC216, AMC236
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week
1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 2-hour online seminar per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
Film festivals are of increasing importance to filmmakers, industry professionals, audiences, and scholars alike. Emerging over 70-years ago to drive the global distribution of film, festivals now play a pivotal role in our understanding of local and international screen culture. Festivals also inform our appreciation of the creative industries economy. This unit offers a critical introduction to film festivals today. It explores major international festivals (such as the Berlinale, Cannes, Venice, and the Sundance Film Festival) and also addresses smaller and alternative festival circuits such as identity-based, genre, web, and retrospective film festivals in Australia and across the world. Topics we will explore include: different types of film festivals, festival hierarchies and circuits and the global festival landscape, festival programming and organisation, issues of film production, distribution and exhibition, the relationship between festivals, economies and cities, festivals and cultural capital, and the future of festivals.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Explain the historical and contemporary contexts and functions of local and international film festivals
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO8: Global citizenship
Evaluate the topics and issues established in film festival studies and the study of screen culture
GLO4: Critical thinking
Develop and plan a film festival program including themes, sections, logistics, and audience identification
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO6: Self-management
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
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