I believe that over the course of the pre-production and running of the New Normal International Film Festival, we achieved many successes during our learning of how to conceive and mount a film festival. One of the festival’s successes that was significant to me personally, was the increase of engagement with the social media pages, […]

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The New Normal International Film Festival is not the film festival I expected to be producing when I began this class, ‘The Festival Experience’. However, the class has stayed true to its name, in that I have definitely learnt a lot about what is involved in running a successful film festival, as well as the […]

The Human Rights & Arts Film Festival presenting ‘humankind’ online is a very relevant film festival to be transitioning online at this time. Currently, many people are anxious, and unsure of what the future holds. A festival with principles such as community, perspective and resilience such as this one is very important to be engaging […]

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s ‘spaces’ project has arisen due to the unprecedented times we currently find ourselves in. Similarly, the New Normal International Film Festival has also arisen to due these current times. Just like TIFF, NNIFF has asked filmmakers to submit films, keeping the at-home quarantine and social distancing rules in place. I […]

The Sydney film festival has given ‘the festival experience’ a new meaning with their global film festival, ‘we are one’. They have achieved this by partnering with a large number of other film festivals globally, to create a unique online experience for its audience, run on YouTube. “Audiences will get a peek into different cultures”. […]

Ben Croll’s article published on Variety, ‘Visions du Reel Artistic Director on Reimagining the Festival as a Virtual Event’ highlights the common struggle of film festival directors determining how they will proceed with their event with the current circumstances. “From a psychological perspective, cancelling the event would have been very, very hard.” Here, Croll tells […]

The Instagram live-stream discussion between Julia Sinkevych and Karel Och has highlighted some of the main struggles film festivals are currently facing in this time of unprecedented events. The discussion highlighted issues that include “foreigners can come to the festival but online you’re limiting yourself unless you’re in the Czech Republic or the Ukraine.” (Referring […]

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From reading “Setting Up A Human Rights Film Festival” (Pages 30, 72), I have gathered that when planning a film festival, when deciding on the topic, main areas of focus can be decided upon then broken down into smaller focus areas. When this is done, films that relate to the overarching topic are able to […]