cultural diversity

Peripheral or not? Cinema of small countries in the programming of international film festivals

Despite the increasing production capacities of small countries, their films struggle to reach international audiences. Festivals could help these productions achieve global exposure and secure distribution deals. Building on research on …

Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit: Skewed toward the large and wealthy, but small countries can beat the odds

This study analyzes how economic, demographic, and geographic factors predict the representation of different countries in the global film festival circuit. It relies on the combination of several open-access databases, including festival programming …

Quantifying the global film festival circuit: Networks, diversity, and public value creation

Film festivals are a key component in the global film industry in terms of trendsetting, publicity, trade, and collaboration. We present an unprecedented analysis of the international film festival circuit, which has so far remained relatively …

Movies in Transit: The Diversity of Globally Distributed Film Content

A talk about cultural and gender diversity in internaitonal cinema programming.

Programming Foreign Films: Analysing Cultural Diversity in the Global Exhibition Sector

A talk about differences in the levels of cultural diversity between small and large cinemas internationally.

Feature film diversity on Australian cinema screens: Implications for cultural diversity studies using big data

Like in much of the world, cinema screens in Australia are dominated by feature films from the US. Drawing on the Kinomatics Global Showtime Dataset, a big cultural dataset of cinema screenings, this chapter considers the diversity of films screened …