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 …
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 …
Audiovisual news is a critical cultural phenomenon that has been influencing audience worldviews for more than a hundred years. To understand historical trends in multimodal audiovisual news, we need to explore them longitudinally using large sets of …
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 …
An industry presentation of the results of recent research report
A Wider Lens is the first comprehensive examination of the workforce, the work model, and the work culture, that constitute Australian film and television camera departments. The study pays particular attention to how social characteristics, such as …
A conference paper discussing the screen media industry network of the Nordic-Baltic region
Studies of gender inequality in film industries have noted the persistence of male domination in creative roles (usually defined as director, producer, writer) and the slow pace of reform. Typical policy remedies are premised on aggregate counts of …
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 …