Teaching Workshop: Organizing Film Festival and Theme Screenings

The workshop aims to provide students with cultural politics, methods, and practices concerning the organization and management of events in the field of cinema. Each international festival possesses its own identity, which will be discussed in the first part of the workshop, comparing Cannes format with Locarno, Venice, Toronto and Turin. Besides the understanding of the principles of programming, the workshop will aim to raise awareness of the professional roles implied in those events, and in particular the artistic direction and the selection committee. The last part of the workshop, in which students will work in groups, will deal with the role of communication in the event construction, from the graphic identity to the promotional writings.

The workshop aims to develop the following skills:

Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate

Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.

Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.