JASS 415: Film Festival Programming

Course Description

How do cultural works find audiences? How does, say, a film made on a shoestring budget make its way onto the front page of the New York Times online, or onto Netflix where it will be viewed by thousands? Although there is no single path for any cultural work to reach an audience, festivals have increasingly become an important first step on that path.
This course provides a practical perspective on strategies for programming film in a festival context. You will engage in cataloguing, evaluating, and contextualizing films that you solicit and that which practitioners submit for consideration. The course culminates in the curation of a film festival that will be showcased on campus. (W).