The Film Festival Cottbus: 21 this year! One might then pause to consider, with the festival attaining maturity (if we were to arbitrarily decide that 21 is, as we do with humans, a marker of such): does its mission still hold up to scratch? Much as queer film festivals are given every few years to [...]
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Cerise Howard's involvement with Senses of Cinema dates back to 2001; back in the day, she laid out more articles for Senses than you've had hot dinners. These days, it's all about the writing. And the gadding about. She's very fond of the gadding about, and is almost as partial to it, in fact, as to enjoying A Little Lie Down.
Articles by Cerise Howard:
For two years running I’ve attended the Fribourg International Film Festival. The timing of my engagements with the festival has been propitious; it strikes me that the FIFF is a festival just now coming into its own. In 2011 it applied only a few fine tunings to the many renovations to its core mission effected [...]
To retain only the word cinema, without an adjective. – Edouard Waintrop, Director of the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) (1) This pocket manifesto from Director of FIFFs 22 through to 24 ended a column published in the venerable germanophone print film journal, Filmbulletin, just ahead of the 2010 festival. To elucidate the considerable significance [...]
A Quick Backgrounder, For Those Who Came in Late With its advent smack-bang on the first year of a new millennium, Mezipatra, the Czech Republic’s queer film festival and, by a considerable margin, its largest GLBTIQ community event, continues to demonstrate a timeliness in its sense of occasion. In 2009 it marked, and heartily celebrated, [...]
Who’d a thunk it? All of a sudden the Persian Gulf is host to a slew of film festivals brimming with internationalist, top-tier ambition and seemingly mad keen to hothouse a vibrant homegrown film culture. The granddaddy of them all, the Dubai International Film Festival, debuted only as far back as 2004. This year has [...]
18-29 March 2009 (1) In 2009, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) can – and does – still boast of being the second biggest film festival in Melbourne, quite an accomplishment in a city where, barring a summery spell hanging over from Xmas/New Year, there is scarcely a day when there isn’t at least one [...]
Třeboň 1-4 May 2009 Teplice 7-10 May 2009 My second AniFest, after my first sally to the Czech Republic and its proliferative animation festival just last year (1), found me in the privileged position of representing not just Senses of Cinema, for whom I had again pledged to cover the festival, but also the festival [...]
7–13 May 2008 Such a hive of industry was the seventh AniFest, an annual international competitive festival – and much more besides – held in the small, picturesque South Bohemian town of Třeboň. For atop the festival’s core business, its several well-contested competition strands, AniFest 2008 was a-glut with retrospective screenings, curated programs, technology showcases, [...]
26 July – 13 August, 2006 Excepting an Opening Night publicity coup, of which, more below, the Melbourne International Film Festival’s last year with James Hewison as Executive Director unfurled much as has been its wont during its six years under his auspice with all the familiar strengths and weaknesses in evidence. The strengths, chiefly, [...]
March 2–12, 2006 The 2006 Commonwealth Games’ wholesale usurpation of Melbourne events calendars impacted upon the scheduling of this year’s MQFF, bringing it forward a week and into a curious synchronicity with the 78th Academy Awards, broadcast here March 6th, five days into the festival. Lest anyone should have forgotten, this year’s Oscars accoladed the [...]
Richard Wolstencroft is the director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, aka MUFF, commencing its second annual season in 2001 from July 5-15, and is the director of the sometimes lambasted, othertimes piecemeally praised, festival-launching feature film Pearls Before Swine (1999). Wolstencroft also directed the underseen Tottie Goldsmith vehicle Intruder (1993) and co-directed the cult [...]
