FLEFF FESTIVALS IN FOCUS: UNPACKING THE RESETS OF FESTIVALS AND THEATRICAL RUNS Wed Feb 15

By Patricia Zimmermann, February 14, 2023

Film festival directors and festival team members meet theatrical film exhibitors to go behind the scenes

cinemapolis

Wednesday February 15
7-8:30 p.m.
Park Auditorium
IN PERSON (one guest appearing on Zoom)

Film festivals, art cinemas, and theatrical exhibitors now grapple with “the Great Reset.” Transnational media industries and film distribution infrastructures, companies, and rollouts have entered the great unknown about the in-theater market and attendance during continuing pandemic. It's an industrial upheaval of monumental proportions.

Speakers

Welcome:    
Claire Gleitman, Dean, School of Humanities and Sciences

Moderator:  
Brett Bossard, Executive Director of Alumni and Family Engagement, Ithaca College

Speakers:    
Kate Donohue, Executive Director, Cinemapolis

Enrique Gonzalez-Conty, Associate Professor of Spanish, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Director, Cine con Cultura Film Festiva

Michael Richardson, Professor of German, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
and Program Director, BA in Screen Cultures

Mike Steinberg, Executive Director, International Wildlife Film Festival and Roxy Theater (Missoula, MT)

Bios and more information:

https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival/park-communications-forum-festivals-focus-february-1-march-1/unpacking-resets-festivals-and-theatrical-runs-february-15

FLEFF:  A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Patricia Rodden Zimmermann at patty@ithaca.edu or 607 274 4334. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.