Vejune Zemaityte

Biographic Data

ID136369
NAMEVejune Zemaityte
GIVEN NAMESVejune
FAMILY NAMEZemaityte
SIGNATUREZEMAITYTE V
AFFILIATIONSTallinn University
ORCID0000-0001-9714-7903
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit

    Open AccessAndres Karjus, Vejune ZemaityteARTICLEJournal of Cultural Economics2025

    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 information from the Cinando platform of the Cannes Film Market. The dataset consists of over 20,000 unique films from almost 600 festivals across the world over a decade, a total of more than 30,000…

  • Peripheral or not? Cinema of small countries in the programming of international film festivals

    Open AccessVejune Zemaityte, Ulrike Rohn et al.ARTICLECultural Trends2025References: 6

  • A framework for the analysis of historical newsreels

    Open AccessMila Oiva, Ksenia Mukhina et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    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 data. Despite promising developments in film history, computational video analysis, and other relevant fields, current research streams have limitations related to the scope of data used, the systema…

  • She Must Be Seeing Things! Gender disparity in camera department networks

    Open AccessPete Jones, Deb Verhoeven et al.ARTICLESocial Networks2023

  • Controlling for openness in the male-dominated collaborative networks of the global film industry

    Open AccessDeb Verhoeven, Katarzyna Musial et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2020

    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 women as a proportion of overall industry participation. Network science offers an alternative way of identifying and proposing change mechanisms, as it puts emphasis on relationships instead of indivi…

  • Re-Distributing Gender in the Global Film Industry

    Open AccessDeb Verhoeven, Bronwyn Coate et al.ARTICLEMedia Industries2019

    This article draws on a big cultural dataset of over 130 million global screen times to consider the impact that the gender of a film's director has on the screening prevalence and geographic spread of new release feature films at the cinema. We compare results based on film screenings between December 2012 and May 2015 across a set of forty countries including the United States, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and Brazil. This research…

  • Understanding the dynamics between the United States and Australian film markets

    Vejune Zemaityte, Deb Verhoeven et al.ARTICLEStudies In Australasian Cinema2018

    Australia has historically been an important market for American media exports. As far as film trade relations between the two countries go, there is an anecdotal perception that distributors follow a ‘10% rule’ to predict the popularity of Hollywood titles in Australia, expecting American films to earn around one-tenth of their domestic box office receipts when screened downunder. Nonetheless, as prevalent as this ‘rule’ has been in the industry…