Festival director's report
Sydney underground film festival – a community of cinema junkies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20241298 |
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| Authors | Stefan Popescu, Stefan Octavian Popescu (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-210 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies In Australasian Cinema (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-3175 • E-ISSN: 1750-3183 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17503175.2015.1058649 |
| OpenAlex | W2174583392 |
| Language | EN |
The Sydney Underground Film Festival (commonly known as SUFF) was conceived by Katherine Berger and myself, with the inaugural festival taking place in 2007. How do you go about building a festival of marginal cinema in today's cinematic climate? What strategies did we use to develop our community and audience? What was the significance of the partnerships we formed across the film, education and business sectors to form and engage the local community through the exhibition of daring, experimental and provocative cinema? What is the importance of extra-filmic events – talks and so on – at our festival? What kinds of non-traditional methods have we used in festival organization, financing and programming, and what auxiliary activities in the realm of film distribution have we ventured into? And has SUFF managed to shift film culture in Sydney in the way that we would like to? This brief report opens up on these issues and more, sharing our experiences with organizing and running the SUFF over the last seven years
Archaeology · Art · Exhibition · Film festival · Media studies · Movie theater · Realm · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Museology
| Highly cited | No |
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