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“You’re curating for the filmmakers and audience, not for yourself or the festival”: Thierry Jobin on Festivals, Cultural Memory, and the Human Side of Curation
The Fribourg International Film Festival Artistic Director Reflects on Audience-Centred Programming, Political Curation, and Why Festivals Must Resist Becoming Cultural Algorithms At a time when…
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Beyond Gatekeeping: Rowan Woods on Curation, Risk, and the Future of Screen Storytelling
From festivals to streaming platforms, Woods reflects on why context, audience intelligence, and creative risk still matter in a saturated screen culture At a time…
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Breaking the Pattern: Bastian Meiresonne on Programming, Power, and the Politics of Film Circulation
How films travel—and why most don’t it—is not a mystery. It’s a system. Before a film reaches an audience, it has already passed through a…
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Against the Default Setting
Jeremy Chua shares his perspectives on producing films, shaping SGIFF, and why festivals remain vital as spaces of discovery, emphasising his core ideas for readers…
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More Than a Grant
Tamara Tatishvili on risk, artistic freedom, and the fragility of development support What allows a film to begin before the world has decided it matters?…
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Triin Tramberg on leading PÖFF through a changing festival landscape
In conversation with Kinopear, the new Tallinn Black Nights artistic director discusses bold cinema, audience strategy, geopolitical complexity and the pressures reshaping festival leadership.
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The Fribourg International Film Festival Artistic Director Reflects on Audience-Centred Programming, Political Curation, and Why Festivals Must Resist Becoming Cultural Algorithms At a time when…
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From festivals to streaming platforms, Woods reflects on why context, audience intelligence, and creative risk still matter in a saturated screen culture At a time…
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Breaking the Pattern: Bastian Meiresonne on Programming, Power, and the Politics of Film Circulation
How films travel—and why most don’t it—is not a mystery. It’s a system. Before a film reaches an audience, it has already passed through a…
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