Conferência e Workshop sobre o mercado dos festivais de Cinema - Tamara Falicov

Em Setembro iremos receber Tamara Falicov para um evento de dois dias sobre o circuito dos festivais de cinema e as suas especifidades. Este evento vai requerer inscrição obrigatória, mais informações brevemente.

Tamara Falicov is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is Interim Associate Dean for Research in the Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded a Docking Young Faculty Fellowship for mid-career scholars at KU (2013-2016) and served as Chair of Film and Media Studies from 2009-2015.

Professor Falicov’s specialty is the study of Latin American film industries. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Argentina, the result of which is the book The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (London: Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2007) which was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2008.

Her book on Latin American film industries (British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming (2018).

Professor Falicov has written multiple essays on co-productions, the cultural politics of Programa Ibermedia, Cine en construccion (Films in Progress) and the importance of European film funds such as Hubert Bals Fund and World Cinema Fund which support Global South filmmakers.

Two essays on film festival research have been published in anthologies for Wiley-Blackwell (Companion to Contemporary Latin American Film) and Routledge (Companion to Latin American Cinema). Professor Falicov is the co-editor of the book series Framing Film Festivals for Palgrave Macmillan with Marijke de Valck (University of Utrecht, Netherlands).

In addition to her Fulbright award, she was the recipient of an NEH Summer Stipend and was funded by NEH to attend a Summer University Teacher’s Institute in São Paulo, Brazil.