Hi Dina,
The best thing you could do to interest academics in this is get it moved back to August to coincide with the main Edinburgh Festival. I attended for 14 years and found it a great way to keep up with trends until it was shunted forwards two months, right into the middle of our busy marking period....
Best wishes,
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Subject: Edinburgh IFF 2012 programme available
Dear friends,
The programme of the 66th EDIFF is now available on-line at http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/
It features more than 140 films, of which the majority are premieres. Of particular interest to cinephiles are the retrospectives of Shinji Somai and Gregory La Cava, the panoramas on Phillippine cinema and Danish documentary, as well as the masterclasses with Japanese Shinja Tsukamoto and Chinese documentarian Wang Bing (both Tsukamoto and Wang Bing will attend and engage with audiences).
There is also much more to the programme, please check it out online.
It seems Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara has managed to put the festival back on track - at least this is the initial reaction of the critics, who maligned last year's edition (I re-post here the coverage of the programme given by The Scotsman yesterday, of course there was also coverage in all major British news media, along the same lines).
I am serving on the Board of Trustees for the Festival and am really hopeful to see the festival restored to its former glory.
Prof. Dina Iordanova
Provost, St. Leonard's College
University of St. Andrews
The Scotsman, 30 May 2012
<http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle>
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Edinburgh International Film Festival: our critic's first reaction
By Alistair Harkness
Published on Wednesday 30 May 2012 18:09
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival<http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/film/edinburgh-international-film-festival-our-critic-s-first-reaction-1-2326573> already feels like a much bolder and more focused event than last year's rushed and sloppily put together programme.
That can almost certainly be put down to the guiding hand of new artistic director Chris Fujiwara<http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/edinburgh-film-festival-back-from-the-brink-1-2099223>, who sets out his stall in this year's brochure<http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk> with a clear-headed statement of intent that puts the emphasis back on the artistic value of cinema as opposed to the gibberish management speak that blighted James Mulligan's brief tenure in the post.
That's certainly reflected in the choice of films announced this morning. Though the previously announced opening and closing gala premieres of William Friedkin's Killer Joe and Pixar's Brave will respectively provide some edginess and escapism, a first glance at the rest of what's on offer suggests a provocative mix of movies designedto broaden audience horizons rather than simply serve up big name previews or films that have already had the approbation of other major film festivals<http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/film/edinburgh-international-film-festival-our-critic-s-first-reaction-1-2326573>.
Of course, detractors may view that as a continuing sign of Edinburgh's diminished status in an overcrowded international festival scene, but at this stage I'd rather view it as being indicative of a strong curatorial vision.
Which isn't to say there are no big talking point films. James Marsh - whose documentaries Man on Wire and Project Nim have been EIFF highlights in years past - returns with his excellent looking, Clive Owen-starring IRA thriller Shadow Dancer, as does The Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sánchez, who will be premiering his new horror film<http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/film/edinburgh-international-film-festival-our-critic-s-first-reaction-1-2326573> Lovely Molly.
There's a return to the big screen for Robert Carlyle too courtesy of California Solo, which finds the Glaswegian actor playing an ex-Britpop star living in exile in LA (Carlyle will be in Edinburgh to discuss his career in an onstage interview).
Elsewhere, though, EIFF seems intent on breaking open less well established talents and identifying emerging trends and filmmaking hotspots. There's a strand dedicated to the newwave of filmmakers emerging from the Philippines, as well as one collectively dedicated to those from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
Perhaps reflective Fujiwara's previous Tokyo base, Japanese films feature prominently, among them the first complete international retrospective of Shinji Somai, as well as Japanese shockmeister Shimya Tsukamoto's latest Kotoko, and three films<http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/film/edinburgh-international-film-festival-our-critic-s-first-reaction-1-2326573> dealing in different ways with the devastation of last year's tsunami (Fukushima: Memories of a Lost Landscape, Tokyo Drifter and Nuclear Nation).
Fujiwara's smart decision to reinstate the Michael Powell award seems to have resulted in a stronger line-up of British films too, with big things expected from the aforementioned Shadow Dancer as well as Berberian Sound Studio, the new Italian horror-themed film from acclaimed director Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga).
The Michael Powell Award will be bolstered by an international competition strand and, adding to the diversity, is the usual round of special screenings (including Harmony Korine's new art project The Fourth Dimension, starring Val Kilmer), genre films<http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/film/edinburgh-international-film-festival-our-critic-s-first-reaction-1-2326573> (Nordic noir gets a shout-out with the latest Jo Nesbo adaptation Jackpot), and crazy sounding cult movies, the best of which look set to be Peter Chan's audacious martial arts homage Dragon and horror anthology V/H/S.
As with all festivals, other gems (and disasters) will reveal themselves as the event gets underway, but for the moment, things at least seem back on track. Hopefully that will prove to be the case come 20 June.
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