Very glad that you find expcinema.com useful, Eric :-). It's funny that you talk about the possibility of having "user accounts that let festival and venue organizers keep their information up to date", because that's precisely one of the website's features. It was created with the idea of a community in mind. There are some regular contributors from festivals, though not as many as I would like to have!
Best, Marcos > Hi Péter, > > One good resource is: > > http://expcinema.com/site/en/directory/festivals & the associated > twitter > feed, @expcinema > > 40 Frames' http://www.16mmdirectory.org/exhibitors explicitly does not > include festivals. I have the feeling that Scott Stark's > http://www.hi-beam.net/links.html#Festivals is not up to date, although > "This week in avant garde cinema" (http://www.hi-beam.net/whats.html and > the weekly mailings) sometimes contains festival announcements and due > dates. > > Certainly it's worth signing up for announcement lists and twitter feeds > of > festivals you discover. Fan their Facebook pages. Bookmark their websites. > Add their deadlines to your personal calendaring system and set them up > with annual alerts so that, if the festivals don't send an email, you'll > remember to look and see if they're still around. > > All directory projects eventually run out of steam, either temporarily or > permanently, and fall out of currency. It's hard for them to know about > new > festivals unless the organizers are very proactive. > > Our field would benefit from more options to crowdshare information. It > would be great if you were to go gather excellent information about > festivals and circulate a spreadsheet. But how much better to have a > centralized place, like expcinema.com, but with user accounts that let > festival and venue organizers keep their information up to date (and with > automated periodic emails to remind them to do so). There are many dangers > of the Yelp model, but feedback about quality of festivals and also > reports > of date and venue changes that don't come from "official" sources can be > extremely helpful. > > Guess it's a soapbox Saturday. I'd also like to see a pooling of > bibliographic information from makers and writers, assembled and made > available using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/). > > Eric > > > > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Péter Lichter <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Is there any list or database of the experimental film festivals? >> If you have any excel list or any other info, you should share it? >> >> Thanks! >> Péter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
