Overseas Film Festival

This Overseas Film Festival module will give WKWSCI students the opportunity to experience prestigious international film festivals around the world. The module would be open to WKWSCI students and would suit cinema, broadcast, and journalism students. Students will gain both critical perspectives on the history and theory of the film festivals and direct, hands-on experience by meeting and engaging with film festival programmers, staffs, film journalists, directors and producers, and international film and media scholars at the festival sites. This practicum?s aim is to let students exercise how to think, express, and write critically about film festivals and global film culture. Students will put the skills and knowledge they have learned at WKWSCI into practice, and gain additional skills and a more thorough understanding of the international film festival curatorship, programming, management, and organization practice.