MyWiki:WikiProject Film/Film festivals task force
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Welcome to the Film festivals task force of WikiProject Film!
Scope
[edit source]This task force covers film festivals, including, but not limited to, articles for individual festivals, films, directors and awards. The primary focus is for competitive feature festivals listed in the {{Film festivals}} template:
| Festival | Month held | Yearly article? | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | February | Yes | 1951 |
| Cannes | May | Yes | 1946 |
| Cairo | November | No | 1976 |
| Goa | November | No | 1952 |
| Karlovy Vary | July | No | 1946 |
| Locarno | August | Yes | 1946 |
| Mar del Plata | November | No | 1954 |
| Moscow | July | No | 1959 |
| Montreal | August | No | 1977 |
| San Sebastián | September | No | 1953 |
| Shanghai | June | No | 1993 |
| Tokyo | October | No | 1985 |
| Venice | August | Yes | 1932 |
| Warsaw | October | No | 1985 |
Participants
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Film festivals task force/Participants}}
Tagging and assessment
[edit source]| Film festivals task force assessment statistics
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Film festivals articles by quality statistics}} worklist • log • category |
Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Festival-task-force=yes to the {{Film}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Film festivals task force articles.
Templates
[edit source]- For main project templates, see the sidebar.
- Userbox: {{User Film festivals task force}}
Style guidelines
[edit source]Article parts
[edit source]Articles about film festivals often lack reliable third-party references and often read like advertisements. Many are outdated. Yet film festival articles are useful, because the festivals themselves are notable events, with film premieres and awards that establish notability for films. The films and festivals go hand in hand. A well-crafted article about a film festival can provide linkage to films, directors and actors, and serve as a starting place for information that can be used to improve articles about films.
Standards have yet to be established as to what the festival articles should contain. Some festivals have separate articles for particular years. Some do not. Does Wikipedia need an article for every particular year of a regional short film festival? Probably not. But then articles on particular years for large international film festivals would probably be useful.
Images
[edit source]Aside from the key art of the festival logo or poster, there isn't much need to add images to film festival articles that aren't freely licensed. Film festivals are great potential sources of freely licensed images of actors and filmmakers. Organizers of film festivals should be actively encouraged to freely license their images, as the image description would always link back to the festival, thereby serving as a promotional tool for the festival, but also a great resource of images of notable public figures.
External links
[edit source]This is pretty basic. Beyond the official site, and an IMDb link, if it exists, what else is really needed?
Categories
[edit source]To-do
[edit source]Ongoing projects
[edit source]- Creation of all film festivals for each year and films screened in the main competition sections of competitive feature festivals listed in the {{Film festivals}} template.
- Article tagging is under way, and is far from complete. Feel free to browse through the film festival categories and lists and make sure the article's talk page is properly tagged. Wisekwai is working on Category:Film festivals in the United States, and has worked backward through alphabet to the letter T.
- Go through Category:Film festivals and make sure each article has a class and importance rating assigned.
Category maintenance
[edit source]- Category:Film festivals by type is another category that is helpful for organizing special interest film festivals.
Other tasks
[edit source]- More interested editors are needed to join this project.
- Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
- Expand the open task listing, particularly targeting articles that could be expanded or need clean up.
- An infobox template, {{Infobox Film Festival}}, exists. Does it fit the needs of this project? Have a look and discuss.
- Create a user box.
- Expansion needed
- Film festival • Moscow International Film Festival • Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema • Jakarta International Film Festival • Mar del Plata International Film Festival • Newport Beach Film Festival • Pusan International Film Festival •; International Film Festival Rotterdam • San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival • Cork Film Festival • Anchorage International Film Festival; DisOrient Film Festival; Seattle Asian American Film Festival; Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Resources
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Listings
[edit source]- Movie festivals and events worldwide at the Internet Movie Database
- FilmFestivals.com
- Film Festival Events Directory – Largest web database of film festival events.
- Festivalfocus.org – Comprehensive listing.
- Ominous Events: The Horror Fests and Cons Database
Further reading
[edit source]- Turan, Kenneth, Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2002, hardback, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Watson, Nigel, "The Sense and Sensationalism of Film Festivals"