By Mabel Pais
A Virtual Gathering Of Film Exhibitors Of All Kinds
January 11-15, 2021
The Film Festival Alliance (FFA) has created FilmEx, a virtual gathering of talks, panels, and presentations focusing on innovation, technological analysis, and methods to promote equity and inclusion in the film festival industry and independent film exhibition space. The FFA also continued its growth as an organization, adding Gray Rodriguez as Director of Communications and promoting Barbara Twist to the role of Associate Director from her previously held post as Director of Membership.
The FFA has stepped up to host what has become an annual touchstone gathering event for the national film festival and independent film exhibition community and industry. They are currently accepting applications for prospective speakers. FilmEx speaker forms can be found at forms.gle/jo7jq8sC14jd47Rm7. Registration is open. The Film Festival Alliance Executive Director Lela Meadow-Conner, said, “FilmEx will set the tone for the year to come, bringing everyone in the ever-growing film festival and art house cinema communities together in the virtual space we are all currently inhabiting, to share new ideas, methods, and business practices, as our members and others continue to innovate the ways in which we present films, and benefit filmmakers, distributors and audiences. We hope to join the voices of experience and bring new ones to the table, to look at the ways in which we move forward and the opportunities that exist for change.”
Among the FilmEx topics informed by, but not limited to, the experiences of film festivals dealing with the realities of operating during the pandemic, will be; Building Loyalty & Audience Engagement in the Virtual Spaces; Next Level Grant Writing; Balancing Sponsorship in the Virtual & IRL Worlds; Redefining Success from An Experiential POV; Confronting Reduced Bandwidth & Oversaturation; Staffing Sustainability: Retention in the Age of Covid; and Rethinking Programming Categories & Barriers.
For more information on the Film Festival Alliance, visit filmfestivalalliance.org
ABOUT FILM FESTIVAL ALLIANCE
Film Festival Alliance (FFA) creates a collaborative global community for mission-driven film festivals. FFA advocates for a sustainable and inclusive environment for the industry within the cinema exhibition ecosystem and creates a powerful collective voice for film festivals and the people who run them. To learn more, visit filmfestivalalliance.org
(Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, The Arts and Entertainment, Spirituality, and Health & Wellness)