Welcome
Welcome to the website of the 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference that will be held from 5-7th November 2024 in Zagreb, Croatia. The topic of this year’s conference is ‘Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux’, which aims to discuss the pertinent questions of current challenges of film production, distribution and consumption. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together insights from various fields of film research, while also providing inputs of different stakeholders from the film sector. The conference takes stock of the work from the previous Small Cinemas conferences whose aim is to open up dialogues on the challenges that the film cultures and film sector in the small countries encounter.
Please find the Call for papers for this year’s conference, and submit your abstract(s) on the following link. Deadline for submissions is the 15th of June 2024.
The 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference is organized by the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia, in partnership with Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF). The conference will be part of ZFF’s Industry Program, which will enable participants to visit a number of screenings and additional events during ZFF. Please visit the links for more information about the Organisational and the Programme Board of the conference.
The conference is part of the outreach activities of the Horizon Europe project CresCine. For more information, please visit: www.crescine.eu
If you have further questions, please contact the conference organizers.
Keynote lecturers
Katharine Sarikakis
Katharine Sarikakis is Professor of Communication Science with specialisation in Media Governance, Media Organisation and Media Industries at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria. She leads the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab, which aims to research and analyse issues, contexts, actors and impacts of media and cultural governance and their underexplored interconnections to citizenship, autonomy and control as they are articulated in the shapes of media landscapes and the relation of citizens-at-large to dimensions of interlocution.
Petr Szczepanik
Petr Szczepanik is an associate professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), and his research focuses on East-Central European screen industries, their production cultures and platformization. He co-edited Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Culture (Palgrave, 2013) and Digital Peripheries: The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective (Springer, 2020). His latest book is Screen Industries in East-Central Europe (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is a member of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project (https://gmicp.org). He has been engaged in public policy development and collaborated with various public institutions, including the Czech PSB and the Czech Film Fund.