Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds

Refuse. Resist. Reframe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-67231-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries

As filmmakers in the Global South are increasingly faced with the choice of succumbing to foreign visions of their own culture or losing access to indispensable funds and future prospects, this study explores this quandary through studying filmmaker’s own perspectives.

The book focuses on filmmakers’ individual approaches to European film funds, arguing not only that these creator-sponsor relationships are highly complex, but also that filmmakers are fully able to develop various strategies of resistance by reframing these relationships. The author explores the mechanics of European film funding and how filmmakers position themselves within the system, and demonstrates how these strategies are also present in film texts themselves – movies funded by European institutions often scrutinise the notion of intercultural relationships and power struggles, negotiating widespread perspectives on intercultural exchange. Excerpts from interviews with filmmakers, producers, adjudicators of funds and representatives of various cultural institutions are woven into scholarly arguments, theoretical reflections, and film analyses, to creative a narrative about Latin American filmmakers who manage to overcome obstacles and create novel, exciting ways of sharing their intercultural experiences.

This informative and nuanced study will interest students and scholars of media studies, film studies, South- and Central-American cinema, media industries, economics, politics, communication studies and languages.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Racieski, Boleslaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Openings that Never End

Chapter 1: Struggles of a Latin American Filmmaker

Chapter 2: The Funds Fundamentals: Official Discourses, the Film Festival Formula, and the Selection Process

Chapter 3: Funds Give, Funds Take? The different facets of support, gathering of funds, and the imbalance of prestige

Chapter 4: The ‘Fund Cinema’: the Case of Minimalismo Mexicano

Chapter 5: Cracks in the Past: Decolonising the Discourses on History

Conclusion: Utopia of the Unattainable

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Boleslaw Racieski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw, Poland.