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Finding allies in pandemic times: Documentary film festivals and streaming platforms

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This chapter explores the convergence of exhibition and distribution practices in the contemporary festival landscape, focusing on the documentary festival circuit. With the Covid-19 crisis, film festivals had to reinvent themselves, which included starting collaborations with Video-on-Demand (VOD) platforms as an alternative to theatre screenings. While in previous years the circuit of major festivals such as Cannes, Venice, or San Sebastián displayed a reluctant attitude toward new players in film distribution like streaming platforms (especially Netflix), the documentary festival circuit developed an alternative approach. This is due to the different economic role played by specialized festival circuits, such as the documentary festival circuit, whose relationship with distributors and commercial movie theatres has not been as close (and dependent) as that of festivals focusing on fiction features. In this context, and with the aim of filling the gap of commercial distribution beyond the festival realm, some documentary festivals had already embarked on online distribution initiatives, including the creation of their own specialized VOD platforms.
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halshs-03929904, version 1 (09-01-2023)

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Christel Taillibert, Aida Vallejo. Finding allies in pandemic times: Documentary film festivals and streaming platforms. Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After, 2023. ⟨halshs-03929904⟩
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