Queer and LGBT Film Festivals and the Formation of Alternative Communities

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25570016
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Doshisha University (2014-2015); Otaru University of Commerce (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Kanno Yuka 同志社大学, グローバル・スタディーズ研究科, 准教授 (30623756)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: クィア / LGBT / 映画 / 映画祭 / コミュニティ / アクティビズム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

During the three-year period of my project, I participated in seven queer and LGBT film festivals in Japan, as well as three film festivals in Korea and Taiwan in order to research mainly the following: the programming process, the organizational structure and operation of each film festival, and the collaboration between the film festival organizers and the local communities. In the final year of 2016, I invited festival organizers, programmers, and film festival researchers for an international workshop in which we had frank and meaningful discussion on the status quo of film festivals, particularly in non-metropolitan areas, organizational strategies, and the issues facing stable and continuous festival runs.

Free Research Field

視覚文化研究