This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals – a field expanding as fast as it diversifies. Contributors from across the globe present a vast range of aspects from an equally diverse range of perspectives on these fascinating events, organized into thematic sections interrogating history, politics and challenges for their future development (including industrial, curatorial and organizational issues). Chapters analyze internationally renowned festivals as well as lesser-known, peripheral events, and thus interrogate a sweeping range of geopolitical regions and cultural practices.weiterlesen