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This introduction provides a summary of the section “Politics and Policies,” where various authors consider the documentary film festival as a political arena, as a mediator between politics and policies and where socio-political elements of the festival world are generally foregrounded.
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For more on of the North at RIDM and The Yes Men Are Revolting at TIFF, see Winton (2020a).
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The call for festivals to draft and initiate (and publish) policy guidelines has resounded as long as there have been festivals, yet little effort has been undertaken on the part of these institutions. Which is why it is so encouraging to see the steps the Ann Arbor Film Festival is taking in moving forward to adapt the Film Festival Code of Ethics, currently under development by the Film Festival Alliance (FFA).
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———. 2020a. The Program(ming) is Political: Documentary, Festivals and the Politics of Programming. In InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Global Media Activism Reader, ed. Stephen Charbonneau and Christopher Robe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
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Winton, E. (2020). Introduction to Part III, Vol. 1: Politics and Policies. In: Vallejo, A., Winton, E. (eds) Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1. Framing Film Festivals. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17320-3_11
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