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Welcome to the Film festivals task force of WikiProject Films!

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Tagging and assessment 4 Templates 5 Style guidelines 5.1 Article parts 5.2 Images 5.3 External links 6 Categories 7 To-do 7.1 Ongoing projects 7.2 Category maintenance 7.3 Other tasks 8 New articles 9 Resources 9.1 Listings 9.2 Further reading

[edit] Scope

This task force covers film festivals.

[edit] Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. А (talk · contribs)
2. Belovedfreak (talk · contribs)
3. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs)
4. Doctor Sunshine (talk · contribs)
5. Timbouctou (talk · contribs)
6. Wisekwai (talk · contribs)

[edit] Tagging and assessment

Film festivals task force assessment statistics Film festivals articles Importance High Mid Low None Total Quality GA 1 1 B 2 1 1 2 6 Start 1 6 17 24 48 Stub 1 9 93 213 316 List 10 37 47 Assessed 4 16 121 277 418 Total 4 16 121 277 418 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Festival-task-force=yes to the {{Film}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Film festivals task force articles.

[edit] Templates

• For main project templates, see the sidebar.
• Userbox: {{insert link here}}

[edit] Style guidelines

[edit] Article parts

Articles about film festivals often lack reliable third-party references and often read like advertisements. Many are outdated. Yet film festival articles are useful, because the festivals themselves are notable events, with film premieres and awards that establish notability for films. The films and festivals go hand in hand. A well-crafted article about a film festival can provide linkage to films, directors and actors, and serve as a starting place for information that can be used to improve articles about films.

Standards have yet to be established as to what the festival articles should contain. Some festivals have separate articles for particular years. Some do not. Does Wikipedia need an article for every particular year of a regional short film festival? Probably not. But then articles on particular years for large international film festivals would probably be useful.

[edit] Images

Aside from the key art of the festival logo or poster, there isn't much need to add images to film festival articles that aren't freely licensed. Film festivals are great potential sources of freely licensed images of actors and filmmakers. Organizers of film festivals should be actively encouraged to freely license their images, as the image description would always link back to the festival, thereby serving as a promotional tool for the festival, but also a great resource of images of notable public figures.

[edit] External links

This is pretty basic. Beyond the official site, and an IMDb link, if it exists, what else is really needed?

[edit] Categories

• Cat:Film festivals

[edit] To-do

[edit] Ongoing projects

• Article tagging is under way, and is far from complete. Feel free to browse through the film festival categories and lists and make sure the article's talk page is properly tagged. Wisekwai is working on Category:Film festivals in the United States, and has worked backward through alphabet to the letter T.
• Go through Category:Film festivals and make sure each article has a class and importance rating assigned.

[edit] Category maintenance

• Category:International film festivals has been created, and still needs to be populated. International film festivals are large film festivals, usually with "international" in their names. They are broad in scope, which differs from festivals that specialize in documentaries, short films, animation, genre films or special interests.
• Category:Film festivals by type is another category that is helpful for organizing special interest film festivals.

[edit] Other tasks

• More interested editors are needed to join this project.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing, particularly targeting articles that could be expanded or need clean up.
• An infobox template, {{Infobox Film Festival}}, exists. Does it fit the needs of this project? Have a look and discuss.
• Create a user box.

[edit] New articles

2008 March International Film Festival Bratislava Ljubljana International Film Festival ZagrebDox Zagreb Film Festival 2007 December 2003 Bangkok International Film Festival November Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (recreated)

[edit] Resources

[edit] Listings

• Movie festivals and events worldwide at the Internet Movie Database
• FilmFestivals.com
• Film Festival Events Directory – Largest web database of film festival events.
• Britfilms.com – Comprehensive list of film festivals.
• A-Z Film Festivals – Alphabetical listing.
• Festivalfocus.org – Comprehensive listing.
• Ominous Events: The Horror Fests and Cons Database
• Film Festival World - Comprehensive listing by country, genre, calendar date

[edit] Further reading

• Turan, Kenneth, Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2002, hardback, ISBN 0-520-21867-1.
• Watson, Nigel, "The Sense and Sensationalism of Film Festivals"