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Welcome to the Film festivals task force of WikiProject Film!

Scope

This task force covers film festivals, including, but not limited to, articles for individual festivals, films, directors and awards. The primary focus is for competitive feature festivals listed in the {{Film festivals}} template:

Festival	Month held	Yearly article?	Founded
Berlin	February	Yes	1951
Cannes	May	Yes	1946
Cairo	November	No	1976
Goa	November	No	1952
Karlovy Vary	July	No	1946
Locarno	August	No	1946
Mar del Plata	November	No	1954
Moscow	July	No	1959
Montreal	August	No	1977
San Sebastián	September	No	1953
Shanghai	June	No	1993
Tokyo	October	No	1985
Venice	August	Yes	1932
Warsaw	October	No	1985

Participants

Active members

To join the Film festivals task force, edit this section and add # {{User|yourusername}} and any comments to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username. Please add your username to Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Participants also.

1. А (talk · contribs)
2. AliceMillerPR (talk · contribs)
3. Androptrnt (talk · contribs)
4. Belovedfreak (talk · contribs)
5. Bharathprime (talk · contribs)
6. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs)
7. Cm27 (talk · contribs)
8. Doctor Sunshine (talk · contribs)
9. JuliánLeiva66 (talk · contribs)
10. Kire1975 (talk · contribs)
11. Lugnuts (talk · contribs)
12. Theopolisme (talk · contribs)
13. TheSubmarine (talk · contribs)
14. TomiGuarnaccia (talk · contribs)
15. Wisekwai (talk · contribs)

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Tagging and assessment

Film festivals task force assessment statistics Film festivals pages by quality Quality Total FL 1 GA 1 B 8 C 106 Start 832 Stub 705 List 679 Category 441 File 3 Project 2 Redirect 52 Template 46 NA 1 Assessed 2,877 Total 2,877 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 8,840 Ω = 5.35 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.

Templates

• For main project templates, see the sidebar.
• Userbox: {{User Film festivals task force}}

Style guidelines

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 Many are outdated.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.

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.

External links

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

Categories

• Category:Film festivals

To-do

Ongoing projects

• Creation of all film festivals for each year and films screened in the main competition sections of competitive feature festivals listed in the {{Film festivals}} template.
• 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.

Category maintenance

• Category:Film festivals by type is another category that is helpful for organizing special interest film festivals.

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.

Expansion needed

Film festival • Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema • Jakarta International Film Festival • Locarno International Film Festival • Mar del Plata International Film Festival • Moscow International Film Festival • Newport Beach Film Festival • Pusan International Film Festival •; International Film Festival Rotterdam • San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival • Cork Film Festival • Anchorage International Film Festival; DisOrient Film Festival; Seattle Asian American Film Festival; Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

Resources

Listings

• Movie festivals and events worldwide at the Internet Movie Database
• FilmFestivals.com
• Film Festival Events Directory – Largest web database of film festival events.
• Festivalfocus.org – Comprehensive listing.
• Ominous Events: The Horror Fests and Cons Database

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"

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.