How to capture the festival network: Reflections on the Film Circulation datasets

Abstract

The Film Circulation project is the first quantitative research in film festival studies that analyses the complex network relations of the sector using festival run data. This paper provides a detailed account of the project’s dataset, including decisions on data model, collection, structuring, and enhancement. It also documents the dataset’s sources, structures, limitations, and potential, with the goal of making the project more accessible and encouraging further collaborations in festival-related data analytics.

Keywords

• data paper
• datasets
• film circulation
• film festivals
• festival runs