PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martinek, Přemysl
TI  - Are film festivals really a valid distribution platform? The institution of the film festival from the perspective of the distributor of "festival" films
DP  - 2014 Mar 1
TA  - Iluminace
PG  - 49--64
VI  - 26
IP  - 1
IS  - 0862397X
AB  - The text focuses on festivals as an "alternative distribution circuit" for art films. The author's perspective and his conclusions are influenced by the position of the practitioner, the film distributor, which is useful for understanding the real functioning of film festivals for cinematic practice. The author subjects some abstract and automatically accepted concepts to a revision in order to show how Czech (but also world) festivals can or cannot concretely help the circulation of films, and thus filmmaking itself, and how the growth of specialized screenings, digitization and the way of financing affect classical cinema distribution.