Template talk:Infobox film or theatre festival

Fields
There should be fields for:
 * Opening film
 * Closing film
 * [Name(s) of] Award(s)

But what about these? How would these be used? Some film festivals have hundreds of films and dozens of guests each year. Listing them in the infobox would be tedious. — WiseKwai 04:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Films
 * Directors
 * Producers
 * Writers
 * Starring
 * Distributor
 * Maybe they could be featured films/directors - like the starring fields in the traditional film infobox? I'll add in the fields you suggested.  -Elizabennet 19:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, I changed distributor to host, for the group hosting the festival. For awards, did you mean awards that the festival received or awards they give out (like at Sundance)?  In the latter case, should it say something like "winner of festival"?  Thanks for all the feedback, by the way. -Elizabennet 19:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops edit conflict. For awards, I was thinking of the names of the awards that are handed out like Palm D'or, Golden Bear, etc. But it could also list the actual winners of the awards, depending on what kind of film festival article the box is used. I'm thinking the infobox would have many uses, for film festivals of all sizes. Is that right? It could go on a main article like for Cannes Film Festival or it could go on an individual year, like 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival. Since my questioning earlier, I've warmed up to this. Sorry if I was being harsh earlier. The fields for films, directors, producers, etc., leave editors flexibility. They can fill them in as much as they want or not at all. And as the infobox is used more, some examples could be brought to this page as a guide to others. It's a useful template, I think. Good job! — WiseKwai 19:31, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

awardsgiven field
I just added this infobox to 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and even though the explanation for the 'awardsgiven' field is "e.g. Sundance awards" I could not decide exactly what to put in this field. The "Sundance" awards for the most part are called "Grand Jury" and "Audience Award" in each of the categories. (See 2007_Sundance_Film_Festival for the full list.) Honestly the only uniquely named award that a film festival gives, that I can think of that, is the Palme d'Or. Perhaps a different explanation text should be used for the infobox. &mdash;A 23:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Logo and image
I just added a second image field to allow for both a logo,, and a representative image, , for use on Cannes Film Festival. Let me know if this is a problem. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 14:38, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Festivals' chronology
Well, the idea was to add the chronology for all the editions of a festival. So, I added 3 new fields to this template (Infobox Film festival):
 * chronology: which accepts the name of and the wlink to the festival
 * preceded_by: wlink to the previous edition of the festival
 * followed_by: wlink to the next edition

Code (part of) for 2009 Cannes Film Festival: 
 * chronology    = Cannes Film Festival

Result:

Another possibility is to use the synthax of Infobox Academy Awards (please, see this page for an example on how it works.)

Hope this will be useful. Any problems, please email me. –p joe f (talk • contribs) 12:47, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Need for an acronym parameter
Given that there are so many film festivals know by their acronyms, I think that it would behoove us to include it as a parameter. For instance:


 * Many of these have websites that use the acronym: diff.ie, hiff.org, hkiff.org.hk, jiffindia.org, piffindia.org, sbiff.org, & siff.net.
 * Many of these have logos that use the acronym: Calgary Underground Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, Hawai'i International Film Festival, Jaipur International Film Festival, Port Townsend Film Festival, Pune International Film Festival, & Seattle International Film Festival.
 * In the case of the Seattle International Film Festival, it is better known as SIFF. That is really its common name, as can be seen from its venue names: SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Cinema Downtown, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, & SIFF Film Center.

I thus think that it would be best to adopt an acronym parameter since it is clearly important to the identity of many film festivals. Peaceray (talk) 06:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * That the acronyms are a handy shortcut for website URLs is not really a valid argument, IMO. Zaathras (talk) 14:37, 17 February 2024 (UTC)