Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Community film


 * What's the difference between the TALK page and the PROJECT page? Is all the most pertinent information in the correct place?Filmpartscom (talk) 18:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Look what I found:

Foley, Helen. To Sing the Street: Using a Community Film Program to Teach Composition The English Journal, Vol. 60, No. 8 (Nov., 1971), pp. 1101-1108  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.46.27 (talk) 10:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Would be useful to track down earliest notable refs to Community Film, e.g. Beattie, Eleanor. The Handbook of Canadian Film (1977). Second Edition: "Teachers and librarians may find the sections "Using Films" and "Film Publications" and the bibliography most useful. In addition to the category "Film Study," the following new sections have been included in this revised second edition: "Community Film and Video,""Native People and Film,""Political and Third World Films," and "Women in Film." " — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.46.27 (talk) 09:13, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Notably, BBC advertising jobs in Community Film:

Maybe the early editors of the article should've mentioned stuff like this: Julia Knight. The ‘Alternative’ End of Marketing: Building Audiences for Artists’/Community Film and Video in Britain since 1980 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 29, 2009 - Issue 4, Pages 449-465. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.46.27 (talk) 08:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

This article should stay. Community filmmakking is practiced throughout the world but not much information is available online. For instance, I can speak of the 'Ektara Film Collective' from India. They have been doing some exceptional work since 2010 by involving people from a certain community in a certain area (one at a time) to work as cast and crew in their films. They have produced at least 3 short films and one feature-length film through this method. Wikipedia should allow more and more discussion on this topic as this is not something the mainstream culture-industry would promote. But films produced through this method have often managed to generate interest, attention and awareness around a certain local issue. This is important, I feel.

- Anamitra Roy, India — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.87.142.179 (talk) 15:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

In fact, there has been a long tradition of community film, e.g. a festival running since 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Film_Festival — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.46.27 (talk) 10:11, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

This article should not be deleted.

There has in fact been a recent collection of essays (available in hardback, paperback and ebook) devoted entirely to this important international topic: "Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Practices and Places" SEE https://www.routledge.com/Community-Filmmaking-Diversity-Practices-and-Places-1st-Edition/Malik-Chapain-Comunian/p/book/9780367876494 It's edited by Sarita Malik, Caroline Chapain, Roberta Comunian (London and New York: Routledge, 2019).Here is a summary of this book:

"This book examines the role of community filmmaking in society and its connection with issues of cultural diversity, innovation, policy and practice in various places. Deploying a range of examples from Europe, North America, Australia and Hong Kong, the chapters show that film emerging from outside the mainstream film industries and within community contexts can lead to innovation in terms of both content and processes and a better representation of the cultural diversity of a range of communities and places. The book aims to situate the community filmmaker as the central node in the complex network of relationships between diverse communities, funding bodies, policy and the film industries."

Furthermore, there is *** no evidence *** that the wiki article borrows or draws on another book: Cinema Beyond the City

In fact, this book was published in 2016, long after the wiki page was established in 2011. If anything, the book draws on wiki, not the reverse! (maybe that also indicates the significance of the page and its relevance to contemporary discussion of film. Here is a summary of the book: Cinema Beyond the City (2016):

"Cinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city. Yet film exhibitors have been bringing moving pictures to towns and villages since the early days of itinerant shows. This volume presents for the first time an exploration of the social, cultural and economic dynamics of film culture in the European countryside. Spanning more than a century of film exhibition from the early twentieth-century to the present day, Cinema Beyond the City examines the role that movie-going has played in small-town and rural communities across Europe. It documents an amazing diversity of sites and situations that are relevant for understanding historical and current patterns in film consumption. In chapters written by leading scholars and young academics, interdisciplinary research is used to address key questions about access, economic viability, audience behaviour, film programming and the cultural flows between cities and hinterlands. With its wide range of regional studies and innovative methodological approaches, the collection will be of interest not only to film historians, but also to scholars in the fields of urban history, rural studies and cultural geography." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.46.27 (talk) 08:36, 12 May 2020 (UTC)