RUPTURE AND REPAIR: PREVIEW TO SSMF 2021

For the April Third Thursday, CAMRA leadership discussed the upcoming Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF). Members of the CAMRA directors’ team and the SSMF planning committee gave a preview of the year’s festival and discussed the challenges of adapting a conference centered around the theme of Rupture and Repair (originally intended for the 2020 Festival that was canceled due to COVID-19) for a virtual platform. They highlighted the promises and pitfalls of engaging different modalities in an effort to maintain the spirit, ethics, and ethos originally intended for the in-person event, and they took time to acknowledge and honor the important labor that went into making it possible.
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The festival, a hybrid academic conference and media festival that offers multimodal scholars working across various forms and fields an opportunity for critical discourse and collaboration, will be held from April 16-18, 2021.