- Film Festivals Pt 1: The Truths Behind Film Festivals This is the first of three articles about Film Festivals. This article focuses on the data behind film festivals around the world. At the bottom of this article I have gone into detail on the methodology I used to uncover these results. I also list numerous ways in which I regard this study to be lacking, meaning that numbers should be assumed to be around 90%-95% accurate. The short answer is that I found 9,706 unique festivals which have run at least once the past 15 years, with data from twelve different sources. The main results are: There are around 3,000 film festivals currently active (i.e. ran in the past two years) 9,706 film festivals have run at least once in the last 15 years 75% of all film festivals were created in the last ten years 2009 was the peak year for new festivals 2012 had the lowest number of new festivals launched for 14 years 39% of film festivals only ever run once 71% of film festivals screen short films and 52% screen feature films Half of all film festivals run for less than 7 days North America hosts 70% of the world’s film festivals October is the busiest month, with five times as many festivals as December How Many Film Festivals Are There? I’ve collected data on almost 10,000 film festivals throughout the world, but many of these festivals have either closed or are taking a time-out from running events. I would say that to be fairly regarded as ‘active’, a festival will need to have run events in the past two years. By this standard, there are 2,954 active films festivals. stephenfollows/film-festivals-pt1-the-truths-behind-film-festivals/
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