Constructing a Flemish Cinema: Film Policy and National Identity in Flanders (Topics and Issues in National Cinema)

Gertjan Willems is Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is a part-time Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University, Belgium. He has been a guest lecturer or visiting scholar at the University of York, UK, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Universite Paris 2 Pantheon-Assas, France. Since 2016, he is chair of the Film Studies section of ECREA.Alexander De Man is a PhD fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) conducting research in a joint fellowship at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS) at Ghent University, Belgium and at the the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research project, entitled "The diaspora kino-eye", aims to critically investigate Flemish institutionalfilm policy frameworks and practices with regard to diaspora cinema and analyze its textual representations of diaspora identities, cultures, and spaces. He holds a master's degree in Communication Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium, specializing in Film- and Television Studies (magna cum laude). Previously, he worked as an online editor at the international film festival of Ghent and assisted in the inter-university infrastructure Cinema Ecosystem (CINECOS) project.