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[email protected] On Women’s Film Festivals: Histories, Circuits, Feminisms, Futures Katharina Kamleitner A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Culture and Creative Arts College of Arts University of Glasgow April 2019 2 Abstract When they began to flourish in the 1970s, women’s film festivals offered pivotal opportunities for the exhibition of films by women filmmakers beyond the mainstream. Since then, these festivals have grown into significant platforms for the dissemination of and research into women’s films and are actively shaping the global film festival landscape. Yet, despite this proliferation and the advance of the burgeoning field of Film Festival Studies, little research has been undertaken into the organisation and development of women’s film festivals. This thesis presents the first lengthy study that explores women’s film festivals in depth.