This publication contains an overview of the main facts and figures on the production,distribution and exhibition of feature length films, documentaries, shorts and animated films in 2018 in the Netherlands. It is published annually by the Netherlands Film Fund.
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In the past two years [2010-2012] we have done research on the visitor experience of music festivals. We conducted several surveys asking festival visitors for demographic variables, taste in music, their motivation for visiting festivals, mentalities and the evaluation of the festival. We also asked for the use of social media before, after and during the festival. Results show that visitors using social media have a significantly different festival experience from users that do not use social media before, during or after the festival. Results on difference in festival satisfaction are mixed.
This paper provides an introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events on Festival Cities and Tourism. It provides a contextualisation of the conversations surrounding the relationship between cities and their festivals during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focussing on the ‘festival city’ of Edinburgh, we examine how festival organisers reacted to the challenges of the pandemic, and how they strove to maintain contact with audiences and other stakeholders. We then review the different contributions to the special issue, ranging from festivalisation and suburban food festivals in Barcelona to an art festival in Dublin, the European Capital of Culture in Hungary and the festival portfolio of Hong Kong.
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Het project ‘App4Support – doorontwikkeling en validering’ ondersteunt vrijwillige jeugdtrainers om sportuitval te voorkomen bij kinderen met milde psychosociale problemen. Hoewel sporten belangrijk is voor hun fysieke en mentale gezondheid, haken juist deze kwetsbare kinderen vaak vroeg¬tijdig af op de sportclub. Dit project wil daar verandering in brengen door de app ‘App4Support’ die we recentelijk vanuit Hogeschool Winderheim tezamen met het bedrijfsleven, sportclubs en professionals hebben ontworpen, verder te ontwikkelen en te valideren. De app ‘App4Support’ is ontworpen om vrijwillige jeugdtrainers te ondersteunen in het pedagogisch verantwoord omgaan met moeilijk-te-verstaan gedrag van kinderen op de sportclub. De app biedt inzicht in gedragingen van kinderen en de aanleidingen hiervoor en geeft praktische tips voor vrijwillige jeugdtrainers, gebaseerd op wetenschappelijk onderzoek en praktijkkennis. We werken in dit project aan een uitgebreidere en gevalideerde versie van de recentelijk ontworpen app. Een belangrijk aandachtspunt daarbij is het toevoegen van een digitaal samenwerkings¬platform waarop jeugdtrainers en sportprofessionals kennis en ervaringen kunnen uitwisselen. Om een beeld te krijgen van de bruikbaarheid – oftewel ter validering – van deze volgende versie van de app creëren we een living lab-setting tijdens één van de vele sportfestivals die jaarlijks in ons land plaatsvinden. Onder de bezoekers van het sportfestival zal zich ongetwijfeld een aanzienlijk aantal vrijwillige jeugdtrainers bevinden. We nodigen deze jeugd¬trainers op het sportfestival uit om de app, inclusief het digitale samenwerkingsplatform, ter plekke te verkennen in een interactieve setting, met een focus op de gebruiksvriendelijkheid, relevantie en compleetheid van de app. Het doel van deze testcase is om waardevolle input te verzamelen voor de doorontwikkeling en validering van de app ‘App4Support’. Hierdoor zal de app zo goed mogelijk aansluiten bij de behoeftes van vrijwillige jeugdtrainers in de dagelijkse praktijk op sportclubs. Dat voorkomt sport¬uitval bij kwetsbare kinderen en draagt in die zin bij aan een inclusieve sportparticipatie.
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) involves uncontrollable drinking despite negative consequences, a challenge amplified in festivals. ARise is a project using Augmented Reality (AR) to prevent AUD by helping festival visitors refuse alcohol and other substances. Based on the first Augmented Reality Exposure Therapy (ARET) for clinical AUD treatment, ARise uses a smartphone app with AR glasses to project virtual humans that tempt visitors to drink alcohol. Users interact in a safe and personalized way with these virtual humans through phone, voice, and gesture interactions. The project gathers festival feedback on user experience, awareness, usability, and potential expansion to other substances.Societal issueHelping treatment of addiction and stimulate social inclusion.Benefit to societyMore people less patients: decrease health cost and increase in inclusion and social happiness.Collaborative partnersNovadic-Kentron, Thalamusa
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a pattern of alcohol use that involves having trouble controlling drinking behaviour, even when it causes health issues (addiction) or problems functioning in daily (social and professional) life. Moreover, festivals are a common place where large crowds of festival-goers experience challenges refusing or controlling alcohol and substance use. Studies have shown that interventions at festivals are still very problematic. ARise is the first project that wants to help prevent AUD at festivals using Augmented Reality (AR) as a tool to help people, particular festival visitors, to say no to alcohol (and other substances). ARise is based on the on the first Augmented Reality Exposure Therapy (ARET) in the world that we developed for clinical treatment of AUD. It is an AR smartphone driven application in which (potential) visitors are confronted with virtual humans that will try to seduce the user to accept an alcoholic beverage. These virtual humans are projected in the real physical context (of a festival), using innovative AR glasses. Using intuitive phone, voice and gesture interactions, it allows users to personalize the safe experience by choosing different drinks and virtual humans with different looks and levels of realism. ARET has been successfully developed and tested on (former) AUD patients within a clinical setting. Research with patients and healthcare specialists revealed the wish to further develop ARET as a prevention tool to reach people before being diagnosed with AUD and to extend the application for other substances (smoking and pills). In this project, festival visitors will experience ARise and provide feedback on the following topics: (a) experience, (b) awareness and confidence to refuse alcohol drinks, (c) intention to use ARise, (d) usability & efficiency (the level of realism needed), and (e) ideas on how to extend ARise with new substances.
