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Film is a subset of the fine arts distribution typically placed within the "visual" component of other fine arts. As in broader society, there is a distinction between the notion of "film" as art and the more general category of "movies" - in quiz bowl, the latter is typically only asked about in the pop culture distribution.

As likely the most popular art form to be asked about in quiz bowl, film is often considered the slice of the canon most capable of sustainable expansion. In recent years there have been more side events focused on film than on the rest of the fine art subjects combined.

List of film and movie side events

Date	Name	Category	Subject or gimmick	Format	Packets	Writers or organizers	Notes
2024-2025	Absolute Cinema	Arts	Film	15 written tossups, 5 visual	10	Ani Perumalla
2024-2025	Spec Script	Arts	Film	22 tossups	11	Ani Perumalla
2024-2025	Untitled Film Set	Arts	Film	10 written tossups, 10 visual	11	Ani Perumalla
2024-2025	This Set Is Garbo	Trash	English-language film, 1930-70		7	Henry Atkins	Commissioned by Mike Cheyne
2015-2016	The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes	Arts	Film	visual tossups		Will Nediger