European Children's Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
European Children's Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
Discussion:
What does Quality
mean in Films for
Children?
The discussion what is a good film for children has been going on for many years. Many controversial arguments have come up, mostly from the negative side, trying to explain from which kind of films do we have to protect our children.
One of the results of the 1st Conference on the Distribution of Films for the Young Audience at Konstanz/Germany in 1999 was to define positive criteria for the quality of films for children. Those films that meet these criteria should receive a certain label of quality in order that this label can be used as an instrument for their promotion.
However: Films basically are individualistic and can hardly be compared to one another. And one half of the film is created in the mind of the viewer, who is an individual as well. Knowing that films create emotions, entice the taking on of new identities and give information we must not define strict rules for high or low quality, but have to find an open collection of ideas which can bring us closer to a common valuation of a film.
ECFA wants to start this as an open discussion on an international basis and invites everybody to contribute - via E-Mail to the European Children's Film Distribution Network, where we intend to collect all contributions:
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