Creative Film studio VANIMA, based in Varaždin, Croatia, focuses on working with children and youth on animated movies and with organising VAFI – Int. Children & Youth Animation Film Festival. Within ECFA, for the last two years, VANIMA was represented by Sandra Malenica. Continue reading “New Spokesperson at VANIMA”
Author: Gert Hermans
ECFA’s new communication
In 2017 ECFA will not only update the well-known ECFA logo but will also present a brand new look with a renewed ambition: making the European children’s film community a stronger network and informing you even better about it.
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ECFA-Journal 4/2016
The first edition of LUCAS (Frankfurt) under director Cathy de Haan did justice to the festival’s new profile: more attention to the art of cinema in general (instead of national premieres) and to media education in particular. Continue reading “ECFA-Journal 4/2016”
Interview with Mehran Amrohi about CHIDIYA
“No matter how good or bad you are at singing and dancing”
Shanu (9) and Bua (7) live in Mumbai. Since their father died, mum is struggling hard to make enough money. That’s why she asks her brother-in-law to find the kids a job. That’s how they come to enter the film industry, serving chai on a Bollywood film set. Continue reading “Interview with Mehran Amrohi about CHIDIYA”
Film in Focus: Soner Caner & Baris Kaya’s RAUF
“First you’re a child and then you’re an adult”
Rauf, 9 years old, lives in a Kurdish mountain village in East-Turkey, where an unseen yet still unfinished war casts a dark shadow over the minds and moods of the people. Rauf quits school and becomes a carpenter’s apprentice. In the atelier, he witnesses the despair of the villagers, coming to order coffins for their fallen offspring. Continue reading “Film in Focus: Soner Caner & Baris Kaya’s RAUF”
ECFA-Journal 3/2016
Unfortunately ECFA’s application for a 2nd ‘Children’s Film First’ project within the framework of Creative Europe was not granted by the commission. We are disappointed about the rejection, as ECFA believes that this follow up project could have benefited the entire film literacy community in Europe. Continue reading “ECFA-Journal 3/2016”
Interview with Ga-eun Yoon about THE WORLD OF US
“What is loneliness and where does it come from?”
Director Ga-eun Yoon still wonders humbly if the emotions in her deeply touching film THE WORLD OF US can be understood worldwide. They certainly can! The film does not tell a straight-forward bullying story, but speaks of an outsider, a vulnerable girl drowning in supreme loneliness. Sun, 10 years old, tries to fit in, but is ignored by everyone, always the last to be picked out for class teams. Everything seems to change the day she meets Jia… Continue reading “Interview with Ga-eun Yoon about THE WORLD OF US”
ECFA-Journal 2/2016
The world is full of scaredy-cats. Me too, I found Generation’s opening film SIV SLEEPS ASTRAY quite frightening for the young target audience. Swedish directors Lena Hanno and Catti Edfeldt proved me wrong (see interview page 10). Continue reading “ECFA-Journal 2/2016”