European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
For the first time Just Film, a sub-festival of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, opens international submissions for young filmmakers. Young people worldwide can submit their films to the #youngfilmmaker competition programme. A unique opportunity!
Continue reading “Just Film invites young filmmakers from around the world”
In 2020 the AleKino! festival launched a tradition of yearly online meetings in which festivals exchange experiences and tackle challenges that are inextricably linked to the pandemic situation. The 2023 edition went under the title “Back to the cinemas – European children & youth film festivals in the post pandemic year”.
The Chania Film Festival presents the Cinema Summer School & Camp, an international encounter concerning cinema education with an emphasis on documentaries and on the culture of Crete.
AniFest is an international short film festival for children and teenagers, the only one of its kind in Albania. Since 2010, the message conveyed to children is this: if a film is a book, then the festival is a library.
Continue reading “Preparing free entrance festivals again in Albania”
The Rock Demers Award, a prestigious children’s film award on the North-American continent, was launched last year with the purpose to encourage and inspire, by recognising individuals and institutions that have distinguished themselves through their contribution to children’s cinema. At the Montreal Int’l Children’s Film Festival (FIFEM), the award was handed out to Canadian distributor Chantale Pagé.
“SIFFCY supports good cinema for the benefit of children and youth and provides healthy entertainment. We at Smile Foundation are glad to have nurtured such a platform to bring quality films from across the globe. Good cinema can help us build an empathetic society and a better planet,” says founder of the Foundation and Chairman of the festival Santanu Mishra.
Continue reading “Smile Int’l Film Fest ‘SIFFCY’ in New Delhi”
Aya Films’ recently developed training tool Curate-It makes information about film curation accessible in a digital space. Curate-It provides participants with all they need to know for implementing their own screening event. It is structured as an eight-step programme to teach participants about film theory, film curation and the practical and logistical elements needed to create film events.
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