European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
The 66th Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen is happy to announce that all films selected for this year’s Children’s & Youth Film Competition will be presented in an online edition between 13-18 May, also including all ECFA Short Award nominees from 2019.
Since 2011, the Busan Int’l Kids & Youth Film Festival (BIKY – see presentation here) has engaged in a yearly film education forum and seminar. From this year on BIKY is broadening its horizon, launching the first international ‘Open Mic’ Forum, with an agenda that is open to the public.
Continue reading “Deadline approaching for Open Forum BIKY (South-Korea)”
ANIMOK, a Danish animation & gaming festival for children in day-care and schools, is waiting for your input for an International Animation Competition for School Children.
Founded in 2018 by the Culture & Education Foundation and the National Youth and Children’s Palace, Taoba is the only international youth film festival in Georgia dedicated to young audience development and the promotion of film education.
‘Film in Hospital’, instigated by JEF (Belgium) was launched internationally two years ago together with BUFF (Sweden) and Sedmi Kontinent (Croatia) as an online platform for film screenings and audience engagement, dedicated to children in hospitals, revalidation centres or recovering at home.
Kinosaure invites families with young children (approx. 2-5 years old) to the cinema and enables audiences to interact with audio-visual content and to participate in dynamic, creative activities. Kinosaure encourages curiosity and the joy of cinema from a very young age.
Continue reading “PackMagic presents Kinosaure, lover of tales”
The Busan Int’l Kids FF was launched in 2005 with the aim of educating children to recognise the true value of film, and to communicate with the world through cinema. It is all about the voice of youth! As Asia’s biggest, and Korea’s longest-running, young audience festival, BIKY screens over 170 films and welcomes approximately 600 guests. Continue reading “ECFA proudly welcomes BIKY”
Extended reality is a fascinating and rapidly growing audio-visual set of mediums that expands the possibilities and boundaries of cinematic language. Content is indeed king and it is no less than a film festival’s mission to foster and advance new approaches towards XR storytelling. Continue reading “Riga IFF goes XR”