European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
Thousands of animated films make their way through festivals every year, only to disappear once the festival circuit ends. Discovering quality animation has become increasingly difficult in an online world ruled by algorithms. Animation HUB is your new answer to this long-standing issue.
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Producer Atom Art and director Edmunds Jansons are a solid guarantee of high-quality Latvian animation for young audiences, including the cross-media project for pre-schoolers SHAMMIES and the feature-length JACOB, MIMMI AND THE TALKING DOGS. The list is now being expanded with an appealing new title: BORN IN THE JUNGLE. However, given the story’s origins, there is also a dark side to the project.
Spring is the season of birds, and ECFA wants to play its part in that. What do a hummingbird and an ostrich have in common? The fact that they’ve both won an ECFA Award this spring. And for the sake of completeness, we should also mention a dog.
Kante Producciones is an independent Spanish film production company, founded in 2021 by Diego Martín Pérez, a musician with more than 30 years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for cinema. His artistic journey has shaped the company’s identity, built around a strong commitment to cinematic quality and to creating works with a distinctive authorial vision.
The Netherlands has a long tradition of youth film, documentary and drama productions: Homegrown stories that move children because they are recognisable, often contain challenging themes and nurture empathy and an understanding of the world. For generations of children and young people, these stories have been an important first encounter with film culture, storytelling and shared cultural experience. (Photo: LAMPIE by Margien Rogaar)
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Children’s and youth films deserve more than a festival premiere – they deserve the right partners to help them reach audiences. That’s precisely what the Just Film Works in Progress aims to offer.
Film education often depends on enthusiastic teachers or committed festivals. But what happens when an entire institution makes it part of its long-term mission? For almost 20 years, Schermi e Lavagne, the educational department of the Cineteca di Bologna, has been building a remarkably comprehensive approach to film education.
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Come on, all you boys and girls, we’d like to take you to the ECFA world!