What if you’re winning one festival award after the other, but still didn’t get nominated for the ECFA Award? It almost happened to LOS BANDO by Christian Lo (Norway), until now… This hilarious musical road movie won the ECFA Award at the Black Nights Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. Continue reading “Black Nights for LOS BANDO” →

At the age of 43, Vera Micaelsen died on October 28 after a lingering illness. Continue reading “Vera Micaelsen R.I.P.” →

For the first time, the BAB Festival (Biennial of Animation, Bratislava) presented an ECFA Short Award. Continue reading “ECFA awards Hedgehog in Bratislava” →

The Visegrad Animation Forum (VAF) has been the largest platform for the animation industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Now there is an ambition to broaden the platform by including other countries, and umbrella all activities under the new CEE Animation brand. Continue reading “Open call for CEE Animation Forum 2019” →

KinoOstrov (St. Petersburg, Russia) has a prestigious plan for the winter season: a film camp in Tarragona, Spain, where they will organise the International Kids & Youth Film Festival ‘Gifts of the Magi’.

 

 

 

 

Continue reading “Young filmmakers winter camp in Spain” →

In CLOUDBOY 12-year-old Niilas has a special passion: with his audio device he tracks and captures sounds in his surroundings, that he can manipulate, distort, mix and compile into a soundtrack that perfectly fits with his state of mind. The wonderful world of sound offers him peace and a sense of control. Continue reading “CLOUDBOY enables new methods for film education” →

The project ‘Film Education: from Framework to Impact’, funded by Creative Europe, is a consortium of the BFI, DFI, Vision Kino (Germany), and the Cinémathèque Française, supported by EFADs and their Film Education Working Group.

 

Over the next two years this project will be building resources, training materials, and infrastructure networks to support film education in a range of European territories, developing out of the Framework for Film Education. Its first action is to gather intelligence from key national and trans-national bodies about existing practice and structures, to see what is valued, why people do the film education work they do, and what extra support is needed. The perspective of the children’s film sector is very valuable here. Therefore we are asking as many ECFA members as possible to fill in this short survey (which should take 20 à 30 minutes). The final deadline is already November 9th. Thank you for your consideration!

On behalf of the BFI,

Mark Reid

The new Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027 is in the making. Unfortunately, in the new Regulation, proposed by the European Commission, children’s media are regarded in an unsatisfactory way, not like they deserve.

That’s why the State Chancellery of Thuringia asked KIDS Regio and ECFA for advice. Together, both platforms carefully studied the text and prepared amendments, taking into consideration children’s and young people’s media in general, and specifically feature films and documentaries for this target group, as well as media literacy.

These amendments are already supported by the State Chancellery of Thuringia and by CineRegio, the pan-European association of 44 regional Film Funds. Furthermore they have been spread throughout the ECFA and KIDS Regio networks.

Now we hope that many stakeholders (aren’t you all?) will take action to shape the Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027. Therefore you should get in touch with “your” members of the CULT (Culture & Education) Committee of the European Parliament, as well as with other people / institutions who could support our cause.