European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
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.
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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.
Registration for our special trade fair in which educators will actively participate and inspire each other with creative ideas is open until March 15th. To ensure the best workshop experience, places are limited – therefore: don’t hesitate and fill in the form
For the first time ECFA organizes, in cooperation with the Cineteca di Bologna in the frame of the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, an event dedicated to film education professionals from all over Europe.
Ten workshops, developed by as many organizations, will be set up, focusing on different aspects of film language such as different animation techniques, the emotional impact on young audiences or topics like responsible citizenship.
Here is an abstract of the ten workshops from nine countries.
Participants will be welcomed on June 30 in the afternoon, kicking off the event with a
Cinemini Europe presentation. All workshop sessions will take place on 1 & 2 July.
Jeeves, bring me my slippers and my ECFA Journal!
For the 40th anniversary of “Sweden’s leading film festival for young audiences” BUFF (11-17 March) is bringing the world’s best films (121 in total!) to the cinemas in Malmö. And it’s not only about films, it’s also about people! That is why the festival offers free accreditation to ECFA members!
After biding time in the pandemic fridge, the Workshop Warehouse event should be ECFA’s piece de resistance in 2023. The event, organised in cooperation with Cinema Ritrovato, will take place from 30 June – 2 July in Bologna. The Workshop Warehouse will host 10 workshops and around 50 active participants.
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Ready for a final sprint to the finish? With 29 films nominated in 3 categories, it now comes down to the votes of ECFA members to decide who will be the winners of the ECFA Awards 2023. Results will be announced on 18 February 2023 during the Berlinale. The overview of nominated titles reads like a compilation of the very best that European children’s & youth cinema had to offer last year.