European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
The Int’l Documentary Festival for Children & Young Audiences (16-22 October) in the Benaki Museum in Athens (supported by the Goethe Institut) has a lot to offer: a weekend with back-to-back screenings of 17 award winning documentaries, a VR project and talks with filmmakers, producers, historians, psychologists, start-uppers and other experts from Greece and abroad.
Continue reading “KinderDocs is all about meeting and exploring”
29 September 2023 was the last day of the 5th CINEDU, the only Slovak film festival of live-action, documentary and animated features for children & youth. The event takes place over two weeks in Nove Mesto nad Vahom, 100 kilometres North from Bratislava. The film programme is divided into two main categories: CINEDU Kids and CINEDU Teens. This year for the first time in both categories the young juries had to decide about the Best Film.
If they look like a club, talk like a club and act like a club… it probably IS a club. Festival programmers from around the world met in the Schlingel Festival as the true ‘Club of Festivals’, and even handed out awards.
The 12th Ojo de Pescado Int’l Film Festival for Children & Youth took place in Valparaíso, Chile, from 25 August–1 September.
Continue reading “Ojo de Pescado: The truth is in the fish’s eye”
Consider yourself lucky. Here’s the thickest edition in the ECFA Journal’s glorious history.
Cauliflower and cucumbers… according to the garden calendar, these are fruits to harvest in April and May. But these months are the harvest season for ECFA, with a multitude of ECFA Awards in various festivals.
On 24 May 2023, a Greek newspaper article refers to a primary school teacher’s choice to show an “erotic film” in her classroom. Τhe truth could not be more different, as the aforementioned film is SHOWER BOYS by Christian Zetterberg. The moral panic and fake news that follows, result in a magnified media panic. For around 24 hours the news is reproduced in newspapers, television and social media.
Continue reading “SHOWER BOYS scandal stirs emotions in Greece”
With over 1200 delegates, there’s no better place to better engage with kids’ content and the kids’ audience than the Children’s Media Conference, which ECFA members can attend at a special rate.
Continue reading “It’s almost time for CMC 2023 Live and Online! (4-6th July)”