The track record of the Belgian JEF festival always marks the start of a new year for the ECFA Awards. The debates were opened with three new titles, with the documentary WHY DIDN’T YOU STAY FOR ME? as the most notable representative.
ECFA News
CMC awarded with Nobility
In the British Queen’s New Year Honours, Greg Childs (Children’s Media Conference & Children’s Media Foundation) was awarded an OBE for his services to International Trade and the children’s media sector.
CEE Animation Experience
CEE provides the world with online content concerning all aspects of the world of animation. This series of webinars in cooperation with selected partners is permanently and freely available for all users.
Kids Kino Docs
For six documentary filmmakers from Poland and Norway, 24 March marked the start of the brand new Kids Kino Docs programme. This extension of the Kids Kino Lab script development workshops has set a clear ambition: creating a space dedicated to documentary films and series for young audiences
FIFEM takes you to heaven
During the 25th edition of the Montreal Int’l Children’s Film Festival (FIFEM) two of the most prestigious prizes were taken home by a film that – literally – takes you to heaven.
Children’s Films can mean comfort, relief, and hope
Escalating conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate and growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. Humanitarian needs are multiplying – and spreading by the hour. Children have been killed. Children have been wounded. They are being profoundly traumatized by the violence all around them. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the move, and family members are becoming separated from their loved ones.
Unicef
ECFA as an ambassador of children’s needs is dismayed and shocked by what is happening in Ukraine. We condemn the fact that the Russian government considers war to be a legitimate means to enforce its interests against Ukraine, a sovereign country. War was and is never a legitimate means – there are only losers. Especially the children.
ECFA is committed to quality children’s films. In these times they can mean comfort, relief, and hope. We ask our members and other organisations to offer film screenings to refugees from Ukraine.
New Horizons Association in Poland is right now preparing a VOD platform with films for kids with Ukrainian voice over.
Get in touch with them – be supportive – follow their example.
ECFA Journal February 2022
What do ECFA and David Bowie have in common…? They both delivered their best work from Berlin.
Online Film Analysis Course by Ciclic
Committed to boosting access to visual culture for everybody, Ciclic launches an English version of an online film analysis course to be shared far and wide!