European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
While celebrating the award ceremony of the 46th edition of LUCAS – Int’l Festival for Young Film Lovers – in the DFF Cinema in Frankfurt, there is one thing to keep in mind: “After the festival is before the festival!” Thanks to generous funding, LUCAS will extend its participative workshop programme – brought together under the title ‘Get Involved!’ – beyond the festival period.
While preparing for the yearly CEE Animation Forum, the leading regional pitching, financing and co-production event for animated projects with a special focus on the Central and East European market (8-9 November in Pilsen, Czech Republic), CEE presents two other events with a fast approaching deadline.
Continue reading “CEE: How to distribute short animations and more”
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.