The last ECFA Award nomination of the year came from Poznan, Poland, where the jury awarded the French animation CALAMITY – A CHILDHOOD OF MARTHA JANE CANNARY by Rémi Chayé.
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New dates for Smile Festival
The Smile Festival in Dehli not only shifted dates, but also shifted its ambition.
‘One World in Schools’ Documentaries
One World in Schools is an educational festival programme that helps young people to make a difference through documentaries about human rights.
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FLEE wins EFA Award for Animated Feature
The European Film Academy has announced the winners of the 34th European Film Awards in multiple categories. The category that particularly concerned the children’s film industry was the Award for Best European Animated Feature. More than 4,100 academy members voted and FLEE (by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Denmark) was the winner.
Drac Magic Seminar: Do images dream with archives?
On the occasion of their 50th anniversary, the Drac Màgic cooperative organises a seminar about visual culture and education (17-19 December, Barcelona). The title of the event carries a poetic question: Do Images Dream With Archives?
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Olympia Festival showers you in awards
Few festivals hand out as many awards as the Olympia Festival in Pyrgos, Greece. Not only by combining the festival awards with the Camera Zizanio Awards for young filmmakers, but also when it comes to ECFA Awards! There were three of them, with the remarkable I, JULIA winning as the Best Short.
MICA awarded at Lucas Film Festival
As festival director Julia Fleißig said in her recent ECFA Journal interview: “We want our programme to stand out. We don’t have a hundred titles in our catalogue; our catalogue is small and considerately compiled and stimulates thinking out-of-the-box.” From these titles, MICA (Ismaël Ferroukhi, France) was picked by the ECFA Jury.