European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
Three European features will compete in the Feature Films for Children section at the 9th edition of Ojo de Pescado IFF, the oldest festival of its kind in Chile, with online screenings from August 29th – September 6th, and with a jury consisting of children and teens only.
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In an ECFA interview in May 2019, Dutch young audience documentary producer par excellence Tangerine Tree came with sad news: “We are planning to decrease our efforts in youth documentaries.” But blood is thicker than water, and with more than 10 titles in different stages of (pre)production, Tangerine Trees’ agenda until 2022 looks more than packed.
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A national lockdown could as well be considered an opportunity to test new means of action. The Olympia Festival (Pyrgos) decided to respond to the situation through a series of initiatives:
One year ago the Croatian Film Association presented their ambitious plans for film education in the challenging era of a new school curriculum. Now, the pandemic situation pushed the association to their limits to develop a modified programme overnight.
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Subsequent to this year’s traditional festival edition (scheduled from 6-12th November), the Czech Juniorfest will launch the Juniorfest Online pilot project, in cooperation with the Dafilm platform.
In the city of Bologna, children’s cinema is always on the programme, year round. Every weekend the Cineteca di Bologna’s educational department Schermi e Lavagne is dedicating a special programme to the young audience in the Cinema Lumière. But now that cinemas have been closed since March, new opportunities had to be created.
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The Danish Film Institute launched an open online course, a comprehensive English-language initiative aiming to globally promote film education. The freely accessible course in the form of a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is one of the first of its kind in this field.
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The 66th Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen is happy to announce that all films selected for this year’s Children’s & Youth Film Competition will be presented in an online edition between 13-18 May, also including all ECFA Short Award nominees from 2019.