The REBOOT project – Reviving, Boosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness, is a new Horizon research project launched in summer 2023, focusing on empowering European film competitiveness and national policies. Headed by the University of Vienna in partnership with 11 universities (9 EU and 3 non-Eu countries), the project aims to connect the existing strengths, to identify and overcome weaknesses and plan for future competitiveness in the fields of film policy, practice and experience, towards providing a full set of knowledge of the European film industry.
Research
In order to bring interesting and inspiring data and research on children’s film and media to the attention of our website users on a regular basis, we have established an Academic Committee that meets twice a year to review and curate material for this section of our site.
Most links provided lead to english versions. In some cases only the original language is available. But thanks to translation tools, you can easily access the knowledge in English or even your native language.
Members of the Academic Committee are Irene Andriopoulou, EKKOMED – Creative Greece, Athens, Greece; Edita Bilaver, Kids Meet Art, Sedmi kontinent, Zagreb, Croatia; Alessandra Garibolidi, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, Turin, Italy; Elisa Giovannelli, Cineteca di Bologna, Italy; Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Anne Schultka, KIDS Regio, Erfurt, Germany, board member Becky Perry and ECFA administrator Margret Albers.
Methods for engaging young audiences in health-care structures
The European project “Film in Hospital”, managed by 6 ECFA members, presents inspiring results of their research activity in a booklet. Il Nuovo Fantarca and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, through its two research centres OssCom and Cremit, ran this research in 2022/2023
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New book on audiovisual content for children and young audiences in Scandinavia
This free to download edited collection from Nordicom offers new perspectives on film and television for children and adolescents based on case studies of commissioning strategies, production frameworks, screen stories, and media use in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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Danish films for children and youth in the 2000s
A special issue of the Danish film journal Kosmorama focuses on Danish films for children and youth in the 2000s. The introduction and first chapter discuss recent trends as well as current challenges in a small nation film culture with 25% of the public film financing earmarked for children and adolescents, based on findings from an investigation of the films supported by the Danish Film Institute since 2000 as well as a number of interviews with people working with children’s films in Denmark (published as individual interviews in the issue).
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Children’s Media Lives in different European Countries
Data on children’s viewing habits is useful for both the development and distribution of children’s films. We therefore take a look here at irregular intervals at qualitative or quantitative studies that are dedicated to children’s media life in various countries. After Denmark, now Germany and Great Britain.
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7–18-year-olds and their lives with films, series, and social media
If one wants to learn more about the media use of children and young people, there are many interesting insights in a new report with qualitative research conducted by Will & Agency for The Danish Film Institute.
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Children as documentarians of the COVID-19 pandemic
This chapter from the book Documentary in the Age of COVID investigates the making of the film Dengang Danmark lukkede ned (Lockdown – A Children’s Story, 2020) which was initiated by the children’s film festival Buster and The National Museum of Denmark with the intention to have Danish children document and share their experience of life during lockdown.
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The relationship between film education and European arthouse cinema
This article by Petar Mitric from the journal Studies in European Cinema investigates how film education can make European arthouse cinema more sustainable in both cultural and industrial terms.
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