They Come Around!
It is clear, when looking at the box office figures for films for children (or families) in various countries, that these films are well represented in the top ten of each country. These films, of course, are mainly the big American movies or sometimes a „national” production. Another generality we have often heard for many years now is that children’s films rarely pass the border of their country of origin. Here, we will take a look at the exact situation of these European children’s films and how they pass (or not) the borders.
by Felix Vanginderhuysen (12/2005)
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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.
Members of the Academic Committee are Irene Andriopoulou, Secretariat General for Communication & Media (GGEE), 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 coordinator Margret Albers.