European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
ECFA collects as much information as possible to make it permanently available on the ECFA website. Recently ECFA Journal interviews and a number of research reports, curated by ECFA’s Academic Committee, have been added to the site.
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If you thought you already had enough reasons to visit the Indian province of Goa (whether to rave, sunbath or admire the countryside), you can add one more reason to your list: the Bulbul Children’s International Film Festival in Margao celebrated its first edition in January.
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FIFEM (Montreal Int’l Children’s Film Festival) is putting German films centre stage. After last year’s SCHLINGEL spotlight on productions from the Canadian province of Québec, the festival team is now curating a German focus in Canada.
“Impact and attendance are parameters to measure our success”What is the most debated question at European youth film festivals? How to get teenagers to our event? Seminars are held in which young people are questioned about it. But TIFF Next Wave in Toronto just does it. Searching for the magical spell, we approach Ikoro Sekai. May we call him the programmer of Next Wave? No, that is what the young people do themselves. With Ikoro as coordinator and manager.
“Children understand that a war is going on, but they have plenty of children’s issues on their minds”Is there a demand for children’s programmes on television and theatre shows while a war is going on out there? Under such circumstances, how do you keep a focus on your work and your social mission? We asked director and producer Volodymyr Ksenzytskii, head of the Ukrainian Agugugu Children’s Educational and Entertainment Channel.
“I dream about a funny documentary musical”During the Millennium Docs against Gravity festival in Warsaw, a group of young filmmakers pitched eight new documentary ideas for young audiences. Their enthusiasm was contagious; only the delegation of Polish broadcasters reacted coolly… Since documentaries are by definition long and boring and not intended for children, right? Karolina Smigiel of the Andrzej Wajda Centre for Film Culture has a lot of resources to combat this kind of ignorance.
“We respect the uniqueness of each and every child”For me, the BIKY festival in Busan, South-Korea, opens the gateway to Asia, to Korean cuisine (which looks even more exotic in Busan than elsewhere in the country), to Korean hospitality, urbanisation, severe weather conditions and a smoke-free city. But does the festival also open the gateway to Asian cinema for children?
“Children’s films were simply another world”The Slovak CINEDU festival for children & youth might be a relatively new event on the international calendar, but festival director Ludmila Cvikova is not a rookie. For 15 years, Cvikova has been programmer for the Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam, she has served as advisor to some of Europe’s leading festivals like Karlovy Vary and Locarno, and has been Head of Programming for the Doha Film Institute. Seven years ago, she jumped off the merry-go-round of big festivals and engaged in a small-scale event in a different segment of the film industry: young audience cinema.