European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
On Saturday 14 February 2026, ECFA invites you to contribute your thoughts on the current challenges of writing about young audience cinema. Publicists from various media backgrounds will have a panel discussion on how youth-oriented films are addressed from a film critic’s perspective.
Continue reading “How Can Film Criticism Grow Up With Its Audience?”
Teens & Screens 2025 is the fourth annual research report from the Center for Scholars & Storytellers (UCLA). It surveyed 1,500 adolescents aged 10–24 across the United States. This comprehensive study explores how young people engage with entertainment media today, including films, TV, streaming platforms, video games, and social media, and their expectations of the stories created for them. Continue reading “Insights into Youth Media Engagement: GET REAL!”
The Cine Regio Young Audience Report 2025 maps the strategic support that Cine Regio members provide for young audiences and the production of content for them. It showcases a variety of approaches, including dedicated funding schemes, educational programmes, festivals, talent initiatives and specialised team members. Continue reading “A KIDS Regio mapping of regional support for children’s and youth cinema”
This publication by Barbora Kyas and Noel Brown explores the potential for children’s and youth film festivals as spaces for the exhibition of radical children’s films.
The chapter, which is available to view/download, is based partly on interviews with programmers from a range of festivals, mostly in Europe and several of them ECFA members. Continue reading “Radical Children’s Film and Television”
The REBOOT project – Reviving, Boosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness is a Horizon Europe research initiative launched in summer 2023 and coordinated by the University of Vienna together with 11 partner universities. The project investigates how European film competitiveness can be strengthened through policy, institutional frameworks, production, distribution and audience engagement.
The report presented here is a completed research deliverable within the REBOOT project, focusing on institutional and legal models for the international promotion of European film.
Continue reading “From Research Project to Policy Insight: The REBOOT Report”
The Film Corner – a European initiative of Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, co-financed by the EU—is a free, multilingual digital platform designed for students aged 11–18 and their teachers. Rooted in the “three Cs” of film literacy (Critical, Creative, Cultural), it offers an accessible environment for understanding cinema as a language and cultural practice, while introducing basic creative skills. Continue reading “The Film Corner. Digital innovative environments for Film & Media Literacy”
The Croatian Audiovisual Centre has completed the first national research on film literacy, aiming to understand how children and young people in Croatia watch, interpret, and engage with film—and how schools and educators support (or fail to support) this process. Continue reading “Research on Film Literacy in Croatia”
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