European Children's
Film Association
Association Européenne du Cinéma
pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
If you want to keep up to date on initiatives and policies in media education, then check out the newsletter by CinED, a project that aims to “watch, choose, organise & share”. The third edition of their newsletter was sent out in April and contains a host of fascinating information. But that’s just a hint of what CinED has to offer.
My First Festival in Barcelona & Madrid (9-24 November) offers young audiences (aged 2-12) a unique chance to discover new films in a programme of shorts and features. Now the festival has taken up a special interest in the works of young film students.
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An ECFA Award was presented at the BUFF Festival Malmö to the Norwegian feature LARS IS LOL, celebrating its international festival premiere. In the PLAY festival in Lisbon, the ECFA Short Award went to a short Dutch documentary…
When mentioning animated production for young adults, many would automatically fill in: Cartoon Network, whose brand has dominated the market for over two decades. But there’s more to it than just series produced by mammoth American studios. That is why the Zlin Film Festival organises a talk show called “Young Adult Animation or is it time for a European adventure?”
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MAUR film has reasons to be proud. No less than four of their recent productions have been selected for the Annecy Festival 2024, among them is HELLO SUMMER, rightfully selected for the Young Audience section.
Involving young people in film festival programming is the first and crucial step in active participation of the target audience. Therefore, this year the Short Film Festival Oberhausen is organising a panel discussion under the title “Creating Programmes Together”.
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Name me one festival that does not have ‘improving the domestic production climate for children’s films’ among its objectives. Filem’on certainly does! For which they have an ambitious plan: organising a script lab. The initiative is aimed exclusively at Belgian participants and will take place in both national languages, French and Flemish.
Mo&Friese (4-9 June 2024) has been part of the Hamburg Short Film Festival for 26 years. In three different competitions, eight programmes are screened for an audience of 4-18 years, sorted according to age.