The research project Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences (RYA) combines production and audience analysis when studying the current production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children and young audiences. The project is based at the University of Copenhagen (with Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall as Project Leader) and runs from 2019–2024 (supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark).
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.
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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 administrator Margret Albers.
Perspectives: A dialogue upon the question of value in film education
Speaking from two different perspectives, Alan Bernstein and Andrew Burn explore in “Perspectives: A dialogue upon the question of value in film education” published in Film Education Journal 2019 the role of value in film education, and film culture more widely. Their dialogue shows some common starting points but then different views (the first more related to practice, the second recognising the importance of theory). It may serve as inspiration both for film educators and other film professionals and practitioners as well, called upon to reflect on what constitutes the value of the films they make or propose.
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Guide of Film Literacy Initiatives in Europe
Made by Susanne Schmitt, Creative Europe Desk Berlin, in collaboration with Desk Denmark, Poland and the Polish Film Institute, 2014.
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Short Film Compilations
ECFA survey on short film compilations in European theatres (11/2013)
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ECFA’s Survey on Children’s Film Distribution in Europe (2004 – 2007) Create Promotional Power – Together
by Reinhold T. Schöffel (9/2008)
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The complete statistical Survey
Survey on the Distribution of European Films for Children in Europe 2000 – 2004
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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