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Media Acción Tipo de actividad Paises participantes NL
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Coordinador STICHTING CINEKID AMSTERDAM NL
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Cinekid Festival, every year taking place in October, consists of different events within one festival: a Film Festival, Television Festival, New Media Festival and Cinekid for Professionals. In our application, we only proposed Cinekid Film Festival for your consideration. Our main objectives are promoting quality audio-visual media culture for children and supporting active participation of children in media creation; in order to develop their critical senses and strengthen their position by improving their media literacy. By presenting cinema in a context with other innovative high quality audio-visual products, children will receive the most complete experience of media. Cinekid Film Festival aims to present and stimulate high quality films for children and young people with diverse programming. Cinekid sees this as an important goal, because the emotional, cognitive and social development of children is heavily influenced by media. In its programming it emphases productions from European countries, which have a strong children’s film tradition. Films are not just screened, but also presented in a media-literacy framework. Masterclasses and workshops are organized in connection to the films and together with q&a’s they allow children to interact with the films and the attending talent. School screenings are hosted at the beginning of the festival, accompanied by custom made educational material. Simultaneously with the screenings in Amsterdam, Cinekid on Tour brings films, school screenings, workshops and activities to around 40 locations all over the Netherlands. On an international scale, Cinekid promotes the circulation of European films with its media industry event Cinekid for Professionals (not included in the application). The 31st edition of Cinekid Festival take place in Amsterdam between October 18 and 27 and simultaneously at 39 theatres in cities in the Netherlands. Cinekid Festival, its decentralized programs, and its many year-round activities, welcomed around 80,000 visitors. Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam counted 33,774 visits, including two days specifically dedicated to school screenings that reached an audience of 4,101 originating from 31 schools. The decentralized programme of Cinekid reached a total audience of 26,358, including the satellite festival Cinekid on Tour, which attracted 20,241 children at its 39 theatres, and accompanying decentralized school screenings, which reached another 6,117 students. Cinekid organises various year-round educational out-reach projects and activities, such as film workshops, school screenings, and special events, that reached 42,820. Finally, through “De Dag Vandaag”, an online platform used by schools to organise education screenings in the classroom, Cinekid’s catalogue of high quality European children’s films reached an audience of 40,350 children. The Cinekid Film Festival contained three competitions: Best Children’s Film, Best Dutch Family Film, and Best Short European Animation Competition. A Shorts section was added to the already existing Out of Competition Features programme, the dedicated narrative VR cinema launched in 2016 was continued, evening screenings when introduced, and special short compilations and classic children’s films were presented. Overall, the programme greatly expanded to 110 films in total, including 91 European works (36 features, 54 shorts). 75 non-national European films were shown (included 40 originating from low production countries), representing a record 25 MEDIA countries. Our goal was to select with ambition, focusing on quality, originality and diversity, to fulfil our role as an important guiding festival that gives new films, talent and initiatives a chance. We wanted to maintain our position as “the largest children’s fest of its kind in the world […] an industry watering hole where some of the major issues in the world of children’s media are fleshed out” (Variety). |