MOVING CINEMA. Methodologies, Strategies and Tools for Children and Young People to Appreciate European Films and Become an Active Audience

The project is structured in three levels:
1) development of pilot actions to increase the interest in European films and to foster youth to acquire habits as autonomous spectators;
2) to enable their access to cinema exhibition spaces;
3) transferability of methodologies and tools proven to be efficient in the pilot actions, in order to make them useful for organizations and teachers across Europe.

Five Strands of Work

1. Linking film-viewing and filmmaking through mobile devices. Linking film viewing and creative practices with cell phones and tablets, allows young people to develop an in-depth reflection on the films. Besides, having their own creative practice makes them generate a personal bond with cinema and makes them feel close to films.

2. Stimulating interest and knowledge of cinema through VoD platforms. The VoD platforms allow access to a great diversity of European films of all times, enable young people to share these films with family and friends and generate respectful habits towards copyrights.
The working models developed are very diverse because of the very different characteristics of the platforms that are used: In Spain, A Bao a Qu has collaborated with www.filmin.es; in Lithuania, Meno Avilys works with http://sinemateka.lt/en/; and in Germany, Kijufi, association incorporated to the project in 2016-2017, works with https://realeyz.de/.

3. Screenings and dialogues with filmmakers in festivals and cinemas: in specific sessions during school hours and fostering the access of youth to general screenings. The screenings are fundamental to promote the access of young people to European films, and to create direct contact with filmmakers and discover diverse film spaces.

4. Film programming by young people. Film programs made by young people and for young people have a two-fold value: the in-depth training of young people who make part of the group of programmers, and the innovation in the way to reach young audiences in general.
Film programming implies watching films with attention, discovering the work of the filmmakers, establishing relations, thinking on how to release a film for an audience: the ways to accompany it, to communicate it, to enable its discovery and appreciation.
We develop actions with steady groups that programme regular sessions opened to general public and with Young Programmers linked to Film Festivals.

5. Inside Cinema: website dedicated to publish materials and resources to discover the creation processes of films.
Through all these actions, we create a wide network of festivals, cinemas, and organizations generating opportunities for audience development.

Knowledge dissemination: the website www.movingcinema.eu and the trainings

Knowledge dissemination and transference is one of the pillars of Moving Cinema.
The results of the analysis of each activity are published on the website, intended to be useful for all those organizations, institutions and people interested in the transmission of cinema. Also with the purpose of disseminating the resources, training sessions are conducted in the countries of the partner organizations as well as in other European countries.

In addition, direct trainings, play an important role to accomplish our dissemination objective.
Moreover, in the 3rd edition, the dissemination work increases and intensifies through two important and complementary actions: the celebration of the Moving Cinema Conference, in which participate 50 professions from 11 countries and a digital publication, distributed to ins