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Film Education - EFAD Members' Initiatives

You can find here the initiatives on Film Education put in place by EFAD members.

Cinema and audiovisual centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

Since September 2020, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation has launched PECA (the Cultural and Artistic Education Program), aiming to provide every student, from kindergarten through secondary school, with access to cultural life. The program enables students to engage with artworks, meet artists, explore cultural practices, visit cultural venues, and acquire knowledge, skills, and competencies, all with the goal of fostering critical thinking and personal expression. Within this framework, the Cinema and Audiovisual Centre supports various film festivals and associations focused on film education and (co-)organizes several initiatives, including "Cinéastes en Classe" and the “Prix des Lycéens du cinéma”.

Flanders Audiovisual Fund

Archief voor Onderwijs

Archive for Education offers an online image bank for teachers with short films, videos and image and audio fragments from national and regional broadcasters, cultural and heritage organizations (and soon also fragments of creations supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund). The database is completely tailored to the final attainment levels and curriculum objectives of education (here).

 

Cultuurconnect

Cultuurconnect, a Flemish service provider working on the digitalization of the local cultural field, is currently developing a film streaming service for all public libraries in cooperation with a distributor. The content focuses on art house, world cinema, local productions, ...The project is still in the experimental phase, in which 12 libraries are participating and share a supply of 300 titles, including over 100 short films. In a second phase, the offer will be further expanded to more libraries. In order to offer a wider and regularly renewed range of films, other streaming platforms will be addressed in this second phase (here).

Department of Contemporary Culture - Deputy Ministry of Culture
Danish Film Institute

The Danish Film Institute (DFI) is committed to providing children and young people with diverse opportunities to experience, understand and create film. Focusing on film, video games, cinema culture and film education, DFI targets audiences aged 2-18, collaborating with national and international partners. The institute values the cultural and educational impact of high-quality moving images in shaping young people's identities and worldview.

The DFI offers a range of programs aimed at reaching as many children and young people as possible across Denmark, with both online and on-site film education for schools, kindergartens and families. These initiatives are often run in partnership with municipalities, cinemas and cultural institutions. Additionally, the DFI supports key organizations and practitioners through funding and mentorship, facilitated by a strong national network, and engages in European cooperation and networking.

A quarter of the DFI’s funding is dedicated to films for children and youth, supporting the development, production and distribution of documentaries, fiction and series.

National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image

"Ecole et cinéma" schemes

German Federal Film Board
Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center, Creative Greece

CINEDU – Digital Movie Platform for Schools

The Greek Film Centre introduces CINEDU, in the context of the project “Digital Movie Platform for Schools”, co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF), through the Operational Program “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014-2020”.

CINEDU is a new streaming platform just for schools, designed to introduce cinema as an innovative educational tool! Teachers and students from schools all over Greece will have free access to a wide catalogue of films and educational kits, specially curated to be screened and studied within classrooms. It offers a wide range of a minimum of 92 contemporary Greek and international films - fiction, animation, documentary, short and feature length - each accompanied by educational resources and linked to the courses of the primary and secondary education’s curriculum. Teachers will be able to use films to enrich the teaching of their courses, whilst enabling their students to better engage with the lesson, by watching acclaimed, hand-picked films.

The educational kits consist of a variety of material in the form of multimedia and interactive content, aiming to adapt to the needs and practices of the educational process. In addition to the film catalogue and the educational kits, CINEDU will offer 10 specially created short films that will introduce students and teachers to the world of cinema and film production. The platform’s content will be available to teachers and students upon registration, while technical support will be continuously provided through a helpdesk. To secure equal access, films will be subtitled, while films for younger audiences will be dubbed.

The platform is expected to be launched soon.

National Film Institute

Core Films and Klassz educational and youth programme – Classics in the Classroom

Since 2018, the NFI Film Archive has been building their website named Alapfilmek (Core Films), to demonstrate important works of Hungary’s cinematic history in a comprehensive, yet richly detailed manner. The website introduces different genres, eras and the oeuvre of film artists, and provides an opportunity to showcase the treasures within the Archive’s collections in connection to films. Fan favourites and unfairly forgotten masterpieces equally make their appearance, from every genre and type of film. The gradually expanding film history website currently offers intriguing and diverse content about 502 cinematic pieces among them 206 available in English as well.

The NFI Film Archive’s educational programme for young audiences (age 3–18) is Klassz programme is based on the ‘Core Films’ (Alapfilmek.hu) project, the NFI Film Archive’s website on the history of film. The programme offers educational materials and online games developed in co-operation with pedagogues (literature, visual arts, history etc.), NFI Film Archive organizes screenings, workshops, events at cultural festivals, competitions, lectures and camps for young audiences and workshops, conferences for educators.

To ensure the continued success and competitiveness of the Hungarian industry NFI is running a complex Training program. The main goal is to alleviate the shortage of skilled professionals. NFI is supporting training courses and organizing the Fast Forward Program, an innovative series of practice-oriented workshops and open lectures offered for free to help junior industry professionals and students keep up with demand. Beyond traditional film school curricula and internship opportunities there is a growing need for specialised knowledge to help film professionals develop new skills. NFI launched recently an initiative to help the youth in career orientation with workshops, camps and lectures. 

NFI has been funding the Great Hungarian Film Test for Students, a unique program that promotes Hungarian films, as well as the film industry as a whole. The on-line and in-person contest format - developed by the Association of Students and Youth Journalists - conveys the message to young people aged 14-20 in an innovative and creative way on their favorite and most used devices (smartphones, laptops) and platforms (social media). The Great Hungarian Film Test for Students is based on a 3-round competition series format. The first round is an online test based on which contestants can gain entry to the semi-final and final competition taking place at a cultural venue in Budapest.
The 6th edition of the Great Hungarian Film Test in 2023 reached more than 23,000 contestants throughout Hungary.

Icelandic Film Centre

The Icelandic Film Centre has developed digital study materials, based on foreign models, to promote film and media literacy at all education levels, and worked closely with the school system on implementing film literacy in curriculums.

In 2021 and 2022 the Icelandic Film Centre hosted conferences on creating content for young audiences, with workshops and lectures from renowned experts, academics, and producers in the field of children's media. 

The Icelandic film Centre has also collaborated with domestic film festivals on events connected to young audiences and film literacy, such as Reykjavik International Children's Film Festival and EFA’s Young Audience Film Day.

Ministry of Culture (MIC)

Since 2015, cinema and audiovisual became a fully-fledged part of the curriculum of schools of all levels, as specific disciplines to contribute to the construction of a common audiovisual culture and to the formation of learning environments. With Cinema and Audiovisual Law no. 220 of 14 November 2016, the National Cinema and Images for Schools Plan, signed by Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture and the Directorate General for Students, Integration and Participation of the Ministry of Education, was created. The regulation stipulates that 3% of the National Film and Audiovisual Fund, amounting to at least 12 million euros, will be allocated each year, to be used according to the intervention plan for each school year. The actions of the National Plan Cinema and Images for Schools are oriented towards the promotion of film and audiovisual language teaching and the acquisition of tools and methods of analysis that foster knowledge of the grammar of images and awareness of the nature and specificity of their functioning. The Plan envisages: training activities for teachers aimed at introducing a new target figure into the school system, the visual education operator; the launch of calls for tenders addressed to schools of all levels and to operators in the sector to support the inclusion of film and audiovisual education within educational pathways, also through workshop activities in cooperation with professionals in the sector, and to promote festivals, reviews and innovative educational initiatives dedicated to the school world. www.cinemaperlascuola.it is the first institutional web platform, promoted by the two Ministries, dedicated to the world of cinema and audiovisual at school. In the website, all the initiatives promoted by the two Ministries as part of the National Cinema and Images for Schools Plan are presented: opportunities, calls for proposals, teaching materials, audio-visual materials, learning objects, training courses and any other useful tool for launching visual education paths at school.

In August 2021 the Ministries of Culture and Education signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding allocating resources of at least €12 million per year to implement the Cinema Law. Financial allocations from the previous two-year period left unspent due to the Covid pandemic have been added to the 36M€ earmarked for the three-year period.

In March 2022, the third National Plan for Cinema and Images in Schools, which has allocated €54 million for the 2022/2023 academic year. The goal is to boost knowledge and awareness of cinematographic and audiovisual language in schools of every level.

Film Centre of Montenegro

Research on viewing habits (7-18 years) (January 2021): here.

Slovak Audiovisual Fund

See page 5-7: here 

Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts

Two projects are run by Filmoteca Española, which is a Sub-directorate General of the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA).

Educa Filmoteca is an educational project directed at students of different levels of education (secondary, upper secondary and vocational training) whose aim is to stimulate the critical thinking of learners and to promote audiovisual literacy (i.e. knowledge of film language and modes of filmmaking). Educational activities are organised around the exhibition of films, the development of pedagogical materials and the holding of colloquia moderated by experts. While activities are normally delivered through face-to-face sessions, Educa Filmoteca has been providing online events and activities for high schools during the pandemic.

The activities of Filmoteca en familia are designed to bring families and children closer to film. The aims of this project are twofold: firstly, to draw attention to the joys of the film experience, and, secondly, to turn children (ages 2 to 12) into active and lasting audiences. Moving beyond the conventional viewing of a film in a cinema, Filmoteca en familia proposes filmgoing and film viewing as experiences connected to education and to the experimental. Sessions include the projection of a feature film or a set of shorts and a guided practical workshop to foster the learning of the conventions and techniques of film language.

 

Aulacorto: Aulacorto is an ICAA website to promote the dissemination of short films within the framework of audiovisual education. Aulacorto was created in order to provide innovative educational tools to educational centres, offering audiovisual content in short film format (fiction, animation or documentary), designed for children between 6 and 17 years.

Pilot programm (Programa Cine Escuela 2025): The ICAA is developing the pilot programme Programa Cine Escuela 2025, a plan to encourage film-loving children and support the industry and exhibitors. This pilot programme is inspired by the French strategy ‘École et Cinéma’, in force since 1994 in France. Students will attend several screenings in cinemas and during school hours during the school year.