Young Programmers for Young Audiences! European Film Festival Network

Young audience development is firmly anchored on the agenda of all key players in the European film industry. Moreover, European film festivals are increasingly developing programmes for young audiences to secure loyal adult visitors. The Young Programmers for Young Audiences! European Film Festival Network project aims to overturn a common film festival practice, where young audience programme curation is done exclusively by grownups. In contrast, our project’s main mission is to actively include young people in the creation of five established international film festivals as Young Programmers, who will co-curate festivals’ onsite and online programmes. The network is coordinated by Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International FF (Slovenia, since 2004), its members are International Documentary FF Beldocs (Serbia, since 2008), Vilnius International Short FF (Lithuania, since 2006), Piccolo Grande Cinema (Italy, since 2008) and Motovun FF (Croatia, since 1999). The network brings together two general and three specialized European film festivals (documentaries, shorts, young audiences). The deliberate diversity of its membership is thoughtfully mirrored in a widespread geographical coverage. The festival network proposal includes coordinated and collaborative activities for young audience development, plus onsite and online circulation of European films. Its overall approach of developing participatory activities for young audiences is based on the original Moving Cinema methodology for discovering, appreciating, and enjoying European cinema, that has been since 2014 cultivated by a Barcelona-based cultural organization A Bao A Qu in collaboration with several international partners. As an important innovation in the field of young audience development, the project will also focus on research and design of open-source Sustainability and Social Awareness Charter for Young Film Audiences in European festival context and beyond. [Source: FTOP.]

Funded projects

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