Additional Events

Educational Day 2009 

New ideas of film work in Lower Saxony

1. The Lower Saxony Filmklappe (clapperboard)
   A local short film competition for students of all school types and age groups.
   
   
2. Concept of the Lower Saxony Film Canon
   Film analysis is a very complex task. It belongs to the core curricula in Lower Saxony and is therefore an integral part of teaching activities. Various aspects of a possible film analysis are focused on in the films of the film canon.
   
   
3. Film Teachers in Lower Saxony
   Film teacher is qualification project for media education consultants at local media centers and for teachers trained as competence partners of schools in Lower Saxony, according the example of the model project "Film Initiative in Bavarian schools."
   

Speaker:
Paul R. Hilpert, Head of Department at NiLS in Hildesheim, responsible for the technical coordination of media education consultants and related regional model projects

Panel discussion: Is the CHILDREN’S FILM concept still relevant?

Friday 09 October 2009, 15.30 - 18.00 h, pentahotel Salzstraße

Developments, trends and challenges in the face of a globally spreading digital media diversity.

In view of the technical innovations digitization has brought about in recent years not only in the field of film production, but also in distribution and reception, the question arises: what kind of media contents are appropriate to the new framework conditions?
Where is there a place for the classical CHILDREN’S FILM among formatted television, internet portals, games offers and within a trend towards the resolution of age specific audience productions?
Assuming the classical CHILDREN’S FILM still has an original importance, what conditions are required for these films to have an effect in public? What contents are suitable, what projection conditions and forms of distribution should be developed? How important are international collaborations, and how do you deal with different language offers?

Keynote address:
"The situation of the international children's film"

Panelists:

• Beate Voelcker, children's film project supervisor at Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film in Wiesbaden
• Felix Vanginderhuysen, managing director of ECFA, “Jekino” film distributor, Brussels
• Dr. Wassili Kusnezow, Goethe-Institut Moscow
• Bernd Sahling, director, Berlin