The Chania Film Festival, for yet another school year, designs, implements and offers Educational Programs to the educational community and invites those who are interested to participate in them.

We note that for the school year 2022-23 the PARTICIPATION in all the Educational Programs and Activities of the Chania Film Festival IS DONE WITHOUT ANY FINANCIAL BURDEN of the Teachers and the students who attend them.

Registrations are made only electronically at the following addresses, exclusively UNTIL 23 OCTOBER 2022

In this context, the Chania Film Festival offers two (2) categories of Programs, of annual duration and rapid implementation.

The annual programmes provide for monthly meetings while the fast-paced ones have short growth cycles.

The Programs and Educational Activities of the Chania Film Festival are designed to be implemented using a mixed teaching method in person and remotely (synchronous and asynchronous).

All educational programs and actions of the Chania Film Festival are implemented under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, while they are also approved for implementation in the School Community by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, following a positive recommendation by the Institute of Educational Policy. [Decision 766/DG4 of 22-06-2022]

The Director of the Chania Film Festival

Matthaios Frantzeskakis

Ten years of Chania Film Festival, 2012-2022!!! ...

Since the establishment of the Chania Film Festival (CFF), special emphasis has been given to the development of film education and more broadly the audiovisual education of children and young people. In this context, educational programs of film literacy and creation are developed. Every year, activities are not limited to ten days of screenings and workshops. At the end of the Festival, not only the preparations for the next year begin, but also the implementation of the annual training and educational activities and short-term activities.

The Programs have educational character (aimed at teachers, animators, students, parents) and, at the same time, have educational character, as the knowledge and skills acquired by adults in training on audiovisual (film literacy) issues are invited to transfer them to the classroom or workshop, designing and implementing activities with children and young people.

By participating in the Programs, teachers and students take steps towards their film literacy.

∙Know the methods and techniques by which the film product is produced (narratives, documentaries, animation, etc.).
∙ Develop a critical attitude towards film products (expressive conventions and visual media).
∙ They approach social issues through films.
∙ They use audiovisual tools to develop personal expression skills (creation of audiovisual products).

A particular goal for teachers is to acquire skills in designing film literacy activities and implementing them either at school or in the context of informal education.

The proposed activities are adapted to the age level of the children to whom it is addressed (from kindergarten to high school), have a playful and attractive form, as they avoid the schooled character.

The trainers are academics, special scientists, film professionals, education executives and educational associates / ideas of the Chania Film Festival with experience in the implementation of film literacy programs.

Trainees are provided with educational and training material in electronic form (asynchronous education platform). At the same time, full educational support is provided.

Participants are given attestations and/or certifications by the ACTA organization, depending on the program.

PROPOSED PROGRAMS AND ACTIONS 2022-2023

A. Film Club at the School

Short description:
The teacher and the students of the class or school group create a film club at school.

Level of education:
Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior/Senior High School

Description: Return
to the social character of cinema, with the creation of film clubs in the school units of primary and secondary education. Teachers and students watch cinematic films (narratives, documentaries, animation, etc.). Then, approaching the film, they carry out activities in a playful form and get to know the methods and techniques by which the film product is produced (codes, expressive conventions and visual media).

https://forms.gle/p2otHRcBHGyB7fJbA

B.Cine Lessons / Creating a Film in a School Environment

Short description:
Teachers and a school film team create a short film CREATE A FILM in a School Environment, with emphasis on documentary that draws material from local and oral history.

EXCLUSIVELY for schools of the Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of CHANIA

Level of education:
Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior/Senior High School

Description: The
participants approach and present the basic terms of cinema and cinematic expression - with emphasis on narrative films, through the design and implementation of experiential actions and expression exercises. The above knowledge and experiences are transferred to the classrooms and the school team with the support of the program and the supervision of the trainer is led to the complete creation. They jointly attend training sessions on the basic principles of film creation and acquaintance with the means of cinema, elaborate their scripted proposal and with the support of the program and the supervision of the trainer proceed to the shooting of the film. This is followed by the decoding of the material and the editing of the film. The complete film of each school group is posted on a special channel of the Chania International Film Festival.

Registration: https://forms.gle/rNmNWAzw6e2m4zvV9

 

C. Make a photo-story!

Short description: Teachers
and students of a school class or group approach photos and create photos and photo-stories.

Level of education:
Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior/Senior High School

Description:The aim of the program's activities is for teachers and students to enjoy the enchanting world of photography, to approach photographs empirically, to express their feelings, to reveal the intentions of the creators of photographers, to get to know the tools and techniques of photography, and finally, to create photographs Teachers participate monthly in training, in person or remotely and are initiated into the study of photographic codes and techniques and the creation of photographic products. Then they organize a photo workshop in the classroom for their students. Students photograph and create photo-stories using creative writing techniques.

https://forms.gle/bUcb3W5Tah2eZgrD6

D. "Voices" - oral history in the foreground

Short description:
Teachers and a school team explore oral history topics.

Level of education:
Primary school, Gymnasium/Lyceum

Description: The
participants are sensitized, and the members of the local community multiply, to issues of local, public and oral history and create, after training and education, a nuclear team of oral history researchers in thematic areas related to the history of Crete. They acquire skills in historical research, planning an oral interview, technical processing of oral interview material, archiving material and creating a repository of oral interviews and utilization of oral testimonies for use in the community and in education.

https://forms.gle/c4gfnzeh39cf4vW47

 

E. Animation for children and teenagers

Short description: Teachers
and students of a school class or group know the codes and become familiar with the tools and techniques of creating animation. Then they create animation.

Level of education:
Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior/Senior High School

Description: The
program includes the acquaintance and familiarization of trainees with the semantical, ideological, psychological, aesthetic tricks-codes through the viewing and approach of animation and at the same time familiarization with animation production techniques. The aim is to design and implement literacy activities and animation creation - small productions - in the classroom by students or in creative workshops in the context of school and formal -non-school- education.

https://forms.gle/Y61rCdC8FwkrMbyF8

G. Cinema and Creative Writing

Short description:
Strategies (techniques) for writing film scripts by adults and children.

Description: Training program with the methodology of asynchronous distance education (feedback synchronous distance learning sessions are provided). It includes approaches to ready-made film products/scripts (script structure) and scriptwriting workshops. Trainees, through exercises/activities, know and apply a number of script-writing techniques. Activities include: the script in the cinematic genres, expressive media, thematic motifs, the structure of the narrative, the hero, the plot, the style, the space and time, the dialogues, etc. At the same time, techniques for initiating children into writing scripts are proposed (Writing original scripts with children, Getting to know the protagonist-The journey of the protagonist, How do we turn a literary story into a script? films as stimuli and technical models for writing scripts or narratives, Digital stories-DigitalStorytelling)

https://forms.gle/cuKdBtsF7N3cXJWk9

The. Breakfast at the cinema - Activity workshop

Short description:
Teachers and students of a school class make a two-hour educational visit to a local cinema or simulation room (In the City of Chania). They participate in playful film literacy activities.

Duration:
2 hours (with the possibility of carrying out activities in the classroom before and after the visit)

Level of education:
Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior/Senior High School

Description: The
educational program includes a two-hour educational visit of students of a school class accompanied by teachers in a local cinema or simulation room. Participants in the workshop will get acquainted with the methods and techniques by which the film product is produced and will develop personal expression skills.

There is a choice between three actions/workshops:

∙ Cinematic games (watching a motion picture and getting to know the cinematic codes (music, protagonists, twists, shots, camera position, etc.)
∙ Cinema yesterday and today (acquaintance with the steps of the evolution of cinema - from the first machines for the representation of movement, the films of the Lumière Brothers, the silent cinema until today).
∙ A scene from a film (initiation into cinematography with the construction of a cinematic scene).

Teachers and students are given the opportunity (optionally) to implement activities in the classroom, before and after the visit.

https://forms.gle/Xeqg5WW6YYCAaUtaA

Register

–ONLY ELECTRONICALLY AND UNTIL SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2022-

in one or more of the programmes or actions by completing the application form that you will find at the end of each programme.

 

 

Matthaios Frantzeskakis

Director of the Chania Film Festival