EducaTIFF at its third edition. News and challenges for children and teens | TIFF

EducaTIFF at its third edition. News and challenges for children and teens

12.05.2011 03:00

Initiated in 2009, at the 8th edition of Transilvania International Film Festival, EducaTIFF aims to direct the interest of young and very young audiences towards the seventh art. Through this initiative, TIFF takes on the mission to shape, starting at a very young age, an educated film public,  its efforts mirroring other European programmes. The successful first two editions have encouraged the organizers to develop this educational platform, launching new challenges for pre-university students and teachers. Thus, between May 21 – June 12, EducaTIFF has organized, in parallel with the screening and debates programme, a local competition dedicated to 2nd through 12th graders, EducaTIFF – Young Film Critics of Cluj.

This competition invites children and young people to express their critic opinion on viewed films, through an established formula – the film review, and it will take place in two stages: selection of the nominees – May 21 – 29, and designation of the winners – May 30 – June 11. For each of the two stages, there will be a screening programme of films carefully selected on age groups. The 3 most talented film critics, designated by a jury made up of film industry professionals and personalities, will have the opportunity to see their reviews published in AperiTIFF – the official newspaper of Transilvania International Film Festival, as well as in other Romanian cultural printed media.

A major part in this competition is played by school teachers, responsible for students signing up. To reward the effort and support shown by teachers towards the film education programme, the organizers have decided that each school teacher who signs up at least 20 students from the class they are accompanying at the EducaTIFF competition screenings will receive a Certificate of Merit.

The EducaTIFF films, which will be subject to the young critics' scrutiny, have been carefully selected, depending on age groups, most of them being award-winners at various international film festivals. The young viewers will have the opportunity to review films such as Persepolis (d. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi), winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Animation Feature, The Class (d. Laurent Cantet), Palme d'Or winner in Cannes, or I am Kalam (d.  Nila Madhab Panda), awarded at several international film festivals for children and young people, such as LUCAS International Children's Film Festival (Frankfurt) or CINEKID International Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children and Young People (Amsterdam).

EducaTIFF is a film & media education programme dedicated to pre-university students and teachers from the county of Cluj, initiated by Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF).

For more details on the EducaTIFF 2011 competition and films, please visit the page dedicated to EducaTIFF on our website, www.tiff.ro.

EducaTIFF is supported by the Cluj School Inspectorate and by the „Octavian Goga” County Library in Cluj-Napoca.