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Lost in cinema 

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Exploring realities and discovering new expressive media

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In 2016, in an age when children and young people receive much of their education, information and entertainment via moving images it is suggested that children and young people should similarly be enabled to be media literate too. Film literacy enables them to understand how the film and moving image texts that they consume make meaning, encourages them to watch films from a variety of sources and inspires them to create films of their own. In so doing they are empowered to be culturally literate – to be able to ‘read’ the films and moving image texts they see every day and ‘write’ their own for others to watch too.

 

However, for most young people, if they experience film education at all it is as isolated episodes that lack consistency and progression. In Kidoglaz we want to move film education on from being a series of disconnected experiences to becoming an integral part of every young person’s life – a systematic process in which confidence and articulacy grow by having the opportunity to see a wide range of films, to gain a critical understanding of film and to enjoy the creative activity of filmmaking.

Film education:

• Provides children and young people with opportunities to watch a wide range of film – in cinemas, schools and elsewhere, using new technologies and platforms;

• Encourages learning, critical understanding, writing, speaking, listening, debate and conversation about films and the issues and emotions they raise;

• Enables children and young people to use film as a vehicle for their own creativity, and encourages the film industry to respect their voices.

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