1,600 invited guests and millions of TV viewers watched the awards ceremony in the Berlinale Palast. Also, many of the celebrity guests who had attended the festival over the last ten days didn't miss the chance to participate in the festive closing event of this year's Berlinale. A night of suspense culminated in the announcement of the main prize, the Golden Bear, going to La teta asustada. Jury president Tilda Swinton and festival director Dieter Kosslick handed the trophee to Claudia Llosa, Magaly Solier, José María Morales and Antonio Chavarrias, the director, the leading actress and the producers of the winning film. Finally, Eden à l'ouest, directed by Costa-Gavras, was shown as the festival's closing film ... more at
Milano Film Festival 2009 Call for entries 2009 - International Competition
The fourteenth edition of Milano Film Festival will take place from 11th to 20th september 2009. International feature film competition
The feature film competition is open to first and second films of any genre, language, format and running time, provided that they were completed after January 1st, 2008. The works will not be divided into categories. International short film competition
The short film competition is open to films of any genre, language, format and running time, provided that they were completed after January 1st, 2008. The works will not be divided into categories. More
Reel Teens Festival
Our annual Festival celebrates the creative intelligence of young people by screening films and videos made by teenagers from across America, and around the world. The Project is our initiative to bring filmmaking courses using video to middle and high schools. We are also taking the best of the Reel Teens Festival to schools, film festivals, and theaters throughout the United States. We invite you to enter your film or video in the festival by submitting it along with the required application. Feel free to contact us, we welcome your comments and ideas. More
Twentieth edition of the Prix Danube
International television festival PRIX DANUBE creates space for a creative environment in television production for children and youth. It establishes an international platform for a better knowledge of European and international television production for children and youth and by way of competition, it acknowledges the most creative programmes with a humanistic mission. Festival programme also includes events as workshops or discussions which can help improve filmmaking or TV business. More
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
For more than 30 years, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival has set new standards for what children’s festivals can achieve. As the largest and longest running children’s film program in North America, the CICFF discovers the best in world cinema, featuring over 200 films from 40 countries. By continually raising the bar for quality children’s programming the CICFF has become the only Academy-qualifying children’s festival in the world. With year round programs, audiences of 30,000 and more than 100 directors in attendance, the CICFF redefines children’s media. More...
Tehran International Animation Festival owes its significance to the great receival by the well-known animation artists from different countries of the world; This attention has been so much that in the fifth edition of the festival more than 500 Iranian films and 61 countries participated with their works that included distinguished animation movies awarded by well known international festivals as well as Oscar winning and Oscar nominated movies.
According to this report, Tehran International Animation Festival, this year will be held in four main sections of the competition that include Iran Competition, International Competition and Out of Competition, Special Screening and Panorama. More
26th INTERNATIONAL YOUNG AUDIENCE,
FILM FESTIVAL ALE KINO!
CIFEJ Prize Buda az sharm foru rikht / Buddha Collapsed out of Shame
Hana Makhmalbaf
The jury decided to give the CIFEJ Prize to this extraordinary film because it highlighted a prevalent issue that is devastating the rights of children the world over. It is a touching, simple and universal story relevant across borders and international cultures. More
CIFEJ WALL CALENDAR 2009, A GIFT FROM KANOON-IRAN
CIFEJ DESK CALENDAR 2009, A GIFT FROM KANOON-IRAN
IF YOU LIKE TO HAVE THIS GREAT WALL OR DESK KALENDAR AND YOU ARE MEMBER OF CIFEJ PLEASE SEND TO US YOUR POST ADDRESS AND KANOON WILL SEND TO YOU HAD COPIES OF THE WALL AND DESK CALENDARS FOR 2009!
BOARD MEETING, JOHANNESBURG
The Johannesburg Board meeting was a resounding success. The Board managed
to complete a very packed agenda and we have some interesting highlights to
share with all CIFEJ members. So whilst the credit crunch and global
meltdown is taking over all news - the good news is that like Obama - the
CIFEJ Board has managed against all odds to say YES WE CAN! We have
succeeded to find solutions to many challenges and the main solution is that
we have an interim HQ hosted by Kanoon in Iran with a budget that will
ensure the lifeline of CIFEJ for the next 3-5 years! We are also pleased to
announce the GA will take place in Taipei, Taiwan in June '09 and that we
will be having a CIFEJ Production Office based in Poland with support from
the Polish Filmmakers Association offering CIFEJ members the opportunities
for co-productions and project development support. So CIFEJ will return to
one of its primary mandates of providing opportunities for producing
Children's Films!
We managed to overcome many hurdles to ensure that CIFEJ would have a new
life- we wish you all a very pleasant December break- Merry Xmas! Eid
Mubarak! Happy Holidays! May your New Year be filled with all that you hope
for!
Best Regards,
Firdoze Bulbulia, Sec-General, CIFEJ
FICI-Festival Internacional de Cine Para la Infancia y la Juventud CIFEJ Winner: El Angel del Acordeon, Director: Maria Camila Lizarazo Poncho, a good 12 year old, poor but talented for Music has 2 dreams: get his own Accordion to compete in Music Contests and win the Heart of Sara Maria the girl of his dreams....Sara has promised her preference to the boy 'capable of composing a song that will touch her deeply'. Our young hero faces multiple challenges, including his reticent farmer Dad, or Pepe his young, rich and dangerous rival...they all meet again in their late Teens,
when stakes are even higher and lessons to be taught from life & the rich culture of Colombian music ("ballenato") simply unique.
23-26 October,
Cinekid for Professionals
Cinekid for Professionals is the place to be for anybody involved with Children and the Media. Readings, seminars, a change to meet fellow professionals, screenings of the best and latest international productions and an opportunity to be kept up to date with very latest developments and trends. Cinekid for Professionals is proud to present the first outline of the programme...
15-23 November,
The International Children's Film Festival Vienna
The International Children's Film Festival Vienna has itsself devoted to show high quality films besides the mainstream apt to entertain a public of children between 4 and 14 according to their needs and predilicts. In annual repetition we try to show to our public the world's best children's films of the latest, a retrospective about a special subject, and lectures and workshops on the subject in general.
Our competition includes eleven feature films of all over the world. We have a children's jury of 10 to 12 children from age 10 to 13, who select the great jury award of the festival as well as the Unicef Award, which goes to the film that deals best with children's rights.
In the last two years we have begun to spread our acitivities all over the year, giving lectures for children about film in schools and special workshops. We hope we can do more in this field of media education and are constantly widening and deepening our work on it...
Little Knowledge is Dangerous images
KFK Africa
The 2nd Kids For Kids Africa competition was held in Nairobi, Kenya, in the frame work of the 3rd annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media initiative for children and youth in eastern Africa.
For the second time since 2007 when Films by Children for Children won the Grand Prize at the 5th World Summit on Media and Children/1st Kids for Kids Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, a Lola Kenya Screen production described by the jury as “a funny and educational film with a clear message that makes
you just want to learn. It is a film for and by children”, took the Kids for Kids Africa prize at the 2nd Kids for Kids Africa held in the framework of the 3rd Lola Kenya Screen...
The Tel Aviv Intenational Children’s Film Festival, held at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, is now concluded. Thousands of children from all parts of the country came to see the films. Thanks to the efforts of the Friendship Foundation, headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, more than 400 children from locations close to Gaza, Ashkelon, Dimona and elsewhere were able to attend...
Dear CIFEJ members, if you like to have CIFEJ e-mail address (“yourname”@cifej.com or “yourorganization”@cifej.com) please write me what you would like your address to look like!
Best regards, Miomir
