A FUTURE IN FRAMES
Eight Sydney Film School films have recently screened at the 3rd International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, one of the biggest Children film festivals in the world and the biggest one in South Asia.
Selected to screen were dramas Day Out by Chino Saavedra, Power Games by Nick Ferraris, The Forest by Johan Rossel, Tofu Christmas by Jung A Hwang, Citizen#1 by Ben Wilson and Now You See Me by Nick Radford and short documentaries Mickey by Ben Wilson and Dark To White by Abu Emon. (More about films can be found in our Film Database)
The International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh is a week-long festival organized by the Children's Film Society Bangladesh, an organization established in 2006 realizing that the film, as the most powerful media of art at the present time was not being used for children properly as a strong tool of learning and entertainment.
The festival’s main objectives are to open a new world of cinema to the children of Bangladesh and to give them an exposure to culture and traditions of different countries through film.
One of the main goals of the organization is to expose children to the basic idea of filmmaking and to create their interest for the media, to create a suitable environment for children to learn and use film to develop themselves positively and also contribute in the society.
Formed in a meeting by Bangladeshi leading educationists, writers, cultural and film society activists, the Children’s Film Society Bangladesh has become a common cine-platform where children enjoy movies, discuss film, participate at different film sessions or workshops and learn how to make movies. Through the Children's Film Society Bangladesh, children make a film community that supports and inspires their creativity.
The society started its operation in September 2006 by organizing a 3-day long film session at the auditorium of Goethe-Institute Bangladesh. As part of its regular activities, the society now organizes monthly screenings and sessions of children's films of different countries for its members. The biggest events have however been the three successfully organized International Children’s Film Festivals.
This year the International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh was held from January 23 to 29, simultaneously in 7 different venues, and has screened a rich program of 156 short, animation, documentary and feature-length films suitable for or made by children from 40 countries including Bangladesh. Nine Australian films were shown, amongst them eight produced in Sydney Film School.
With the slogan ‘Future in Frames’, the festival was attended by a significant audience - 30,000 + (18,000 children, 12,000 adult).
Beside film screenings the festival hosted a day-long workshop for children, a seminar on children’s film and opportunities for children filmmakers to share the experience with prominent personalities – established guest filmmakers.
A seven-point festival declaration was read out at the closing ceremony demanding state support and social awareness for making films for children in the country.
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