Teaching and Journeying with Children
By Matthaios Frantzeskakis, Chania Film Festival director
When the lights go out, the journey begins. And the journey is unique each time.
Cinema is magical and the journey is unparalleled, especially when the artistic and creative planets align…
Cinema, besides being magical, is always and especially influential. From the beginning of its history when the means were rudimentary to today when technology allows unique effects. Yet always the story mattered…
Speaking for years now to children about cinema, history, techniques, the codes of ART in other words, and perceiving this influence, I always travel with the children. With their innocence but also the directness of their questions. With their clear gaze…
Children who are enchanted by the projector and film. Children who identify with heroes. Children who laugh and cry. Children who have questions. Who judge, accept, and reject …Children…!
Together with the children we set as our first goal “to have fun” through our engagement with cinema. As spectators and as creators. To enjoy the journey. To rejoice and to live the magic. To enjoy… Only we willll we be able to talk about film education, which is a perpetual goal. When we travel with joy and inner fullness… Then ONLY is the journey magical and educational!
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About the Educational Programs of the 13th Chania Film Festival
- They are under the auspices and supported by theHellenic Parliament,
- They are under the auspicesof the Ministriesof Culture, Education – Religious Affairs and Sports, Tourism and the Hellenic Tourism Organization.
- They are under the auspices and supported by the Hellenic Tourism Organization, the Representation of the European CommissioninGreece.
- They have as their Strategic and Financial Supporter theHellenic Center for Cinema, Audiovisual Media and Creation [EKKOMED]
- They are supported by theChania Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- They are ajoint organization of theRegion of Crete, theMunicipalities of Chania, PlataniasandKissamos andtheCultural Center of Chania.
- They areplanned and implemented by theCultural Society of Crete,
See below the daily program of screenings and other events of the 13th Chania Film Festival
