Camera Zizanio

Α brief report of 15th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People and 12th Camera Zizanio

The 15thOlympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People -with films that drew the admiration of thousands of spectators- and the 12th Camera Zizanio -with youth audiovisual creations that surprised everyone with the new generation’s imagination and expressiveness, were organized in an extremely fertile and creative ambiance.

The surprisingly wish by the youngsters and the oldest to participate in the festival, had as result to continue the events for six more days, due to sold out during the main week of events (1-8 December), with more than 21,456 spectators!

In the hallmarks of this year’s festival, we highlight the declaration of the minister of Culture to proceed with the institutionalization of the festival but also the unstoppable and moving wave of support from thousands of friends, who rushed to support it when it’s funding was threatened.

So, Olympia Festival and Camera Zizanio updates the rendezvous for their next editions (16th Olympia Festival and 13^th Camera Zizanio) on November 30, 2013…

Below is a brief report in numbers …

15th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People and 12th Camera Zizanio in numbers.

Τhe total number of spectators was 21.456, which 17.584 watched the screenings and 3.872 attended the parallel events or participated in various activities. In details:

• 7.067 spectators at the screenings of 51 films at the Competition Program of the 15th Olympia Film Festival.

• 1.200 spectators at the screenings of  351 films of 12th Camera Zizanio.

• 9.317 spectators at the 11 cinemas of the Parallel program “Zoom in European Children’s Films”.

• 2.698 participants at the Side events ( Theatrical performance:My name is… Cloud, Photography Exhibion by ERT, authors at Schools, the Theatrical Play in Kindergarten Theatre in Classroom, Lullabies, Polyphonic song, screening of films produced during the film workshops, Write on our walls and Walls… differently).

• 1.174 students, university students, teachers that participated at the Film Workshops, in which 25 films were created– among them and 11 films from the second “part” of Mythos Project. (All those films are available at https://camerazizanio.net/2012-2/videos/)