Camera Zizanio

The Chocolate Gate

It is not one or two but ten young audiovisual creations from Greece who have the good fortune to participate in festivals abroad and those only for October.

Namely: Four films from Greece are participating in the competition section for young audiovisual creation of Wildlife Vaasa festival which will be held from 1-5 October 2014 in Finland.  The Wildlife Vaasa festival specializes in films about the environment and is taking place every two years.

The Greek participations are:

“Chocolate Gate”, 3rd elementary school of Loutraki

“On the way to the oasis”, animation workshop in the framework of ANIMASYROS

“I dream, don’t give-up, I live”, 6th High-School of Patras

“1, 2, 3 … 15”, 9th PrimarySchoolo of Ag. Dimitrios

In Dubrovnik Film Festival (DUFF) which will take place 17-20 October 2014 at the beautiful city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, six films from Greece will participate. In Dubrovnik Film Festival are participating and competing films that have been created from children and young people from Mediterranean countries.

The Greek participations are:

a) in the category of up to 15 years,

“I dream, don’t give-up, I live”, 6th High-School of Patras

“Chocolate Gate”, 3rd elementary school of Loutraki.

b) in category 16-20 years,

“The pen”, 1st Standard Experimental High School of Athens

“Maybe there is hope”, 1st Lyceum of Pyrgos

“Mama don’t cry, we’ll speak through Skype”, 1^st EPAL of Argos, SEK of Argos and ERAS of Argos

“Charlie’s smile”, EPAL of Agios Nikolaos Lasithi Crete.

Let’s note that all the films, except one that is very recent, participated in Camera Zizanio 2013.  And most of them gained acclaim!
The film “1, 2, 3 … 15 ‘ of the 9th primary school of Agios Dimitrios won the third prize in category A(children up to 12 years old).
The film “the pen” of the1st Standard Experimental High School of Athens won the first prize in category B (children 13-16 years old).