Camera Zizanio

Ευρωπαϊκή Συνάντηση Νεανικής Οπτικοακουστικής Δημιουργίας

Wow! Camera Zizanio is Launched!

The 11th meeting of Camera Zizanio, was launched on Saturday 3rd of December with the presence of hundreds of students from various parts of Greece.

A number of them had to travel long in order to get to Pyrgos, as the students and teachers from Kavala, who took a 12-hour journey! It took less hours for those who arrived from Serres, Thessaloniki, Parga, Preveza, Livadia.

The presence of students, especially from primary schools from Athens, Glyfada, Elliniko, Papagou, Cholargos, Aghioi Anargiroi, was also notable.

The whole of Saturday as well as Sunday morning, was dedicated to the screenings of the Greek Section.

At noon, between the screenings, there were cinematic workshops for the children from the various parts of Greece, while the younger ones had the chance to experiment in the making of an animation movie at the special box, located at the lobby of the Conference Centre.

The screenings of the European Section and the International Panorama start on Monday the 5th of December, and the international groups have already started to arrive. The first group includes young people from Spain, Serbia and Lithuania.


On Friday, 2 December, in a full to capacity Apollo Theater, the first side even of the Festival took place: the theatrical performance of Aristophanes play, the Birds. The classical comedy in an imaginative adaptation and the ingenious direction of Georgina Kakoudaki, enchanted young and old.

Catalogue 2011

If you like to know more about a particular film, or the Camera Zizanio 2011, you can browse the festival catalogue here.

The festival catalogue 2011 is online on scribd

  • Please click here to download the catalogue in PDF format.

LINE OF DEFENSE

When we launched the Olympia International film Festival for Children and Young People 15 years ago, and Camera Zizanio 4 years after that, we knew that this was no easy task. A film Festival is not a simple cultural event.

It has special requirements if it aspires to correspond to the high standards of a quality organization that highlights the novel, the pioneering, that does not exclude but reveals, does not close off but opens out to new possibilities. Even more so, when it addresses children and young people and has a clear pedagogical perspective.

However, in a society where everything is considered a commodity, even human work and dignity, events without a financial return, when they are not perceived as dangerous, are redundant.  The “market society” does not recognize investments in art and culture.

In the current crisis conditions, where everything is subject to “budget targets” and the lives of millions are regulated by monstrous and impersonal “rating agencies”, culture is taking massive blows. Not only in Greece, which is in the eye of the tornado, but on an international level as well. But without art, society is driven towards barbarism.

This is what arms us with the power to continue swimming against the current. Because we know that the future that we dream of is by going forward. With very limited means, a lot of sacrifices but with confidence for what is right, we carry on. This is a commitment to the young generation. We consider the Olympia Film Festival and Camera Zizanio to be a reserve trench, a line of defence against the storm that threatens to shatter the social fabric.

Come join us into reinforcing it.

Nikos Theodosiou

Artistic Director of Camera Zizanio

The Dodecalogue of “Mythos project”

Here you will find some Useful Information about  “The Mythos Project”

1. The Mythos project is open to everyone, even to those who don’t want to participate in its technical part. Main purpose is to create an overview of the social and financial situation via collective work through young people’s of today eyes, when they are disappointed, but also when they are hopeful. Read more of this post

WE ARE SAYING “DA” IN LIFE!

(Photo by Lorant Fulop)

For one more year the courageous people from Kids Animation Studio DA, St. Petersburg will be with us at the 11th Camera Zizanio and the 14th Olympia International Film Festival. Read more of this post