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REMEMBER DECEMBER

2 Comments Posted by on November 29, 2009

In memory of Alexis

One year ago, on the 6th of December 2008, when some 15years old children were coming on the stage of Ilia’s Prefecture in order to receive their awards, a 15years old child in Athens was falling dead from police officers’ bullets. His name was  Alexis Grigoropoulos.

A bit later, when Olympia’s Film Festival and Camera Zizanio’s ceremony lights turned off, the fires of a juvenile revolt, that convulsed the whole country for one month, turned on.

One year later we are expecting our new celebration of young people’s audiovisual creation on the 4th to 12th of December. But, last December is still alive. No one forgot as after that December nothing is the same.

From Camera Zizanio’s friends, especially the ones abroad we would like them to tell us how do they -and society in general- feel about what happened in Greece.

They may send short texts at camerazizanio@gmail.com. Texts can be in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German. We will publish them in our blog. In memory of Alexis.

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CAMERA ZIZANIO ‘09 in few words…

Leave a comment Posted by on November 25, 2009

CAMERA ZIZANIO ‘09 in few words…

During the nine years of Camera Zizanio’s presence in Greece it appears to consolidate one of the fundamental objectives: develop the audiovisual creation of young people in Greece and make it one of the basic elements of the educational process.

This year the Greek participations of Camera Zizanio exceeded any other of the past and reached the 77 (60 last year). Actually, this number doesn’t reflect the total Greek production. Many films are not included as they were out of the timeline or their duration was over the 10 minutes that regulations define.

And something more: we also have two participations from kindergartens (last year it was one). This marks a jump as it shows that there are teachers who realise the benefit of the audiovisual education offered to children in their very first age.

It must be mentioned that all these happen when no program, centrally directed in national level, is in progress and all work is based on the individual initiatives of schools, teachers or children.

Behind the 20% of Greek participations, the initiatives of the Olympia’s Film Festival collaborators or teachers are hidden. These people developed their knowledge and gained experience through our educational activity, including the films created in the framework of the 1st Skopelos International Film Festival for Youth. It was a successful initiative that was fully supported by Camera Zizanio and Olympia Film Festival.

New record is also registered by the international participations that reach the 390(!), emanate from 26 countries of Europe. That marks an enlargement of our international family as Turkey and Romania are also added this year for first time.

This year, in the International Panorama participated films from 6 countries, including, for first time, Indonesia and Taiwan- China.

But Camera Zizanio is not only a “Festival”, is a big workshop of audiovisual education. Since 2008, Camera Zizanio established the separate presentation of work for the cinematographic abroad workshops in order to exchange experiences, develop research and dialogue.

This year the work of the educational camps of Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA) in South Korea will be presented. We have the honour to attend the presentation of DIMA by the professor of the faculty, the director Wangtae Lim, which at the same time will be member of the International Jury of OlympiaInternational Film Festival for Youth and Young People.

From this year Camera Zizanio moves forward to one more innovation concerning the cinematographic workshops realised during the festival, breaking the known form: adults teach children. Now children will teach their coevals. Dombi Botond and Dombi Szabolcs, two brothers 15 and 11 years old from Romania will share their knowledge in animation technique with children in Pyrgos and will create films with them.

The team of Zizanio Live, the group of children which create daily short documentary films and deal with the internet promotion of Festival’s activities, this year promises a more intense presence with many hours live program seeking for an interactive participation of even more children from all over the world.

And two big private contributions:

  • The independent music record company Puzzlemusik and its cooperating composers decided to offer a large amount of musical compositions free of rights for the young creators of Camera Zizanio! The compositions will be used for the sound investment of their films which won’t face any problem in their distribution.
  • The Educational Group Domi, grants a scholarship for the attendance of a script writing seminar (which is organised in collaboration with the Greek Scriptwriters Guild) for the creator of the best film in the category C (17-20 years).
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MUSIC FOR ALL!

1 Comment Posted by on November 20, 2009

CAMERA ZIZANIO is able to make a very pleasant announcement for young filmmakers.

Puzzlemusik

The independent record company Puzzlemusik decided to make a music library consisted by music from its albums which will be free from rights in order to be used in the films created by the participants of Camera Zizanio.

The selected music compositions cover many different kinds of music, as:  classical, jazz, juzz-funk, instrumental, rock, post-rock, neu-folk, electronica, ambient, etc.

So, it’s a very useful tool for the sound tracks of the films.

This is an amazing offer, which we accepted with enthusiasm as constitutes a great solution for young creators who:

  • Had limitations in promoting their films at the festivals abroad as the regulations on copyright are very strict
  • Saw their films being downloaded or ruined by youtube when they used music from commercial albums.

CAMERA ZIZANIO wants to thank by heart Puzzlemusik record company and all the cooperating composers for that great offer which opens new horizons of cooperation between professionals and young creators.

  • Puzzlemusik’s touching letter

The independent music label Puzzlemusik is glad to offer a musical library consisted by music from its releases, which will be free from rights in order to be used in the films created by the participants of Camera Zizanio.
The selected music compositions cover many different kinds of music, as:
instrumental, indie, post-rock, neu-folk, electronica, ambient, jazz, jazz-funk, classical etc.

We truly hope that , via this cooperation, and this artistic route of communication, our music will be able to inspire you and make you travel with it – as it did for us -and finally, co-march with your artistic interests and efforts.

With our best and by heart wishes,

for many and beautiful artistic creations…

Christos Alexopoulos(“Vouveau”, “Parapounes & Triafyntalla”)

Baby trio & George Kontrafouris (“The main course”, “A new snack”)

Sotiris Debonos(“Film Musik”)

Duo Choriambus (“Dialogues”)

Felizol (“Birthdays”)

Manolis Galiatsos(“Seas of faint simmers”)

Hellenic Trio (“Works of Greek composers I ” )

J. Kriste, Master of Disguise (“Girls, Ghosts and Gods”)

Yiannis Kassetas & The funk wizards (“The truth about the alien invasion in Egypt”)

George Kontrafouris(“The storyteller”)

Misuse (“Misuse”)

Babis Papadopoulos (“Scenes from a journey”)

Poly quartet (“Perfumed Dreams”)

Socos (“Sub breath, Outer Speech”)

Socos & The Live Project Band ( “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”, ”Kafka”)

Puzzlemusik

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Puzzlemusik, 3 Evrota str,  Haidari,  Postal Code: 124 61  Tel. & Fax No: + 210 5316496

e-mail: puzzlemusik@gmail.com

Web page: www.myspace.com/puzzlemusik

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International meeting in Olympia

2 Comments Posted by on November 12, 2009

banner_orthioThe friends from abroad, that will visit Greece in order to participate in the 9th edition of Camera Zizanio, will have the chance to attend an significant international meeting, that will take place in Ancient Olympia.

You can find more information about the Meeting, at the first announcement below.

And for those who will not be able to be with us.. the Zizanio Live team will broadcast the Meeting live on the Internet.

EUROPEAN MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATIONS

“The Cinema for Children and Young People: all around the world, in Europe, in Greece”

The Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People in collaboration with the European Children’ s Film Assocation (E.C.F.A.), are organising a European Meeting with international participations in the subject of:

“Cinema for Children and Young People: all around the world, in Europe, in Greece”

The Meeting will be held Sunday, December 6,  2009 (09.00 -15.00) at the Conference Centre of the Ministry of Culture, in Ancient Olympia.

The aim of the Meeting is the bringing up to date, of  the institutions and professionals in the audiovisual field, the institutional bodies of cinema and education, the educators, as well as everybody who is active in the area of the mental and psychological development of children and young people, for the international, the European and Greek reality specifically on the “Cinema for Children and Young People”.

The subject of the Meeting is extremely timely, since on the one hand three months ago, the issue of the “Cinema for Children and Young People in the European Union countries”, was the object of a joint meeting of the Ministers of Education and Culture in the European  Union, and on the other hand, we are expecting the new legislation concerning the cinema, in Greece.

The thematic units will be as following:

–           The cultural  and educational  dimension of the Cinema for Children and Young People.

–          The  particularities of the Cinema for Children and Young People as artistic creation. Particularities in production. The alternative distribution networks.

–          The Cinema for Children and Young People and Cinematic Education: Communicating Vessels.

–          The Cinema for Children and Young People in the countries of the European Union.

–          The Cinema for Children and Young People in Greece: the lack of an institutional frame, lack of production, prevalence of blockbusters and the pop corn logic. The innovative actions of the Olympia Festival and the Youth Plan.

–          Joint International Productions.

–          The examples of South Korea, the Scandinavian countries, Hungary and Poland.

–          The leading paradigm of Denmark.

We welcome suggestions for possible expansion of the subjects.

The speakers list is open and will be finalised on the 18th of November 2009.

In the frame of the optimum preparation for the Meeting we have created the  following  blog, http://olympiameeting.wordpress.com, in order to serve as a place of dialogue and communication through which you can find updates concerning the Meeting and you’ll be able to “upload” contributions, comments, suggestions

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Entries closed!

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The film entries for the 9th Camera Zizanio are now closed.

We would like to thank the hundreds of young filmmakers who submitted their films.

We will select 100 works, more or less, for the competition section of the
festival, which will take place in December.

For filmmakers who wish to submit films from now on, please note that our next call for entries will open on September 1st, 2010.

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Thanks to all again,
Nikos Theodosiou

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