Camera Zizanio

Camera Zizanio, the European Meeting of Young People’s Audiovisual Creation, is celebrating its 10th anniversary!

This year, Camera Zizanio will take place from December 11 to 18, along with the 13^th Olympia International Film Festival of Children and Young People, at the hospitable city of Pyrgos, Ilia Prefecture, Greece. Read more of this post

I could upload many photos and videos from Tara Mountain but nothing is compared from being there by yourself.

At 1.100 meters above the sea level , away from fumes, surrounded by trees and fresh air, I consider Mitrovac as the perfect location that could be chosen for this camp/workshop to be held. Read more of this post

Lutita, June 2010

Little Adam (the boy in the picture) will remember this summer for many years.

Lutita (Agyagfalva in Hungarian), the quiet small village of Trasylvania (Romania), where Adam lives, will excite from a multilingual “beehive” that will move in there for five days. Read more of this post

Jugend – Medienfestival of Berlin

One more festival experience was recently added to the Zizanio kids’ assets, this time in Germany!

The Greek films selected to participate and compete in Jugend – Medienfestival of Berlin were “Love in WC” by the 12 year-old Sofianos Santatsoglou and “Emma and the History Exam”, short film made during the 1^st Skopelos International Film Festival for Youth by the children in the workshops. Read more of this post

Two teachers’ interest  in cinema and the children lead them to create an institution that aspires to be a great feast of young people’s audiovisual creation, in the autonomous region of Extremadura, Spain. And up to now they have accomplished it with great success.

José Luis Muñoz Bejarano and Antonio L. Aranda Rodríguez organized the 1st  CERTAMEN AUDIOVISUAL CENTROS EDUCATIVOS EXTREMADURA, as it is named, three years ago.  Every year the event takes place in a different city of Extremadura.

During  the 3 days of the festival (from 6 to 9 of May), the children of Extremadura have the chance to present their films (created in their schools ), meet each other and also attend workshops.

CERTAMEN AUDIOVISUAL  it’s not a Festival -in a formal meaning- but a meeting. It  has a non- competitive form    and so the prize for the children is the trip and their stay. And it’s something that they really appreciate.

This year we had the chance to attend the 3rd edition of this festival, as the staff of Camera Zizanio were the only foreign guests invited. The city that hosted the festival was Don Benito, a city of 30.000 inhabitants.

Camera Zizanio’s representatives, Nikos Theodosiou (artistic director) and Nikoleta Georgakopoulou, had the chance to present the work that we do with children and also to screen five films made by children from Greece.

Antonio L. Aranda Rodríguez, Nikos Theodosiou, José Luis Muñoz Bejarano

The screening films were: “LOVE IN WC”, “THE MERMAID AND THE ICESTAR THAT FELL FROM THE SKY”,  “READY, SET, ROB”,  “EMMA AND THE HISTORY EXAM”, “TURN OVER A NEW PAGE”.

Mrs. Elena La Banda and Rosana Hilara ,artistic directors  of the student’s film festival in Mardid –MUVIES (Muestra de videos de la Comunidad de Madrid), were also invited and presented their work. (http://www.muvies.es)

Is  profound that the production of children’s films in  Extremadura, as well as the organizing of the Festival, that was excellent, is thanks to the voluntary and -of course- unpaid work of the educators.

For the success of this event was also important the help  of the «24 Fotogramas»association , a group of amateur cinematographers from Plasencia city. http://blog24fotogramas.blogspot.com/

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More information about the CERTAMEN AUDIOVISUAL CENTROS EDUCATIVOS EXTREMADURA at  http://certamenaudiovisual.educarex.es/

Camera Zizanio would like to express public thanks to our friends in Spain not only for their warm hospitality but also for their support during this difficult  situation due to the of the harsh economic measures.