Camera Zizanio

Vrsac

The celebrations of  Camera Zizanio’s 10th Anniversary started  on Friday 23th of April, 2010 in Serbia.

The whole evening was dedicated to Camera Zizanio, in the frames of the Balkan +KFK Festival and the Plural+Festival, organized by the Media Education Centre – Belgrade, from 22 to 24 of April. The event was held at the Cultural Center of Vrsac in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.

The night started with the screening of a selection of films about Camera Zizanio that have been made from youngsters that have participated to our Festival in Pyrgos. Because, as the artistic director of Camera Zizanio Nikos Theodosiou said – it’s better when others speak about us, than we speak for us.

Then we had the screening of 11 films that have been made by youngsters from Greece and are the official participation of Greece for the Balkan+ KFK Festival. The night ended with Nikos Theodosiou’s documentary ‘Mr Leonard and the travelling cinema’.

But that weren’t the only representation of Greece in Vrsac. During those three days, Nikos Repoulios (Camera Zizanio’s colleague) run and animation workshop, along with Media Education Centre staff. The children that participated at this workshop came from the villages of Gudurica and Srediste, and most of them are refugees.

That was a specific initiative of the Media Education Centre – about matters that touch upon immigration, identity and diversity, something that it’s really important nowadays especially at the “sensitive” Balkan area.

First day of workshop

The short films created by the children that participated at the workshop, were screened during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, 24th of April. And that was a great gratification for them .

On the same night, Nikos Repoulios made a reference by presenting films produced in several projects and workshops. All those films have participated in Camera Zizanio.

Nikos Theodosiou, Miomir Rajcevic, Nikos Repoulios

During the closing ceremony, Nikos Theodosiou and Nikos Repoulios were acclaimed as honorary members of the Media Education Centre. And that was the prominence of the three creative days in the beautiful city of Voivodina, with our hospitable friends.

You can find full reportage of the events in Vrsac – that also included screenings of some very interesting films from Serbia, Iran, Sri Lanka etc- at http://roamingreporters.net/RRWP/?p=1185 and some video reports at http://roamingreporters.net/RRWP/?p=1211

The next destinations for Camera Zizanio’s presentation are… Spain (9th of May) and Hungary/Romania early in July.

We have the pleasure to inform you that two awarded films from the Greek Section of Camera Zizanio 2009, where chosen to participate in the Competition Section of Youthmediafestival, that will take part from 25 to 30 May, 2010 in Berlin. Read more of this post

Camera Zizanio ‘10 (December 11 to 18, 2010)

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 13th Olympia International Film Festival of Children and Young People, at the hospitable city of Pyrgos, Ilia Prefecture, Greece.

Films that are created trough workshops, school teams or individually can take the way to this unique Festival, where young audiovisual creations from Greece, Europe and from the rest of the world will meet…

There’s no restriction about the subject of the film… but films with fascist, racist, or pornographic matter will be excluded. There’s also no restriction about the means that have been used for the making of the film.

The films that will be selected for the competition sections should meet the following conditions:

– The films, individual or team work, must be created by children and young people up to 20 years old.

– The films should be created by children with a little help from the professionals and not the other way around.

– The duration should be up to 10 minutes.

Please note the deadline for entries: October 10, 2010.

For further information you can reach us at our offices in Athens at: +302108664470 or send us e-mail at camerazizanio@olympiafestival.gr .

As you know, Camera Zizanio is a festival of young’s people audiovisual creations that is taking place every year, the first week of December in Pyrgos, Ilia Prefecture.

But when the lights of the Closing Ceremony are turned off, Camera Zizanio doesn’t ends. Contrariwise! From this moment, a great trip starts. Especially for the awarded films. So:

• All the awarded films were screened in Athens, at cinema FILIP, from 17 to 13 December, 2009.
• The awarded films of the Greek Section, were screened at Private Educational Institution – IEK DOMI in Athens, on Tuesday 12 January 2010 and the awarded films of the European Section will be screened on Tuesday 19 January.
• A special mention to Camera Zizanio will take place during the 2nd Artfools Video Festival (1-2 March 2010) in Larissa. This festival will screen, not only the awarded films but also the films from the film workshops that took place last year during our Festival.
• A special presentation of Camera Zizanio is scheduled in Spain in the frames of the 3rd Audiovisual Contest by the Institutional Centre of Extremadura, that will take place from May 7 to 9, 2010.
• Many schools and institutions of Greece are interested in screening the awarded films of Camera Zizanio.

We will soon inform you about the following destinations of Camera Zizanio’s awarded films of, that have started their great trip throughout the world!