Camera Zizanio

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!