Camera Zizanio

The great pathways that Camera Zizanio creates for the young filmmakers this time lead to Ireland!

The organizers of the Fresh Film Festival (a Festival with films made by youngsters that is taking place for the 12th time) have informed us, that 2 of the total 5 international films… are from Greece… and are nominated for the “International Young Filmmaker Award”, presented for the first time at Fresh Film Festival in 2009.

It’s about the films “NO ENTRY” and “AND YOU CAME ALONG…!”.

Τhe first film, duration 5.35’’, is made by young refuges from Afghanistan at the Refugee Guest House in Makrinitsa and Agria, Prefecture of Magnesia. The production of the film was supported from the Greek Film Centre.

The second film, duration 5.36’’, is and individual creation of Vassia Papailiou from Pyrgos, Ilia Prefecture, that along with the direction and the editing she also composed the music. The Award Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 25th March, at Store Cinema.

However, another film from Greece gained a distinction: it’s going to be screened – out of competition – at the Closing Ceremony during the Junior awards day on Thursday 26th March. It’s about «READY, ROB, SET», an 8 minute film, made by a group of children (students of Primary Education). A film that has a unique distinctiveness… is created and completed without any help from adults!

Two weeks before the festival in Limerick, public screenings are programmed in 5 regions, Limerick, Galway, Dublin, Cork, and Leinster-Ulster. During those screenings two more films from Greece were screened among them… “THE WAY TO PERFECTION” from Mania Roumpani and “PURPLE RAYS” from Nantia Mantesi and Maria Mpenteniti.

All the above films participated at the 8th European Meeting of Young People’s Audiovisual Creation – Camera Zizanio that took place in Pyrgos, Ilia Prefecture, 2008.

For information about Fresh Film Festival you can visit http://www.freshfilmfestival.net

CAMERA ZIZANIO on ANT1 TV

On Sunday morning (December 15, 2009), the TV Channel Ant1, one of the two biggest TV Channels in Greece, had a -half hour- tribute to Camera Zizanio.

Two films that were made during this year’s workshops were screened.

The one was the film “The bank robbery” from Kalman’s Csibolya workshop and the other film “Flert” from Nikos Stamboulopoulos workshop.

Mania and Vassia were at the studio to present the festival.

Video of the Award Ceremony

Here is the video of the award ceremony of the 11th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People and the 8th Camera Zizanio which took place in Pyrgos on December 6, 2008

From Google video (resolution 320×240)

duration 74 min

and on Dailymotion

http://www.dailymotion.com/camerazizanio

(resolution 640×480)

Dear friends and colleagues,

After the last screenings of the awarded films of Camera Zizanio and Olympia Film Festival at Cine Philip in Athens, on Wednesday, December 17, the events of the 11th International Film Festival for Children and Young People and the 8th Camera Zizanio came to an end.

From my side, I would like to warmly thank those who contributed to the great success of this year’s festival. A festival that surpassed the previous ones in entries, young liveliness and enthusiasm.

First of all I would like to thank those who had traveled from distant countries so that they could be with us at this feast and gave us the chance to create, even for only a week, our own community and to experience its merits. Our friends from Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine, Lithuania, Jordan.

Also a thanks to those who couldn’t be with us, but with sending their films, making Camera Zizanio the most significant European meeting of young people’s audiovisual creation.

I would like especially to thank our friends from Hungary, Serbia and Holland for running workshops and setting off the creative aspect of the Festival. And also our good collaborators from Greece, Niko Staboulopoulo, Spyro Siaka, Niko Repoulio, Yiorgo Kourmouza, Kosta Katraki, Tasso Zerva, Panagioti Katsiahnia. Because – for yet again another year- they voluntarily passed their knowledge and experience to the children that participated at the workshops, creating all together more than 20 short films

And of course I should thank all those children that participated in the workshops, the Juries and a special thanks to “my children” – the team of Zizanio Live and the Daily news – that carried out a really difficult project.

Unfortunately, before the lights of the festival went out, another event came under the spotlight. As Sophia, a friend and collaborator of the Festival, wrote to her blog, “while our 12-year-old and 15-year-old kids were shooting with their cameras, the same time, others were shooting with a gun a kid of the same age”.

Young people from Greece and other countries are gathering for a rally to protest the murder by policemen of 15-year-old Alexis, on the 6th of December. We stand in solidarity with all the young people who are struggling for a different world, free of violence and with equal opportunities for all.

I wish that the feast days that earmark the end of the calendar year will be happy for all of you. And that the New Year will be the start of a different path to a world more human and creative… in a planet green and peaceful.

Nikos Theodosiou

Artistic director of Camera Zizanio.

Animation workshop, Pyrgos, 1-5 december 2008.

A video by Kostas Katrakis