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The Film Festival “Facing Children” THE SOCIO-CULTURAL PROJECT CHILD RIGHTS AND CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL FACING CHILDREN A PROJECT PROPOSED BY SIGNIS ROMANIA ASSOCIATION In collaboration with UNICEF In 2006 UNICEF is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946 and originally known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the UN Children's Fund has employed three approaches in discharging its mandate. For the postwar period 1946 to 1950, the "emergency needs approach" meant swift action to meet the food, clothing, and health needs of children, particularly in Europe. As Europe recovers after the war, some countries believe UNICEF's job is over, but the United Nations General Assembly extends UNICEF's task to include working with children and families throughout the developing world. In 1953 UNICEF becomes permanent part of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly reaffirms and extends UNICEF's mandate indefinitely. On the 20th of November 1959 the UN General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, focusing on children's rights to education, health care and good nutrition. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989 is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. The Convention has several "foundation principles" that underpin all other children's rights. These include: non-discrimination; best interests of the child; right to survival and development; and views of the child. Convention on the Rights of the Child A CHILD HAS: the right to live ARTICLE 6 the right to have an identity ARTICLE 8 the right to have a family ARTICLE 5 the right to a protective environment. ARTICLE 9 the right to education ARTICLE 28 the right to freedom of expression ARTICLE 13 the right to protection against any form of discrimination, ARTICLE 19 the right to freedom from child labour ARTICLE 32 the right to protection in war. ARTICLE 38 the right to freedom from discrimination ARTICLE 2 SIGNIS ROMANIA ASSOCIATION In collaboration with UNICEF IS PROPOSING A PROJECT THAT PROMOTES THE CHILD RIGHTS THROUGH MOVIES SIGNIS is a non-governmental organization that includes members from 140 countries. As the "World Catholic Association for Communication", it brings together radio, television, cinema, video, media education, Internet, and new technology professionals. SIGNIS was created in November 2001 from the merger between two organizations (Unda, for radio and television; and OCIC, for cinema and audiovisual) that were both created in 1928. Its very diversified programmes cover fields such as the promotion of films or television programmes (juries at important festivals: Cannes, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Venice, Ouagadougou…), the creation of radio, video, and television studios, production and distribution of programmes, supplying specialized equipment, training professionals… SIGNIS has consultative statutes with UNESCO, Ecosoc (United Nations in Geneva and New York), the Council of Europe. SIGNIS is officially recognized by the Vatican as a Catholic organization for communication. SIGNIS ROMANIA since its creation in 2003, has set as its goal to promote audiovisual production, to organize trainings and seminars and to represent the catholic media on national and international level. The Film Festival “Facing Children” The Film festival is part of a broader project, initiated by SIGNIS ROMANIA, consisting in the main following activities: • Artistic and documentary films festival focused on children’s rights • Workshops on video creativity for underprivileged teenagers • Trainings and debates for social assistance professionals on how to use the artistic video productions as a working tool The project, as it is now, is a development of the first edition of the film seminar “Facing Children”, organized by SIGNIS Romania during last November. Its uniqueness resides in the fact that two very attractive professional domains, apparently with no particular link between them, are matched: media (the film making) and social protection. The main objective of the project is the children’s rights’ promotion through quality film productions. SIGNIS ROMANIA in partnership with UNICEF is organizing the film festival “Facing children”, which will take place from 15th to 20th of November, in Bucharest and from 5th to 15th of December a touring festival will tour in Iaşi and Timişoara. The Festival will focus the attention of the public on children rights, through three main sections: FORUM - selection of 10 fiction films on a social theme, which won prizes in international competitions and were also awarded by SIGNIS. The screenings of the fiction films will be followed by debates with the directors and specialists in child protection. The audience will be made sensitive to the issues debated and will be stimulated to get involved in solving the problems. The public debate can become a source of pressure and of social support for the teenagers at risk. The message of the film can inform, convince and educate. RAINBOW - a competitive section of social documentaries focused on children (12 hours of competition are planned); The screenings of documentaries will be included in an international competition. The staff will elaborate the competition rules and will identify documentaries (40-50) to be included in the pre-selection. The jury of the pre-selection will be nominated, including three film reviewers or cinema people. This jury is in charge of screening all the documentaries received for the competition, out of which they will choose 12 (or 12 hours of documentary film, of different length). The staff will nominate the jury members for the competition. Three prizes will be awarded for best documentary, for best subject and the audience award. The competition will be opened and closed by screenings of international awarded documentaries such as Born into brothels (USA, 77 Oscar), The devils miner (Germany, 2005) or other. By presenting facts and information (through documentaries or features) prejudices that the audience has on a minority group can be overcome. This can also become a way to create a source of pressure and of social support for the teenagers at risk. CHILD BUSTER - a section of movies for children, where 5 fiction or animation films for children, a selection of 10 short animation-films and 3 films in retrospectives will be screened. Before each movie, the short-films produced by the teenagers during the workshops will also be screened. The screenings will be followed by different activities for children - drawing the favorite movie characters or creating picture stories on children’s rights and then learn how to animate the drawings. SIGNIS ROMANIA will collaborate with the Art Museum for implementing the activities with children. SPECIAL EVENTS DURING THE FESTIVAL: 1 Top Ten cartoons for children’s rights produced by UNICEF The program of the festival will include one or two screenings of the same movie, so that the audience should have the opportunity to watch most of them. The screenings will be programmed in different cinema halls: the cinema Hall of the French Institute in Bucharest the Studio Cinema Hollywood Multiplex Objectives: to promote children’s rights through movies and movie making; to provide opportunity for children/teenagers at risk to express themselves through photography and video productions and to make known their vision on children’s rights to the public and to the decision makers of the Romanian society; to foster the collaboration in the field of education between cineastes/cinema men, social-workers and psychologists. Target groups: marginalized children and teenagers specialists in the area of child protection NGOs and Child Protection Authorities students of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Care, Bucharest, Romanian and European cineastes Festival audience (about 2.000 people in Bucharest) Timetable: The preparation of the Film festival will start in February. The Festival will take place in Bucharest, between the 15th and the 20th of November. A symposium on film and children’s rights, 20th of November, The World Day for Children On the 20th of November, in the closure of the Festival, a symposium will be organized by SIGNIS and UNICEF. The debates are meant to focus on the better knowledge and understanding of children’s rights. Bonding the abstract and technical information to the sensitive presentation of children’s rights through movies and story telling, the organizers of the symposium want to establish pre-requisites for an efficient communication of these rights. At the debates and presentations, besides specialists and general audience, representatives of children and teenagers will also be involved. • The debates will start from the themes of the movies presented during the Festival – fiction films that won Signis or ecumenical prizes and documentaries – and they will focus on the analyze of the actual situation in Europe and especially in Romania, on how children’s rights are observed compared to how they are related in the movies; • There will be a short presentation of the situation of children’s rights in Romania, made by a representative of Child Protection Authorities; • European Cineastes - either producers or directors of the movies will be invited to share their experience, the reason of choosing a subject focusing on children’s rights and to discuss the impact of their films especially on a young audience; • The project “Facing children” will be presented
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