The school cinema

The school cinema

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2009/ CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC EDUCATION/
16

This project promoted interactive film presentations and used the process of film-making as a method of non-formal education for young people, in the fields of anti-discrimination, social solidarity and active citizenship. It took place between February – November 2008

The core team of the project were 4 young Komunitas members, working with pupils from 3 high-schools and 2 schools in Bucharest. Some pupils were from elite educational institutions from Bucharest, but most of the school pupils were members of poor Roma families, living in the Ferentari disadvantaged neighborhood.

The idea of the project was to connect these different groups, living in different social realities, and to create solidarity among them, by involving the young people in concerted actions.

For the first 3 months of the project, we screened films and documentaries on social issues, in each of the chosen classes, and we actively discussed these social issues – that are of a general concern for the European society, such as discrimination, economic exclusion, negative stereotypes and stigmatization of the Roma and of the poor.

The following 4 months, we selected 12 pupils who were trained as “film makers” and who created their own short social films – thus actively experiencing and, in the same time, promoting social solidarity and an active attitude against discrimination.

In the last 2 months of the project, these short films were screened and distributed, thus disseminating the concept and message of the project: mainly, that the young people need to be educated in the spirit of social justice values, such as the human rights, equal opportunities for all, mutual respect and solidarity, and that films and film making are an efficient instrument for this non-formal education/ active-learning process.

The project was financed by European Commission, through Youth in Action Programme, Action 1.2, National Initiatives.

SCOALA DIN GHETOU (film realizat de elevi ai Scolii 136 din Prelungirea Ferentari)

SCOALA VIITORULUI (film realizat de elevi ai Scolii 114 de la Eroii Revolutiei)

UN 66 SI O VIATA (film realizat de elevi ai liceului “George Cosbuc”)

URSITOARELE IN BUCURESTI (film realizat de elevi ai liceului “George Cosbuc”)

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