FilmED (Film Education for All) is an international project supported by the European Union to encourage audiovisual and film education in Central and Eastern Europe and to make it accessible to educators, cultural and educational organisations, and through them to children and young people who encounter audiovisual works at every turn.
Audiovisual and film education is one of the most important and necessary global trends of today. It reflects the enormous impact of the omnipresent audiovisual world on children, youth and society. It teaches us to understand it, to grasp the intentions of its creators and to look at it critically. It increases resistance to the elements of manipulation and develops creativity, aesthetic perception and democratic debate.
FilmED supports audiovisual and film education on two levels. The first level focuses on teaching the art, technique and history of filmmaking with an emphasis on cinematography, editing, directing, producing and scriptwriting. The second level focuses on education and training that uses film to understand social and political issues and to develop critical thinking skills.
The FilmED project aims to develop practical educational and training tools that fill a gap in film education within the school curriculum. These tools can be used by educators, teachers and educational organisations or institutions. Through the project, we also want to reach students in Central and South-Eastern Europe, broaden their knowledge of European cinema and enable their deeper understanding of the social and political context, as well as encourage cultural exchange and promote European values.
Between 2024 and 2025, in cooperation with Czech and international partners from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Northern Macedonia, we are analysing and bringing together the best existing European methodologies for film education and creating our own methodologies for working with films that teachers can implement in their daily practice. To support this effort, an interactive website is being developed to collect the forthcoming materials and to provide practical support and advice to all interested parties. At the same time, we are implementing our own film education activities for all those interested in audiovisual and film education who want to teach (with) film, experience or directly start with film and audiovisual education.
Within the framework of FilmED we organize the Film Academy: Teach (with) Film for educators, filmmaking workshops for children and youth, meetings of foreign and Czech educators and experts on the topic of film and audiovisual education and many other activities.
For more information about our activities in the project, follow the programme of the Kino Kavalírka or Young Film Fest 2024.
FilmED is supported by the Creative Europe programme.
PROJECT PARTNERS:
Goethe-Institut e.V. (Czech Republic)
krutón, z. s. (Czech Republic)
Centrum Kultury Filmovej im Andrzeja Wajdy (Poland)
National Film Institute Hungary (Hungary)
National Institution Cinematheque Of Republic Of North Macedonia (North Macedonia)
Kino Úsmev (Slovakia)
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