The Kinodvor City Cinema presents the Reflexion on development of film education at Kinodvor, which explains the essence of the Kinobalon film educational programme – its beginnings, context, and mostly work methods and their goals.

Kinobalon, a programme for children and youth, is a film education programme at Kinodvor City Cinema. Programmes of such kind are increasingly developing in Slovenia, and the question of professional foundations, goals and principles in our work is relevant. The Reflexion on development of film education at Kinodvor by authors Petra Slatinšek and Barbala Kelbl, who also plan the Kinobalon programme at Kinodvor, has been launched in the seventh year of City Cinema activity, which triggered a rebirth of film culture for children and youth as well as film educational activity in the Slovenian cinematography. The Reflexion explains the essence of the Kinobalon film educational programme – its beginnings, context, and mostly work methods and their goals. Among other activities it focuses on international collaboration and European directives of film education.

The issue of film education system and inclusion in to school curricula is current also on the European level. It is from last year it is possible to apply the film education programmes to the Creative Europe – Audience Development programme tender. In the previous year the British Film Institute (BFI) was a successful candidate and it invited the City Cinema Kinodvor to collaborate on the Framework for Film Education project. The partners of the project are also the French cinematheque, La Cinémathèquefrançaise, the Austrian Filmmuseum, the Danish film institute, the Polish film institute, the Swedish film institute, the Portugal University of Algarve, the German Vision Kino, the University of Rome, the Irish film institute, etc. The project intends to design foundations, directives and most importantly goals of film education on the European level and suggest measures to be taken to improve its accessibility. The created document will serve as fundamental professional reference to film educators, and a possible starting point in designing individual national cultural strategies and policies of the area. The European Commission will be aware of the document and will have an opportunity to include the directives into the assessment basis for the Creative Europe tender. The document will be publicly presented and published in June 2015 in Paris.

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