ARTICLES: Young filmmakers express themselves as 'OneminutesJr' project expands its reach

Young filmmakers express themselves as ‘OneminutesJr’ project expands its reach

By Karen Cirillo

NEW YORK, USA, 9 January 2008 – After five years of running workshops in Eastern and Central Europe, UNICEF expanded the reach of the ‘OneminutesJr’ youth filmmaking project to other regions during 2007.

Operated in partnership with the One Minutes Foundation and the European Cultural Foundation, the project organizes five-day film workshops in which each participant learns camera skills, story development and production techniques.

Over the past year, more than 275 young people from more than 15 countries produced their own one-minute films through OneminutesJr workshops conducted by UNICEF. Four of the workshops used the 18th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as their theme. Participants were asked to pick one article from the CRC and visualize it in an artistic way.

The resulting films – which focused on such topics as child neglect, the right to education, disability rights, child labour and the right to play – were all posted on the 'CRC@18' website. In addition, a selection of the short films was provided to broadcasters around the world.

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