EVENTS / CALL FOR ENTRIES: Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival 2012

CALL FOR ENTRIES 2012

Participate in the 16th edition of the BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL FESTIVAL in November 2012.

We invite directors, screenwriters, producers, and students to submit their audiovisuals for all ages. Any type of audiovisual will be entered into pre-selection with photochemical or electronic media support. The audiovisuals competing for the UNICEF prize should contain certain humanitarian values which favor democratic coexistence and growth of social citizenry, especially directed toward children or about childhood.

THEME: Children and youth - values that favor coexistence - all genres

-Productions for children and youth, productions about children and/or those that deal with childhood issues
-Productions made by children or teens in a framework of media literacy
-Productions made by students in audiovisual schools or universities
-Productions of general subject matter, for all audiences, that contain values and favor coexistence.

As in previous years, we are particularly interested in audiovisuals and that not only entertain but also educate and teach. The prestigious HUMANITARIAN and CREATIVE prize categories will be awarded.

Included this year:
-Professional Area, organized by the Association of Audiovisual Professionals of Catalunya (CPAC)
-Visit to the CaixaForum Mediatheque and CaixaForum exhibits
-Workshop and feature films in the afternoon.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 31, 2012

To register online and obtain more information about the rules and regulations of the Festival visit our website: www.oeti.org

Please submit audiovisuals to the following address so that they arrive no later than June 30, 2012 for the preselection:

Sana Laakioui - Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival
Aragon, 290-292, 5O B
08009 Barcelona SPAIN

And if you would like to program a visit to the Festival with a group of students:
call: 34 93 488 1914
email: fiab@oeti.org

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival

CALL FOR ENTRIES 2011

The Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival (FIAB) would like to invite directors of all ages to submit children and youth productions and participate in the 15th edition to be held in November, 2011.

We are interested in documentaries, animations, TV programmes, series and video-games from around the world, which not only entertain but also ideally educate and form the young viewer by promoting values that favor coexistence, respect, solidarity and friendship. Since this year's theme is music, we are especially interested in materials linked to it and focusing strongly on the musical background.

Genre: Children and youth - All public

* Productions for children & young people about children's issues.

* Productions made by young children within a framework of media literacy.

* Productions made by students from schools or universities.

* Productions for all ages, containing values that promote coexistence.

This is a unique media and educational opportunity for filmmakers and production companies from all over the world to showcase their work in Spain and share it with enthusiastic young audiences and media professionals. Every year we collaborate with educators so that groups of school children get to see a wide range of international films that are 90 minutes or less, that they may not otherwise be able to access. We request that films that are not in Spanish be subtitled in Spanish or English.

As with previous years, there is no entry fee and we offer the prestigious UNICEF PRIZE and CREATIVE PRIZE.

Following up last year’s edition, where our efforts to launch new activities in the Festival met with success and were very much enjoyed by an enthusiastic audience, we will embrace them in FIAB 2011 as well.

These new activities consist of:

- Audience Award - Public Mention, where young viewers have the opportunity to vote for their favourite film.

- Professional area, organized by the Catalonian Association of Audiovisual Professionals (CPAC) that awards the Professional Mention.

- Video games to be played every morning. Participants are encouraged to play non-violent and educational games with values to be learned on PCs and Xboxes in the Art, Music and Media documentation Library of CaixaFòrum.

- Guided visit to the Media Library of CaixaFòrum, located just in front of the CaixaForum Auditorium.

To fill out an inscription form and for more information on the rules and regulations, please check out our website. You can copy the inscription form and send it by email to fitb@oeti.org along with a photo for the catalog or fill the form in directly on the website.

European Observatory on Children’s Television (OETI)

www.oeti.org

Doina Bird

CALL FOR ENTRIES / EVENTS: International Audiovisual Festival of Barcelona

CALL FOR ENTRIES FIAB 2011

The International Audiovisual Festival of Barcelona (FIAB) would like to invite directors of all ages to submit children and youth productions and participate in the 15th edition to be held in November, 2011.

We are interested in documentaries, animations, TV programmes, series and video-games from around the world, which not only entertain but also ideally educate and form the young viewer by promoting values that favor coexistence, respect, solidarity and friendship.

Genre: Children and youth - All public
* Productions for children & young people about children's issues.
* Productions made by young children within a framework of media literacy.
* Productions made by students from schools or universities.
* Productions for all ages, containing values that promote coexistence.

This is a unique media and educational opportunity for filmmakers and production companies to showcase their work in Spain and share it with enthusiastic young audiences and media professionals. Every year we collaborate with educators so that groups of school children get to see a wide range of international films that are 90 minutes or less, that they may not otherwise be able to access. We request that films that are not in Spanish be subtitled in Spanish or English.

As with previous years, there is no entry fee and we offer the prestigious UNICEF PRIZE and CREATIVE PRIZE.

Following up last year´s edition, where our efforts to launch new activities in the Festival met with success and were very much enjoyed by an enthusiastic audience, we decided to embrace them in FIAB 2011 as well.

These new activities consist of:

- Audience Award - Public Mention, where the young viewers had the opportunity to vote and to choose their favourite film.

- Professional area, organized by the Catalonian Association of Audiovisual Professionals (CPAC) that awards the Professional Mention.

- Video games to be played every morning. Participants were encouraged to play non-violent and educational games with values to be learned.

- Guided visit to the Art, Music and Media documentation Library of CaixaFòrum, located just in front of the CaixaForum Auditorium.

To fill out an inscription form and for more information on the rules and regulations, please check out our website.
European Observatory on Children´s Television (OETI)
www.oeti.org

Doina Bird
fitb@oeti.org

OPPORTUNITIES / EVENTS / SEMINARS: Young Media Makers Preach and Practice Peaceful Journalism (GEORGIA, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, BELARUS, BIH, GERMANY, ITALY, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, POLAND, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SPAIN)

Kobuleti, Georgia, 19-26 June 2010

European Youth Press – network of young media makers in cooperation with Academy for Peace and Development invites you to participate in the seminar “Young Media Makers Preach and Practice Peaceful Journalism”. The implementation of the seminar is possible due to kind support of the European Youth Foundation, Council of Europe.

The aim of the seminar is to explore what peace journalism is and how it can be used by young journalists to foster peace building and conflict transformation.

The seminar will consider the ways in which peace and conflict transformation is to be represented in the media and will discuss the the role of young media makers in engaging in promoting peace building, conflict prevention and transformation. The participants will not only get a better comprehension of the peaceful journalism concept, but also will have the opportunity to put into practice their freshly gained skills. In addition to that, the seminar will tackle the issues such as Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue as major factors in supporting stability and intercultural understanding in Europe. The workshops will be led by CoE trainers’s pool and experienced journalists in field of peace and conflict reporting.

Good to know:

Who can participate: 22 young people (age 18-27) interested in peace journalism, journalists, bloggers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Spain.

Where: Kobuleti (20 km north of Batumi), Georgia.

When: 19 – 26 June 2010

Costs: Accommodation and food will be fully covered by organisers. Travel costs – participants will be reimbursed up to 200 euro upon presentation of relevant proofs.

Participation fee: 100 euro

If you are interested send your CV + letter of motivation (max 200 words) to Andrei Ioniță ( a.ionita@youthpress.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) until Sunday 9 May 2010. Mention in the email subject: “Application Peace Journalism”

Applicants will be informed about the selection decision on 11 May and will be asked to confirm their participation in the seminar by 17 May.

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EVENTS: Youth & New European Media meeting in Spain, 7th - 10th May 2009

Youth & New European Media meeting in Spain, 7th - 10th May 2009

Valencian village ‘La Pobla de Vallbona’ to host the first ever European journalism festival. Young people, professionals and experts in communciation from all over Europe will get together in La Pobla de Vallbona, Valencia, Spain from the 7th to the 10th of May 2009. The event will explore the new ways and means that Europe is being portrayed by the media and the role of the new young reporter in this field.

In honour of Europe Day, the County Council of la Pobla de Vallbona along with Europe’s most distinctive Web TV for young people, Europocket TV, is organising the international event. Although ‘Youth and New European Media’ is especially for journalism, communication, arts and political students, it is open to professionals and experts or anyone interested in new media and the Internet. The only criteria is that you adhere to the motto, “Take the
initiative, do it yourself”.

The hands-on event will put the following questions to the floor... What is the role of new media in constructing Europe? How can clear, comprehensive information be communicated? Is there actually such thing as “European media”? What role does the young European journalist play? The debates will be supported by the European Commission in Spain, the Valencian government, numerous Spanish universities and the ‘European Youth Press”.

Lisbeth Kirk (euobserver.com), Greg Milam (Sky News), Wilfried Rütten (European Journalist Centre), Sergio Cantone (Euronews), Suzanne Henn, (Deutche Welle) and Anna Suleskwa, (President of the European Youth Press) are just a few of the media experts that will join the round table and answer questions.

Europocket TV is a unique platform of audio-visual contents on the European Union and it’s institutions. It also deals with topics that are interesting for young people like culture, solidarity, environment, travel and entertainment. http://www.europocket.tv.

The first ever Web TV for young Europeans came about at the end of 2006 with the support of the European Parliament. Almost three years later, it still broadcasts from it’s modest studio in La Pobla de Vallbona.
Apart from a daily news show in English, French and Spanish, Europocket TV offers diverse reports that are filmed all over Europe and that capture the daily life of European society. Europocket TV was an official media partner of the European year of Intercultural Dialogue in 2008 and has participated in many important events all over Europe.

For more information and to sign up:
EUROPOCKET TV
Felix R. de la Fuente, 3
46185 La Pobla de Vallbona
Phone: +34 961661774
Skype: europocket.mac
Facebook: Youth and New European Media
contact@neweuropeanmedia.eu

WEBSITES: www.neweuropeanmedia.eu / www.europocket.tv

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Barcelona International Television Festival 2009

CALL FOR ENTRIES FITB 2009

DEADLINE FOR INSCRIPTION: May 31, 2009

We invite directors of all ages to submit your children and youth productions and participate in the 13th edition of the Barcelona International Television Festival (FITB) to be held November 10- 12, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 13 p.m. and from 15p.m. to 18p.m., with the closing ceremony the 13th.

As always we are interested in documentaries, animations, TV programmes and series from around the World that form, entertain and educate. There is no entry fee and we offer the prestigious UNICEF PRIZE and CREATIVE PRIZE. Screenings incluye productions the Audiovisual Service of the Department of Education of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and the SHOWCASE OF NEWS BULLETINS, COMMERCIALS AND FICTION VIDEOS from the Blanquerna School, Ramón LLull University.

This is a good opportunity for filmmakers and production companies to showcase their work in Spain and share it with enthusiastic young audiences along with media professionals. Every year we collaborate with educators so that groups of school children get to see a wide range of international films that are 60 minutes or less, that they may not otherwise be able to access. We request that films that are not in Spanish be subtitled in Spanish or English.

Genre: Children and youth - All public

Films and productions made for children and youth

Films and productions about children and/or dealing with childhood

Films made by children, youth and audiovisual students.

To fill out an inscription form and for more information on the rules and regulations, please check out our websites.
http://www.oeti.org
www.oeti.org

The 2008 entry form is up at Festival>Entry form on our Web. The deadline is May 31.Please send your films (to arrive no later than June 30, 2009) for pre-selection to:

Doina Bird
Festival Internacional de Televisón de Barcelona
Aragón, 290-292, 5º
08009 Barcelona ESPAÑA

And if you would like to confirm attendance, send an email to fitb@oeti.org or call 93 488 1914 or 93 162 6756 so we can program your participation in the Festival.