FilmEd - Film Literacy Now And In The Future

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Film Literacy Now And In The Future

Film education in schools is of interest to us all. We need a generation of young people adept in understanding, interpreting and analysing an ever increasing amount of image-born information – a generation that is our potential audience tomorrow. The European Commission has identified a number of issues and obstacles that stand in the way of providing a diversified and competent film literacy education. A summary of obstacles includes: Sources of audiovisual content used in schools; The kind of content that is shown; Context – film/media studies or part of another subject; Education of teachers; Role of the audiovisual industry; Licensing systems for the use of films in education. This last part comes down to access to films and other audiovisual content often hampered by cumbersome licensing agreements that differ among the European countries.

Showing films and other audiovisual content in European schools – obstacles and best practices

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Like literature, film must be included in the school curricula, and students who live in a world dominated by images have to learn the grammar of the moving image just as they are taught the grammar of the written word.

The Consortium call upon all rights owners – producers, distributors, film institutes, film archives etc. to contribute to identify joint solutions that will provide access to new as well as heritage film from all over Europe.

José Manuel Barroso

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The FilmEd Consortium is funded by the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the Consortium, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use, which may be made of the information contained therein.


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