RIGA IFF Film Club
Association Riga International Film festival ·Latvia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #000000">Experienced educators and film professionals from Norway and Latvia,RIGA IFF will create an online film club.Tailored especially for children aged 9–15 years old and available everywhere in Latvia.<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">RIGA IFF Film Club</span></em> will consist of a series of </span></span>10<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF"><span style="color: #000000"> interactive workshops in the form of pre-recorded videos. In each video,a different aspect of film and filmmaking will be covered,allowing the audience to understand how films are made and to deconstruct the content they are viewing.</span></span>The project will deliver mobile and easily accessible film viewing experience,paired with sustainable and fun educational workshop videos.By joining the film club, children and educators will gain access to a curated filmography of Norwegian family films, suitable for children aged 9-15 years old and allowing to look at the world from the perspective of their Norwegian peers,as well as addressing important topics such as relationships with family and the surrounding world,school life and speaking against bullying,self-esteem,honesty, inclusiveness,social responsibility as well as consideration towards environment among other themes.Before viewing the films, children will be hearing from film professionals,getting to peek behind the scenes of filmmaking and test their knowledge.By guiding the children through the workshop in a gamified,immersive and interactive manner,we hope to achieve that they do not feel like in a classroom,but rather like they are viewing a <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">YouTube</span></em> video along with friends–experiencing the ease,playfulness of the format,yet viewing educational content.This is important,because the added value of the <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">RIGA IFF Film club</span></em> is also its ability to draw attention to the audio-visual social media content–our aim is to provide children with more critical thinking and analysis tools,in order to help them grow into smart and conscious media consumers that are not easily manipulated by fake news.</span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
As a result of the bilateral cooperation, film programmes with Norwegian and Latvian films for children and youth were created and acquired for screening in the respective countries (Norwegian films in Latvia – online kinoklubs.rigaiff.lv, Latvian – in physical film clubs across Norway). Also, insights from the experience of Norwegian film clubs contributed to the idea implementation in Latvia; they helped to formulate that film club (online or on-site) is an effective format of informal film education, community creation. Norwegian partner's (NFK)' insights basically shaped our approach to RIGA IFF Film Club and the way we communicated it.
Project partners
- Norwegian Federation of Film Societies Donor project partner· Norway