MICHEL children and youth film festival
The MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival is an annual film festival in Hamburg . Since 2003, children's and youth films from German and international production have been presented in the Abaton cinema every autumn on nine festival days . Numerous supporting events accompany the film screenings. There is a wide range of interactive activities, such as B. Discussions with directors, film screenings with educational material and workshops. The festival program is aimed at all Hamburg children and young people from 4 to 16 years of age. In particular, the inclusion of children from socially disadvantaged neighborhoods is a central component and guiding principle of the festival organization.
In 2019 the 17th MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival will take place from September 27th to October 5th.
history
The MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival was created in 2003 as part of the Hamburg Film Festival under the direction of Albert Wiederspiel . From then on, every autumn during the Hamburg school holidays, German and international productions for children and young people between the ages of 4 and 16 were presented in various Hamburg cinemas on nine days. Most non-German-language films are recorded on site in the cinema. This task has been taken over by professional speakers Saskia Brzyszczyk and Marion Gretchen Schmitz in recent years. The main venue has long been the Abaton cinema . The MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival took place between 2014 and 2017 during school days. This year the festival takes place again during the Hamburg school holidays. In 2017 the MICHEL celebrated its 15th anniversary under the direction of Samuel Feuerstein. Samuel Feuerstein and Johanna von Fehrn-Stender have been co-directors of the Michel Children's and Youth Film Festival since 2018.
Leitmotifs
The main concern of MICHEL is not only to show exciting and varied films for children and young people away from blockbuster cinema, but also to create shared and activating cinema moments (as opposed to passive consumption, e.g. of a Hollywood blockbuster ) and thus all children interested in film and to promote young people from the city of Hamburg. At MICHEL, foreign-language productions are recorded in German and the films themselves are presented by youth presenters. With age-appropriate moderation, films in the original language and discussions with guests such as actors and directors , the children and young people can strengthen their audiovisual media skills.
The MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival is aimed at all Hamburg children and young people, regardless of their origin or social class. Participation in the festival films and activities as a cultural and social experience is therefore made possible for a wide variety of groups regardless of their socio-economic background.
Interactive
The MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival is a hands-on film festival. In addition to discussions and workshops after the film viewing, children and young people from Hamburg can also become part of the MICHEL team. You can apply for moderation and jury before the festival begins .
Moderation
All films in the festival, with the exception of the short film program (series for minis), which require media-educational moderation, are moderated by children and young people. For the young moderators between the ages of 11 and 16, the MICHEL Film Festival offers the opportunity to develop skills and gain various experiences in the context of preparation, moderation and discussions with guests and the audience. The tasks of the child and youth moderators include a. presenting the films to the audience, interviewing directors and actors and conducting discussions with the audience. Before the festival, you will receive coaching from the MICHEL team in order to prepare you for the independent preparation and implementation of the moderation and film discussions.
jury
The seven-person jury, consisting of girls and boys between the ages of 12 and 16, is responsible for selecting the winning film within the film competition and awarding the MICHEL film prize. The jury members view all films that take part in the competition and discuss which film is the best. To do this, they develop their own criteria for evaluating the films. The jury members are accompanied by media education and supported in their independent implementation.
Michel Movie Kids
The MICHEL Movie Kids are a joint project of the MICHEL Filmfest and the Radiofüchsen , the Hamburg children's media project by Kinderglück e. V. in St. Pauli . Cooperation partners are the ear guides from MOTTE in Ottensen and Hamburg's community broadcaster TIDE 96.0 . The film festival reporters are funded by the Youth Information Center (JIZ) and private donations.
The MICHEL Movie Kids report from the MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival. The young journalists and reporters aged eight and over form a joint cinema editorial team with their own blog and podcasts. They interview directors and actors, discuss the films and take a look behind the scenes at the festival.
Award ceremony and winners
The MICHEL Film Prize has been awarded since 2003. Initially as Emil , from 2004 as Michel , it has been awarded jointly by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation and the Ian and Barbara Karan Foundation since 2013 . The prize money for the best children's and youth film is 5,000 euros. A children and youth jury will select their favorite from all the films shown in the international competition from the Michel Children and Youth Film Festival and award the prize to the best director from an age-specific point of view. The jury, consisting of Hamburg girls and boys between 11 and 16 years of age, will be provided with experienced support throughout the festival, who will work out evaluation criteria with the jury before the festival starts and prepare them for their task.
Previous winners
- The Mysterious Miss C. (Canada), directed by Richard Ciupka (2003)
- Station 4 (Spain), directed by Antonio Mercero (2004)
- The Treasure of the White Falcons (Germany), directed by Christian Zübert (2005)
- Don (Netherlands), directed by Arend Steenbergen (2006)
- Red as Heaven (Italy), directed by Cristiano Bortone (2007)
- Hey Hey, this is Esther Blueburger (Australia), directed by Cathy Randall (2008)
- Glowing Stars (Sweden), directed by Lisa Siewe (2009)
- Spork (USA), directed by JB Ghuman Jr. (2010)
- Eternal Life (Great Britain / Spain), Director and Screenplay: Gustavo Ron (2011)
- Please stay! (Netherlands), directed by Lourens Blok (2012)
- Felix (South Africa), directed by Roberta Durrant (2013)
- The Secret Mission (Denmark), directed by Martin Miehe-Renard (2014)
- Little Gangster (Netherlands), directed by Arne Toonen (2015)
- Fannys Reise (France), directed by Lola Doillon (2016)
- 1:54 (Canada), directed by Yan England (2017)
- Supa Modo (Germany / Kenya), director: Likarion Wainaina (2018)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival. Accessed April 17, 2019 (German).
- ↑ MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival. Retrieved on August 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival. Retrieved on August 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Take part in MICHEL 2018 | Filmfest Hamburg 2018. Retrieved on August 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ MICHEL MOVIE KIDS | Filmfest Hamburg 2018. Retrieved on August 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ The MICHEL MOVIE KIDS will be there again this year! - MICHEL MOVIE KIDS. Retrieved on August 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ MICHEL Children and Youth Film Festival. Retrieved on August 14, 2018 (German).
- ^ Website Filmfest Hamburg , Filmfestpreise, accessed October 12, 2018