ABCinema PLUS
Start date: Oct 1, 2015,
End date: Sep 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
ABCinema PLUS is the follow-up of ABCinema, a project co-funded by Creative Europe in 2014 aimed at the broad young audience (3-25). After a first year of activity, the project still aims to better coordinate and enhance the activities that, until one year ago, have been carried out independently by several of the most important Cinémathèques/Film Institutions across Europe.ABCinema PLUS wants to increase with 18 new titles the experimental online catalogue of Film Literacy activities and films built in the first year of the project (12 titles previously selected), allowing an exchange of best practice between peers and putting them in common in 2 different training sessions (OCT2015, JUL2016), in which each member of the group will be alternatively tutor or learner. The transferred skills, will continue to be tested in the field with specific initiatives by each partner from Oct-Feb and Mar-Jun, in correspondence with the school calendar of each country. External consultants will help the members during the exchange of experiences, in order to increase their user base, improve teacher training and to create groups of Film Literacy Ambassadors.Connections between partners and local Universities will be established, in order to guarantee scientific validation of the activities. The outcomes of ABCinema PLUS will be shared, analyzed and discussed during a final conference to be held during Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, July 2016) after the Annual FIAF Congress that in 2016 will be held in Bologna. This meeting intends to be an occasion for Archives, international stakeholders and practitioners to discuss the state of the art of European Film Heritage Literacy, best practice, major problems and which objectives Archives would like to achieve in the future in terms of Film Literacy initiatives and their outcomes. ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) will organize the event together with Cineteca di Bologna and will further disseminate the results.