The 17th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People will be held from November 29 to December 17, 2014 in Pyrgos and other cities of Western Greece Region, while part of its competition program will be screened in Athens and other annual actions will take place in other areas of Greece.Around 60 films (12 feature films and 50 short films) will be screened in the 17th Festival Competition, fiction, animation and documentaries recently produced in Europe and other countries. Around 50 feature films and 100 shorts will be screened in various special screenings.A significant part of the festival is our educational activities, like cinema workshops, masterclasses, seminars and experiential workshops for teachers, educational missions, production of short films by youngsters, participation in conferences and seminars for children's films and film education etc.The festival is accompanied by a number of art events (concerts, exhibitions, kids’ workshops etc).The whole range of festival activities is presented and commented on by pupils and students through the Zizanio News website, live webcasting and our Daily News video documentation.Our annual activities are:• 14th European Meeting of Young People's Audiovisual Creation "Camera Zizanio", with the participation of around 350 films made by children and young people under 20 years old from many European countries.• CINElessons, our educational screenings for schoolchildren of all ages in Athens and other cities.• Lessons in the Dark, which are held in areas that have no access to cinema venues.It is expected that the 17th Festival will be attended by more than 20.000 people (most of them children and young people), while we expect many visitors from abroad and from within Greece.Many of our activities will be held in cooperation with other European festivals and film education organizations.